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Filed in: Planned Parenthood | by Matthew Clark | 12:54 PM May. 14, 2012
Defunding Planned Parenthood Defunds Abortion
A little over a week ago, Arizona joined a growing number of states in defunding America’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. As a report by American’s United for Life noted: House Bill 2800, signed by Governor Jan Brewer . . . , provides that neither the state nor any political subdivision of the state “may . . . enter into a contract with or make a grant to” abortion providers for family-planning services. Further, “subject to any applicable requirem... Continue Reading
Filed in: Planned Parenthood | by Matthew Clark | 2:11 PM May. 8, 2012
$13.5 Million in Taxpayer Funding Back to Planned Parenthood
The state of Texas passed a law preventing Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas from receiving taxpayer dollars. Planned Parenthood successfully sued to block this law but a federal appeals court issued an emergency stay, allowing the state to defund one of Planned Parenthood’s largest affiliates. On Friday, a federal appeals court again allowed taxpayer dollars to go to the abortion giant. Unfortunately, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the emergency ... Continue Reading
Filed in: ObamaCare | by Nathanael Bennett | 3:50 PM Mar. 13, 2012
ObamaCare’s Abortion Funding Rule Finalized
Despite President Obama’s empty rhetoric to the contrary, a recently finalized Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rule makes clear that ObamaCare will use tax dollars to fund abortion. Remember when President Obama told us that the Pitts/Stupak Amendment should be rejected because his Executive Order would prevent abortion from being a part of ObamaCare? We told you then that not only was an Executive Order insufficient to replace a strong statutory protection like the Pitts/St... Continue Reading
Filed in: ObamaCare | by Matthew Clark | 4:26 PM Jan. 18, 2012
How ObamaCare uses Taxpayer Money to Pay for Abortions
From the very beginning we have been telling you that ObamaCare not only greatly expands access to but provides taxpayer funding for abortion. Here are the facts. Expanded access to abortion through ObamaCare ObamaCare requires every American to purchase health insurance, it requires every state to establish health insurance exchanges, and it dramatically expands Medicaid. Each of these – private health insurances programs, exchanges, and Medicaid – can, and in some case are requir... Continue Reading