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DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz spent her Labor Day weekend sending out a fundraising e-mail. From the start, beginning with the title, the message took a less than classy tone. The subject line read, “This pisses me off.” While the tone and language weren’t very classy, Wasserman Schultz – after discussing how much she loves fall – revealed that the reason for her anger was due to Republicans and their efforts to defund Planned Parenthood. The Daily Caller has a copy of the e-mail. The relevant part read: But Republicans in Congress are dead-set on rolling back the progress that...

Seven Catholic colleges have responded to a Cardinal Newman Society report by removing or editing website pages that indicated links between the colleges and Planned Parenthood. But more than three weeks after the report exposed scandalous associations with the nation’s largest abortion provider, most other colleges cited in the report have taken no action to correct the problem.“We communicated with each of the colleges and urged them to dissolve any relationship with Planned Parenthood,” said Cardinal Newman Society President Patrick Reilly. “The colleges that did take action deserve our gratitude, and we pray that they will take steps to prevent...

During today’s Congressional hearing over Planned Parenthood’s sale of aborted babies and their body parts, pro-life Congressman Trent Frank criticized pro-abortion President Barack Obama. Franks said the president has yet to utter a single word in condemnation of Planned Parenthood’s sale of aborted babies for research. Today was the first hearing in Congress’ multi-committee investigation of the Planned Parenthood abortion business after a series of nine videos exposed how it is potentially illegally selling aborted babies and profiting from the sales. Here’s a portion of Congressman Franks’ remarks and a video of his very passionate and compelling comments: Have we...

A Rolling Meadows woman has accused Office Depot of discriminating against her Roman Catholic faith after employees told her running copies of an anti-abortion prayer violated company policy. Karen Denning, a spokeswoman for Office Depot, said company policy prohibits "the copying of any type of material that advocates any form of racial or religious discrimination or the persecution of certain groups of people. It also prohibits copying any type of copyrighted material." "The flier contained material that advocates the persecution of people who support abortion rights," Denning said.

Wisconsin lawmakers decided Wednesday to move forward with a proposal banning fetal tissue research within the state. The ban is aimed at abortion providers, particularly Planned Parenthood, which has been harvesting organs from aborted babies and selling them to researchers. Since July, the Center for Medical Progress has released almost a dozen videos detailing Planned Parenthood’s organ-trafficking scheme. The abortion giant has been taking organs from babies for cash, sometimes without gaining informed consent from their mothers for permission first, which has raised serious ethical questions. While the ban only affects researchers in the state, it would be a step...

The most recent video from The Center for Medical Progress continues to contradict Planned Parenthood’s claims that the money they receive for harvested fetal body parts is nothing more than reasonably allowed ‘compensation’ for things like storage and shipping. In the full footage, Perrin Larton, head of procurement services for Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR), admits to the prospective buyer that while ABR does not consent patients, their own technicians do the rest of the work… (ABR) “We are totally not involved in the clinical work at all. The clinic does all the consenting. The only thing we do is after...

One of the most infuriating things about the abortion debate in this country is that the pro-abortion side is championed by such stupid and intellectually dishonest arguments. Granted, that’s not as infuriating as all the dead unborn children, but it’s still plenty infuriating. One of the prime examples of this is the completely absurd argument that health related abortion regulations are somehow detrimental to the health of women. Mother Jones (of course) takes up this argument in an article with the screaming headline, “The War on Women is Over – And Women Lost.” Like all such articles, this one is...

The first in a series of hearings about Planned Parenthood kicked off Wednesday in Capitol Hill, with Republicans and Democrats running in circles over whether or not the organization did anything wrong, failing to reach any common ground. “No reliable evidence demonstrates that Planned Parenthood violated the law,” said John Conyers, D-Mich., ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, which called today’s hearing. Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said the committee is investigating not only whether or not Planned Parenthood broke any existing laws, but also whether there are gaps in current laws that need to be filled. “There are questions regarding...

The ghost of Brittany Maynard came back for yet another haunting Wednesday when the California Assembly voted to allow physician-assisted suicide by a vote of 43-34. After having lost in the California Senate back in June due to efforts largely from the Roman Catholic Church, the merchants of death simply regrouped and returned to the lower house of the legislature to approve the End of Life Option Act. With Wednesday's vote locked up, the bill will now move on to the state Senate once again, where it must pass two committees before advancing to the Senate floor for a vote....

(CNSNews.com) – Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger opposed the Catholic Church for decades because of its moral teachings and its theology in general, to the point that in 1960, when John F. Kennedy, a Catholic, ran for president, Sanger said if he were elected, she would “find another place to live.”Sanger (1879-1966), in her many writings and speeches, frequently attacked the Catholic Church, describing it as among the “arch-enemies to hinder the progress of enlightenment” and determined to destroy America’s “liberties” and establish its own “rules & dominion.”  In early July 1960, when then-Senator John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) was about...

