Planned Parenthood Applauds Pop Culture Efforts to Push Past Stigma Around Sex and Abortion
Today, the films Grandma and Sleeping With Other People debut nationwide. In different ways, both films challenge the stigma around sex, sexuality, and safe and legal abortion.
Dec. 28, 2015
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Planned Parenthood Commemorates Hispanic Heritage Month by Standing with the Latino Community
Today, Planned Parenthood Federation of America commemorated the start of Hispanic Heritage Month by standing with the Latino community in the United States and around the world.
Dec. 28, 2015
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CONGRESS JOINS CALL FOR FULL, UNEDITED SOURCE FOOTAGE OF DECEPTIVELY EDITED VIDEOS
Earlier today, The House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena to the Center for Medical Progress for all of its unedited source footage related to its recent smear campaign against Planned Parenthood.
Dec. 28, 2015
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ICYMI: House Judiciary Committee Hearing Turns Into Political Circus on Abortion
Today, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing provocatively titled “Planned Parenthood Exposed, Examining the Horrific Abortion Practices at the Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider.”
Dec. 28, 2015
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PLANNED PARENTHOOD STATEMENT ON HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE HEARING
Today, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing provocatively titled “Planned Parenthood Exposed, Examining the Horrific Abortion Practices at the Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider.” The Republican Majority invited three life-long anti-abortion activists to testify, however they did not invite officials from Planned Parenthood.
Dec. 28, 2015
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Déjà Vu: Center for Medical Progress Just the Latest in More than a Decade of Eerily Similar Discredited Attacks on Planned Parenthood
The recent two-month long campaign by activists who call themselves the Center for Medical Progress is not unique — in fact it is only the latest in a decade’s worth of similar, discredited attacks against Planned Parenthood, according to a new memo released by the nonprofit women’s health provider today.
Dec. 28, 2015
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ICYMI: Top House Dems Call on Chairman to Suspend “One-Sided” Investigations of Planned Parenthood
Today, two top House Democrats --- Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. John J. Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the Committee on the Judiciary --- sent a letter asking the Chairs of their Committees to suspend their “one-sided” investigations of Planned Parenthood, or to also fully investigate the group of anti-abortion extremists calling themselves the Center for Medical Progress for numerous possible violations of state and federal law.
Dec. 28, 2015
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Another State Declines to Investigate Planned Parenthood as Attacks Fall Apart
Officials in Iowa have announced that they will not investigate Planned Parenthood in relation to extremist attacks about fetal tissue donation — adding to a growing number of states from across the country that have cleared Planned Parenthood affiliates of any wrongdoing or declined to investigate (more HERE and HERE).
Dec. 28, 2015
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Anti-Abortion Group Admits to Falsifying Latest Video
Anti-abortion extremists who are releasing heavily edited, deceptive videos about Planned Parenthood have acknowledged that their latest video included false and misleading information, posting a clarification to their YouTube page yesterday that an image they suggested was from an abortion was actually a photo of a stillborn fetus.
Dec. 28, 2015
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