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The former president of Planned Parenthood told a crowd of impressionable young college students Thursday that abortion is essential to gender equality. The Cornell Daily Sun reports Gloria Feldt, who led the abortion chain in the 1990s and early 2000s, spoke at Cornell University during an event sponsored by Cornell Hillel. The title of her talk was “3 Truths About Sex, Power and Leadership.” Like many pro-abortion feminists, Feldt claimed that abortion (women’s legal ability to kill their unborn babies) is empowering for women as they compete with men for power. “Sex is about power, more than anything else,” Feldt...

In what would be a day of reflection for feminists everywhere, Planned Abortion-hood saw its leader set off for greater things. Gloria Feldt, who helped shape the organization into the mean green killing machine it is today, has left the multi-million dollar a year “non-profit” for bigger and better things. We just hope those plans don’t include starting “Planned Retirement-hood.” Oh, you are 80 now are you? Do you mind if I stick this needle here? Sorry we were 8 decades late.Feldt, who helped popularize ‘death by vacuum’ is well on her way to becoming a feminist legend. On John...

(CNSNews.com) - Pro-life organizations cheered the announcement that Gloria Feldt is resigning as president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, with one activist stating Friday he thinks "babies are very happy" over the change. During her eight years as head of the nation's largest abortion provider, Feldt "presided over more abortions than any other Planned Parenthood president and we are happy to see her go," said Jim Sedlak, executive director of Stop Planned Parenthood (STOPP) International, a subdivision of the American Life League. Sedlak noted that during Feldt's tenure, "Planned Parenthood killed 1,370,000 babies" and "was responsible for more...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- It's a Georgia peach of an idea.Politicos in Washington and Atlanta have the cell towers humming over the news that GOP wunderkind Ralph Reed may make a 2006 run for statewide office in Georgia. Reed, who burst on the national scene in the mid-1980s as executive director of the College Republican National Committee, is considered the political brain behind Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition and the march to power of the Georgia GOP, which rolled over the state's Democrat establishment like Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman. Friends say his run for lieutenant governor of Georgia in the...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 - Democratic leaders say their party needs to de-emphasize the issue of abortion rights, concerned that Republicans have hurt the Democratic Party by portraying it as an uncompromising champion of abortion. In interviews and public appearances since Election Day, Democratic officials have said that the party should open its doors to abortion opponents and that candidates should make abortion a less central focus of future campaigns. Party leaders said they were not abandoning their fundamental support for abortion rights, but said Democrats should consider accepting some restrictions that enjoy popular support - like parental notification when teenagers...

Newsweek's cover story on Fetal Rights for the June 9 issue is already causing quite a stir among abortion supporters. A Newsweek Poll shows that 46% of Americans believe that life begins at conception, while an additional 12% believes that it begins at implantation. Only 11% believe that life begins at birth, which means that 89% of Americans would acknowledge that the present abortion laws allow for at least some legalization of murder. The Laci Peterson story has popularized the question of fetal rights, since Scott Peterson has been charged with two murders, and the Unborn Victims of Violence Act,...