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Pro-life Musgrave group attacks Obama for rescuing NH family-planning services

By | 09.22.11 | 11:26 am

Anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List this week launched a video campaign against President Obama based on the administration’s move to shore up family planning services in New Hampshire. Social conservatives on the state’s executive council earlier stripped $1.8 million in federal funding from Planned Parenthood affiliates there. New Hampshire officials informed the Obama administration that, in failing to provide key women’s health services, the state was violating federal law.

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Perry criticized by family-planning friends and foes on Texas funding, HPV policy

By | 09.10.11 | 6:01 am

Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the lobbying arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), has launched a campaign targeting Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who has been pegged by many media outlets as the current leader in the race for the Republican nomination for the 2012 presidential election.

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The war on women in the U.S.

By | 07.19.11 | 5:50 am

In recent months we’ve become well aware of how U.S. House Republicans are trying to decimate services of vital importance to women. Don’t take your eyes off your local statehouse, though: There, legislators have pushed the war on women equally far, cracking down on reproductive rights and cutting funding for education

Americans United for Life President Charmaine Yoest (at podium) speaks at preliminary hearing to explore investigation of Planned Parenthood, July 14, 2011. House members from left to right: Reps. Steve Chabot, Diane Black, Renee Ellmers, John Fleming and Jean Schmidt (photo: Sofia Resnick/The American Independent).

House members say Planned Parenthood needs to be investigated, defunded but offer no definite plans

By | 07.15.11 | 6:49 am

Less than a week after conservative law firm Americans United for Life (AUL) sent U.S. House members a lengthy report alleging 20 years of federal-funding violations committed by Planned Parenthood Federation of America, at least eight representatives — most of them freshmen — have shown interest in potentially launching an investigation.

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Planned Parenthood rebuts claims it misleads women, calls AUL report ‘ideologically driven’

By | 07.11.11 | 6:44 am

As The American Independent previously reported, anti-abortion rights group Americans United for Life (AUL) released Thursday a report of allegations against Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), some of which date back several years. Accompanying the group’s findings is a call for Congress to begin a taxpayer-funded investigation on Planned Parenthood. AUL has accused Planned Parenthood of misusing federal funds; knowingly violating state and federal laws; and misleading women about abortion, fetal development and emergency contraceptive drugs.

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New Hampshire Republicans vote to defund Planned Parenthood family planning

By | 07.08.11 | 11:12 am

Critics of the 2011 Republican battle against abortion on Capitol Hill and in capitals around the country have said it’s about more than abortion. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette, chair of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, told the Colorado Independent this spring that the GOP push had exposed a large percentage of Republican lawmakers as anti-contraception and opposed to family planning. That assertion is supported by the vote and related discussion in New Hampshire last week that rejected a $1.8 million state contract for Planned Parenthood’s family planning and disease prevention and treatment services. The contract had been in place for decades.

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Anti-abortion group delivers report to Congress targeting Planned Parenthood

By | 07.08.11 | 6:33 am

Image by: Matt MahurinConservative policy group Americans United for Life’s stated plans to help defund Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) one state at a time were amplified Thursday with the release of a report citing supposed violations of federal-funding rules by the national family planning and abortion provider. AUL is calling for Congress to launch an investigation against Planned Parenthood, with the hopeful outcome of stripping the organization of all public money now and forever.

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As president, Ron Paul would veto funding for Planned Parenthood and ‘family planning schemes’

By | 06.24.11 | 7:21 am

GOP presidential contender Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has taken a further step proving his anti-abortion-rights commitment since signing the Susan B. Anthony List’s “2012 Pro-Life Presidential Leadership Pledge.”

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Indiana Planned Parenthood battle highlights what DeGette, Pelosi see as war on family planning

By | 06.22.11 | 1:17 pm

Indiana Republican lawmakers stripped funding from Planned Parenthood last month and in doing so made contraception unaffordable for thousands of Medicaid patients. The battle over the law in Indiana is another high-profile example of the way Republicans, in seeking to pass sweeping anti-abortion bills, have unveiled a longstanding antipathy among a growing bloc of Republican lawmakers to the kind of basic family planning that the vast majority Americans have come to embrace instinctively as a modern-world human right, according to Colorado Congresswoman Diana DeGette and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

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VIDEO: Anti-abortion-rights group asks for money in order to defund Planned Parenthood ‘once and for all’

By | 06.08.11 | 6:21 am

National anti-abortion-rights policy group Americans United for Life emailed supporters Monday announcing a new strategy in the form of a video to try “once and for all” to defund Planned Parenthood, which AUL CEO and President Charmaine Yoest refers to as, “the nation’s abortion super-provider,” “an abortion mega-provider” and “the nation’s No. 1 anti-life business.”

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