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A man has been arrested in South Carolina after threatening a group of pro-life activists with a deactivated grenade. Key Takeaways: * Pro-lifers from the group Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust were threatened with a grenade while protesting outside a church Sunday morning. * Police later determined the grenade was hollowed out. * The pro-life group was protesting the church's involvement with pro-abortion organizations. The Details: Richard Lovelace, 79, a retired lawyer, faces charges after allegedly harassing pro-lifers from the group Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, whose members were gathered outside St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Conway, South Carolina. Police...

ransomnote: The following is another GROK AI report critiquing the failure of the DOJ's performance, this time on the failure of the DOJ to follow through on Chuck Grassley's criminal referrals from 2016, regarding evidence that Planned Parenthood was profiting by selling fetal tissue.I asked GROK to use a very sensitive, soft tone because I hope we can reach across the aisle regarding on this issue. I'm hoping to reach those Democrats who, even if they support abortion, would still 'draw the line' at Planned Parenthood marketing fetal tissue for profit. GROK did well with my request it use a...

An independent filmmaker says that he was filming a documentary outside of a Planned Parenthood in California when police handcuffed him, confiscated his equipment and forced him to sit in the back of a cop car for almost an hour — an incident his attorney argued violated his rights. According to Dan Brown Jr., he was filming a street preacher named Brother Ed and other evangelists for a documentary titled "Cry Aloud," a name that may change further into production. The film, he explained, focuses on confrontational street evangelists and their interactions with law enforcement, and examines questions about the...

As mayor, Mamdani has pledged to safeguard and expand access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care, including abortion and gender-affirming care. His platform calls for doubling funding for both New York City’s Abortion Access Hub and the New York Abortion Access Fund (NYAAF), ensuring that anyone can access abortion care regardless of income or immigration status. His plans also include an investment of $65 million in public clinics and sexual and reproductive health care providers to expand access to gender-affirming care and confronting private health care institutions that have refused to provide this critical care. Mamdani will also declare...

California Governor Gavin Newsom is giving Planned Parenthood another $140 million in taxpayer money, to show support for the abortion corporation and keep its doors open. But even this amount of money may not guarantee that. Key Takeaways: * Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he will funnel another $140 million in taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood. * The promise of further financial support is in response to the Congressional defunding of abortion providers that qualify as "prohibited entities" of federal Medicaid dollars for one year. * Planned Parenthood is asking supporters for more donations as it announces more facility closures; however,...

Seven Democrat states have pledged tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds to prop up Planned Parenthood amid federal defunding under Congress and President Donald Trump. The move is drawing sharp condemnation from pro-life advocates who say the states are propping up the nation’s biggest abortion company. The taxpayer-funding commitments from New York, California, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Massachusetts and Hawaii come in response to a one-year moratorium on Medicaid reimbursements for nonprofits that kill babies in abortions, enacted as part of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” signed in July. The law bars such organizations from federal funding if they received...

Created by Elon Musk, xAI's Grok has introduced AI ‘companions’ — and one of them targeted toward children refers users to Planned Parenthood, likening abortion to simply “turning off a light.” According to a July 2025 article from Tom's Guide, Grok's companions are "AI chatbots that are assigned specific personalities for you to interact with...." Tom's reviewer Alex Hughes adds, with concern, that "[M]ost of the larger AI companies with strong reputations have stayed clear of this world, primarily because of the pretty expansive ethical problems that come attached with providing people with ‘AI relationships’." Grok's companions, Hughes writes, each...

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell has ruled that Planned Parenthood affiliates in California, Iowa, and New York do not have to comply with recent executive orders requiring them to affirm biological sex and discontinue the promotion of radical gender ideology and promiscuity in order to receive federal funding Key Takeaways: * Despite multiple Trump executive orders specifying otherwise, a district judge has ruled that certain Planned Parenthood affiliates in three states do not have to rid their sex ed curricula of radical gender ideology. * The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program has been shown in the past to have failed to...

Today, Governor Phil Murphy issued a Conditional Veto of the proposed Abortion Travel Advisory bill (S3663). His veto raises important questions about his motives and logic and whether the state should be in the business of evaluating other states’ laws in the first place. The bill, strongly backed by Planned Parenthood, called for the creation of an ‘Abortion Tourism’ website to be maintained by the Department of State (DOS), a move that would promote one-sided information and political messaging. According to the proposal, the website would have used a three-tiered, color-coded system—Blue: Exercise normal caution; Yellow: Exercise increased caution; and...

Unexpected pregnancy doesn’t mean unwanted pregnancy. A married couple leaving Planned Parenthood saw a 40 Days for Life “Ask Me About a Free Ultrasound” sign and decided to take Upland, California, vigil participants up on their offer. “This is a miraculous gift from God!” the husband said. “We just found out she is pregnant, and we didn’t even know if it was possible. We have been hoping and praying, and now we are expecting our first baby!” So why in the world were they at Planned Parenthood? The young family needed pregnancy care. But contrary to the name, Planned Parenthood...

