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New York, NY – A woman on an ambulance gurney who appeared to have been visibly pregnant, was wheeled out of the Margaret Sanger Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Manhattan, New York, to an awaiting New York Fire Department ambulance. The incident happened on February 7, 2020, at approximately 10:10 a.m. The woman, whose head was wrapped with a sheet, was strapped to the gurney in the semi-seated position. A gauze secured with tape could been seen on the inside of her left arm that appeared to attached to an IV bag above her shoulder. An orange gurney strap accentuated...

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont’s priorities are all mixed up. Though his state has been suffering financially for years, the pro-abortion Democrat leader is pushing for additional tax dollars for Planned Parenthood, a billion-dollar abortion chain. NBC Connecticut News reports Lamont released his proposed budget this week as he gave his annual State of the State address. The $22.3 billion budget plan includes $1.5 million for Planned Parenthood, according to the Hartford Courant. Lamont wants the state taxpayer funding to counteract President Donald Trump’s new Title X rule, which defunded Planned Parenthood of about $60 million nationally. Locally, the Southern New...

Planned Parenthood despises President Donald Trump. The billion-dollar abortion chain slammed the Republican president repeatedly Tuesday on social media as he gave his State of the Union address. In his speech, Trump emphasized that every human life is “a sacred gift from God” and must be protected. He urged Congress to pass a law banning late-term abortions, which take the lives of thousands of unborn babies every year. Planned Parenthood, however, wants abortions to be legal for any reason up to birth, and it is dumping huge amounts of money into the 2020 election to push its agenda. “This administration...

Leaders of the Church of Planned Parenthood say their regular protests are not intended to disrupt the facility’s services. Councilwoman Lori Kinnear wants to make sure of it. Kinnear introduced a new law Monday that she said aims to respect free speech and the protesters’ right to their opinion, while ensuring their chorus of objection does not intrude on the services inside the health care facility’s walls. “It does not impact free speech. Protests are still allowed, that’s not the issue. It’s about noise,” Kinnear said. The South Hill councilwoman drafted a law that would set specific protections for health...

A Republican pastor from Arkansas, ignoring Democrats’ growing extremism on abortion, urged evangelical Christians to vote for a Democrat instead of President Donald Trump this week. “Because a deal with Democrats is better than a deal with the devil,” wrote Robb Ryerse, an evangelical Christian pastor at Vintage Fellowship in Fayetteville, Arkansas. His piece in Time magazine this week compared Trump to the devil, and argued that pro-life Christians would better serve the “common good” by voting for a pro-abortion Democrat. “Voters of faith should set aside their personal interests and predilections and instead prioritize the common good for all,”...

Before Robert “Beto” Francis O’Rourke’s frenetic mannerisms, weird statements, and bold call for total gun confiscation knocked him out of the Democrat presidential primaries, he was considered one of the great hopes of the Democrat Party in Texas. After all, in 2018, in the great, red state of Texas, he had almost beaten Senator Ted Cruz’s bid for reelection. Eliz Markowitz was Beto’s designated successor and really thought she could win in Texas House District 28, a Houston suburb. But just like Beto, Markowitz flamed out, although more spectacularly than Beto did. Markowitz, a Ph.D. who calls herself “doctor” (making...

Baltimore, MD — In a scene that has been replicated thousands of times at abortion facilities across America, an ambulance and fire unit responded to a 911 call for help on December 18, 2019, when a woman who had undergone an abortion experienced “possibly dangerous” hemorrhage. This incident took place at the Baltimore Health Center Planned Parenthood, located near downtown Baltimore, Maryland. Heavily redacted 911 records, including a recording and CAD printout, supplied to Operation Rescue by the pro-life organization Defend Life, revealed little about the emergency, except that the call was placed by a Planned Parenthood worker going by...

It may be difficult to believe in this enlightened age but there was a time not so long ago when the National Review was the intellectual heart of America's conservative movement. Its writers were sharp, gifted and irreverent. Their appearances on Fox News and other TV outlets made them rock stars. All that ended on January 22, 2016, when the magazine posted online its "Against Trump" issue. Once again, the editors proudly chose to stand athwart history rather than make it. They chose to lose with what they consider honor rather than win. 22 writers signed on, each penning...

Reflections on the 47th anniversary of Roe V. Wade: What is “family planning?” Most of us think of the term as referring to logical, traditional advice: Don’t have sexual relations until marriage; try to time things so that you don’t have more kids, more quickly, then you can handle; agree on which denomination to raise your children in, early on, so you don’t have fights later… things like that. But since the 1960s and 1970s, Planned Parenthood’s definition of “family planning” has taken over. Planned Parenthood, in fact, basically owns the term. They market themselves as “a family planning organization…”...

Trump Undoes Obama’s Pro-abortion Policy in Texas Restores funds yanked in retaliation for Planned Parenthood defunding AUSTIN, Texas (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Trump administration is granting Texas' request for a waiver to Medicaid rules that would restore funding for the state's Healthy Texas Women program. Federal funds have been cut off for the program since 2013 in retaliation for Texas refusing to fund abortion providers like Planned Parenthood or their affiliates.   According to a statement from Texas' Health and Human Services Commission, it has reached an agreement with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to provide $350,000 for comprehensive women's health services over the next five years....

