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CNSNews.com) – Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) urged Secretary of State John Kerry this week to look into what she says is the misapplication of 42-year-old legislation that bans U.S. foreign aid from being spent on abortions. “There has been, not on the part of the administration, but an issue surrounding the misinterpretation of the Helms Amendment that prohibits the use of funds ‘for the performance of abortion as a method of family planning,’” she told Kerry during a House Appropriations’ subcommittee hearing on Wednesday. “But it’s been incorrectly implemented, essentially to become a total ban on...

It has become pretty reliable for conservative voters. Dailykos.com speaks the thought process of the liberal nearly as good as the droning pathologicals at Media Matters For America. The 'Kos' always puts its thought process right out there on the front page for all to see. Its daily readers, who follow like the good robots they are, should be joined by conservatives in reading what the liberals believe in. And yes, it is all about what they believe in. They believe there is no such issue as 'life'. That issue is about 'choice'. (And here the founding fathers are easily...

Planned Parenthood Los Angeles (PPLA) has threatened to file a lawsuit against Lilia Rose, a student journalist at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The suit stems from an undercover investigation in which Rose recorded herself going into a PPLA clinic in Santa Monica, Calif., posing as a 15-year-old pregnant girl accompanied by her 23-year-”old boyfriend.” A 23-year old having sex with a 15-year old would be considered statutory rape. In addition, the clinic would be required to report an abortion provided to a 15-year old. Rose covertly video taped the encounter. The tape revealed that she was advised...

Lila Rose, an 18-year-old student from UCLA who recorded herself receiving controversial advice from a Planned Parenthood Los Angeles (PPLA), was on the “O’Reilly Factor” news program Thursday night. While on the show, Rose explained the problems within Planned Parenthood – the leading provider of surgical abortion – and spoke about how they had threatened to file a lawsuit against her covert video which was posted on YouTube. “Lila Rose is a hero for her courage in exposing the child sex protection racket that so common today at our nation’s abortion clinics,” said Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, in...

(CNSNews.com) - A teenager in Ohio has sued Planned Parenthood affiliates in Cincinnati, alleging that when she sought an abortion, its employees failed to report that she was a victim of incest. The lawsuit comes at a time Planned Parenthood in Los Angeles is fighting back against a pro-life activist who posed as a pregnant 15-year-old and recorded a clinic employee suggesting that she lie about her age to avoid filing a statutory rape report. The suit in Ohio alleges that when the girl sought an abortion in November 2004 -- she was 16 years old at the time --...

New Haven, CT (LifeNews.com) -- Connecticut is the latest state to experience a case of abortions covering up statutory rape and again brings into question why abortion facilities are not contacting authorities about the actions. In this Northeastern state, a 22 year-old man has been charged with getting his then 14 year-old girlfriend pregnant. Kevon Walker, who was 21 at the time, got the unnamed girl pregnant three times in six months and the girl wound up having three abortions as a result.However, abortion businesses failed to report the statutory rape to authorities and officials only began investigating Walker's actions...

Following an outbreak of lawsuits that Planned Parenthood is illegally concealing the age of minors and failing to report incidents of statutory rape, the nation’s largest abortion provider has threatened civil action of its own against an 18-year-old female student at UCLA. Student reporter Lisa Rose, posing as a pregnant 15-year-old, visited the Santa Monica Planned Parenthood, expressing her interest in an abortion and introducing her 23-year-old boyfriend. With the entire exchange caught on film, the employee warns Rose that the company is required to report cases of statutory rape to the police, but encourages Rose to conceal her age...

(CNSNews.com) - Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles is threatening to sue a student pro-life activist who recorded an abortion clinic employee encouraging her to lie about her age to avoid being reported as a victim of statutory rape. Lila Rose, an 18-year old sophomore at the University of California Los Angeles, is the founder of a pro-life magazine on campus. In March, she entered a Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles (PPLA) clinic, posing as a pregnant 15-year old and said her boyfriend was 23 years old. A girl in that position would be considered a victim of statutory rape because...

A hidden camera hit-piece on Planned Parenthood is quickly making the rounds on YouTube. The first of two videos captures a staff member at a Los Angeles Planned Parenthood clinic appearing to obliquely guide a pregnant 15-year-old on how to lie about her age in order to have an abortion without the clinic's being required to report a statutory rape to the police. In the second video, a worker at a different clinic counsels the girl and relates that she'd given birth at the age of 17 and later came to regret it. But, as it turns out, the 15-year-old...