Abortion rights activists have long cheered Barack Obama's presidency as a "historic victory for women's health." But the reality has been rather different. Since 2010, getting an abortion in America has become significantly harder. States passed a record 205 abortion restrictions between 2011 and 2013, more than the entire 30 years prior. As a result, many abortion providers are closing down. One survey, from pro-life group Operation Rescue, estimates that 87 separate locations ceased to perform surgical abortions in 2013. These changes are a clear result of pro-life mobilization in the Obama era. ... There's a clear catalyst behind the...

September 8, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- There was always a risk in the approach taken by the Center for Medical Progress to nail Planned Parenthood to the wall: that is, to prove, using undercover video footage, that Planned Parenthood is breaking the law by illegally profiting from the sale of aborted fetal tissue. The risk was that in emphasizing the question of the legality of Planned Parenthood’s practices, attention might be distracted from the far more pressing question of whether what Planned Parenthood is doing is right. I perfectly understand why CMP took the approach it did, and for all I...

The Center for Medical Progress released undercover videos and documentation showing how people at the highest levels of Planned Parenthood are negotiating the sale of body parts and adjusting the way they perform abortions so the body parts are more accessible. The first undercover footage shows senior director of medical services, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, describing how Planned Parenthood charges fees to transfer body parts of aborted fetuses donated for research. Nucatola is shown sipping on wine and chomping on a salad as she callously boasts about getting intact hearts and livers and even skulls for a human biologics company. Read...

FULL TITLE: Pregnancy Test That Can Predict Down Syndrome, Miscarriage, And Twins May Be Available In Just 2 Years The days of wondering what to expect when you’re expecting may soon be over. Researchers in the UK are working on eliminating much of the mystery surrounding pregnancies by developing a mail-in test that can predict everything from whether or not a couple is having twins to if an unborn child may have Down syndrome, using nothing more than a urine sample. MAP Diagnostics is the company behind the first-of-its-kind pregnancy test that would reveal intricate details of both a mother...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), who is taking a lead role in a campaign to end taxpayer support for Planned Parenthood, will send Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a letter next week urging him not to schedule a vote on or help push legislation that gives federal money to the organization. The letter, which is in draft form and circulating around the Senate for signatures, is Cruz's first official action against the organization in the new Senate session, which starts Tuesday. It comes as McConnell said this week that Congress won't be able to stop government money from going to Planned...

The Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that has been linked in a federal courtroom to a domestic terror attack, now has added pro-life activists to its expanding list of targets, smearing the citizen journalists who are exposing Planned Parenthood’s sale of baby body parts as “extremists.”

An early morning blaze at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Washington state was arson, according to fire investigators. Pullman Fire Department investigator Chris Wehrung said on Friday afternoon that the cause is arson, but a joint task force is still investigating and he declined to release other details. The fire that occurred shortly after 3.30am on Friday heavily damaged a clinic in the college town of Pullman Fire officials said there was extensive fire, smoke and heat damage to the front of the building, which was deemed structurally unsafe because of the damaged beams. Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Tanya Riordan told...

This week, the State Department released emails from Hillary Clinton’s private server and one was from a Planned Parenthood executive praising her for promoting abortion and urging her to speak out against a measure in Kenya to include in its new constitution language asserting that “life begins at conception.” CNS News reports that in 2009 Clinton received an email from Planned Parenthood’s vice president of public policy and advocacy, Laurie Rubiner, and she told her she was her “personal hero.” She thanked Clinton on behalf of their organization and asked her to speak against the Kenya initiative in her next...

Planned Parenthood and its supporters in the media are working extra hard to cover the truth about their “business” dealings after the recent undercover videos by the Center for Medical Progress. The left fears nothing more than exposure. The videos, showing how Planned Parenthood haggled over the price of aborted babies’ hearts, lungs, brains, and other body parts, are a crude reminder of the evil that is the abortion industry. But the videos are not about abortion. Neither are they about “reproductive rights” or politics or video editing. The left wants to make it about that and any other thing...

CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH, September 1, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- After years of decreases, the number of abortion businesses is increasing, at least by one, in Ohio. Just south of Cleveland, Cuyahoga Falls is the location for a new abortion center, led by abortionist David Burkons. Chemical abortions began last year; this summer, Burkons began surgical abortions. The facility was formerly called Capital Care Network, and Burkons did abortions there, until it was shut down by the Ohio Department of Health for many health and safety violations, and at the same time shut down by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency for drug...