Afaxys Pharma — which supplies "family planning clinics" and Planned Parenthood facilities, universities, and others with birth control and emergency contraceptives — has received $8 million in funding from an abortion pill investor, allegedly for "improving access to affordable contraceptives across the United States." And a former Planned Parenthood manager is set to lead the for-profit company. Key Takeaways: * A 'contraceptive' pharmacy heavily tied to Planned Parenthood and at least one abortion pill distributor has received millions from two foundations — one of which is one of the largest global funders of abortion. * The funding, from the Packard...

Planned Parenthood’s abortion empire continued its downward spiral as the abortion organization announced the closure of seven centers in California, That pushes the total number of its facilities shuttered across the country this year to 50 and highlights the mounting financial toll of federal defunding efforts championed by pro-life advocates. Planned Parenthood clearly relies on our tax dollars to prop up its abortion business. The closures, affecting Melody Health — an arm of Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties — will shutter locations in Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Mission Viejo, Santa Ana, Westminster, San Bernardino and Upland. The centers...

When the Planned Parenthood clinic in Marquette closed in April, it was the only clinic providing abortion medication in the Upper Peninsula. Healthcare options were already limited in the vast, remote region. The next-closest Planned Parenthood clinic is now a roughly five-hour drive south. While the Planned Parenthood clinic in Marquette didn’t offer procedural abortion, it did provide more than a thousand patients per year services like cancer screenings, birth control and medication abortion. “All of these reproductive health care services, for a big chunk of the population here, were put into jeopardy,” said Dr. Viktoria Koskenoja, a local emergency...

And the very people who supported Biden’s authoritarian regime are the very same ones protesting. Teachers’ unions, Federal workers unions, the ACLU, atheists, progressives, pro-abortion activists, socialists, climate change activists, etc. The list goes on and on. The No Kings Day organizers even have their own website , with various tools to promote social unrest, and numerous progressive organizations are funding these protests. Here are images of some of their “partners” - a more complete list is linked here.The list of funders is a “who’s who” of progressive, social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion NGOs. One of the main funders...

The Trump administration is looking to slash an office at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) whose critics say has been a major driver of gender ideology and abortion policies in the federal government. The Office of Population Affairs (OPA) saw roughly 30 employees issued reduction-in-force (RIF) notices Oct. 10, effectively sidelining most of the agency’s staff, individuals familiar with the matter told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The cuts come as White House officials repeatedly warned that staffing reductions could occur if Democrats continue to refuse to reopen the government. OPA’s stated mission is to advance “reproductive...

Affordable primary care clinics run by Planned Parenthood will close their locations in Orange and San Bernardino counties as the Trump Administration blocks federal funding for the nonprofit, the organization announced Monday. Melody Health is a branch of Planned Parenthood, and the impacted locations include Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Mission Viejo, Santa Ana, Westminster, San Bernardino and Upland. As the Trump administration is preventing abortion service providers, such as Planned Parenthood, from receiving federal grants, the nonprofit said it cannot afford to keep the door open at Melody Health clinics. The last day of operations for the clinics will be Dec....

Women won't choose motherhood in a climate that undermines women's healthMy late grandmother and I share two things: A very mean glare when irate and a history of domestic abuse. An unwitting feminist before feminism was en vogue, she ensured a key difference in our fates. Thanks to my grandmother's adamant emphasis on educating girls in our family, I could do what she couldn't: leave. All women should have the chance I had -- the choice my grandmother didn't have but gifted to me. The advancement of women's rights has blessed us with freedom. We can be mothers, and we...

It seems like the Total Fertility Rate collapse is a mega-trend that is not being incorporated into conservative expectations. In addition to the economic problem of a system historically based on perpetual growth, we are going to have to come up with a practical answer to entitlements like Social Security. I don't think our present system can accommodate this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2GeVG0XYTc

Today, Planned Parenthood is closing its Houston, Texas abortion facility that was the biggest abortion center in North America. Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast announced in July that it would close two Houston-area abortion centers, including its 78,000-square-foot Prevention Park facility, once the largest abortion center in the Western Hemisphere. That closing will happen today and hundreds, if not thousands, of pro-life Texans will be on hand to celebrate. The Houston Coalition for Life is hosting two special vigils today. “The events will both honor the lives lost to abortion within the building and celebrate the closure of Planned Parenthood’s Prevention...

Planned Parenthood is pausing abortions in Wisconsin because federal legislation preventing Medicaid from funding abortion services for one year goes into effect Oct. 1. Wisconsin Right to Life praised the news. “Taxpayer dollars should never fund the taking of innocent preborn lives,” Heather Weininger, executive director of Wisconsin Right to Life, said in a Sept. 25 WisPolitics article. “Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin has long centered its operations around abortion services, and this announcement only confirms that reality.” The Big Beautiful Bill, signed into law by President Donald Trump July 4, prevents Medicaid dollars from funding abortions. A federal judge initially...