The City Pages hit, and Planned Parenthood not liking the billboards, is not just about a disagreement over a controversial issue. It’s about money. Two pro-life billboards were taken down in St. Paul, after the billboard stand owner—who remains unknown—threatened the billboard company, Clear Channel, that the stand owner would not renew the lease with Clear Channel unless the billboards were taken down.One billboard gave the website and number for abortion pill reversal (877-558-0333), and another the phone number and website for women facing an unplanned pregnancy, OptionLine.org (800-712-4357). Both advertisements were taken out by Pro-Life Action Ministries (PLAM).PLAM strategically...

Flossmoor, IL – Newly acquired 911 records show that an ambulance was called to the Flossmoor Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Flossmoor, Illinois, on November 12, 2019, to assist with and transport a woman who was hemorrhaging. The heavily redacted 911 recordings and Computer Aided Dispatch transcript (CAD), were provided to Operation Rescue by the Pro-Life Action League, located in Chicago, Illinois. The call was placed though a Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) to call the Intrado Emergency Call Relay Center, which, in turn, placed the call to the 911 exchange. It took a minute and a half for the...

The Trump administration gave another victory to mothers and babies this week when it granted a Texas waiver to defund Planned Parenthood and use tax dollars to support real women’s health care instead. For at least a decade, Texas leaders have been trying to stop taxpayer dollars from funding the abortion industry, but their efforts were thwarted time after time by the Obama administration and lawsuits from the abortion industry. On Wednesday, however, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reversed an Obama-era decision and restored $350 million in federal funding to the Healthy Texas Women program, The Statesman...

Planned Parenthood is trying desperately to unseat President Donald Trump in 2020 and reverse his pro-life impact. The largest abortion chain in the United States, Planned Parenthood wants political power, and it plans to spend at least $45 million on the 2020 election to get it. Speaking with The Guardian, acting president Alexis McGill Johnson said her pro-abortion group has a lot of work ahead to “undo all the damage” caused by recent pro-life laws and policies. She slammed the Trump administration and state legislatures for their work to protect unborn babies and mothers from abortion – though she claimed...

Big Abortion is jumping into the 2020 race with big numbers. It was announced Thursday that Planned Parenthood is launching what CBS News’ Kate Smith reported is “the biggest electoral effort in its history: a $45 million spend to support presidential, congressional and state-level candidates in the 2020 elections who support abortion rights.” The campaign, dubbed “We Decide 2020,” will target five million voters in nine battleground states via “large-scale grassroots programs and canvassing, digital, television, and radio and mail programs.” Smith interviewed Planned Parenthood Votes Executive Director Jenny Lawson who said, “The stakes have never been higher,” and admitted,...

In a recent attempt to silence pro-lifers, two of Pro-Life Action Ministries’ pro-life billboards have been removed after the billboard company received a threat from the owner of the billboard stand. The billboards, which are near the mega-Planned Parenthood in St. Paul, Minnesota, featured the website and the phone number to call for Abortion Pill Reversal (877-558-0333) and a website and phone number for women facing an unplanned pregnancy — OptionLine.org (800-712-4357). The billboard company, Clear Channel, was told by the still unknown owner of the billboard stand that he would not renew his lease with them if the pro-life...

Consumer Reports said the condoms given out by Planned Parenthood are defective According to Consumer Reports, the condoms given out by Planned Parenthood are defective.Below is a screenshot from Consumer Reports. (You can see a bigger version of the image by clicking on it twice.)Both of the two condoms at the very bottom of the ratings are from Planned Parenthood. Both had a score of “poor� (the worst possible score) in the category called “strength.� One of them also scored “poor� in the category called “reliability.�For an organization that makes money by selling abortions, it’s a very clever business strategy for...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – Kentucky officials are inviting a Planned Parenthood clinic to apply for a license to perform abortions. Procedures at the Louisville clinic had been halted under Kentucky’s previous governor, Matt Bevin, in early 2016. If Planned Parenthood’s license is approved for the Louisville clinic, it would become only the second abortion provider in the state. Bevin and the Republican-controlled General Assembly had moved in recent years to enact restrictions on abortions. But Bevin lost his reelection bid to Democrat Andy Beshear in November.

Many in the media are asserting that a new study proves women don’t regret abortion ever – but “ever� only means the following five years. A study published in Social Science & Medicine on January 12 found that by five years after an abortion, “the large majority of women (84%) had either primarily positive emotions or no emotions whatsoever� and just “6% expressed primarily negative emotions.� The media widely covered the study while, at the same time, overlooked the women who say it took them decades to acknowledge their regret after abortion.CNN’s headline about the study, which was performed by researchers...

Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas have been told they can no longer receive charitable donations directly from state employee paychecks. For at least the past decade, state employees could donate to the chain of women’s health care clinics through the State Employee Charitable Campaign, which automatically deducts the money from their paychecks. Officials with the campaign asked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton if Senate Bill 22, which prohibits local governments from contracting with abortion providers or their affiliates, disqualifies Planned Parenthood from getting donations. Last week, Paxton said yes. In his opinion, he wrote that state law “prohibits the State...