Health Care

When Planned Parenthood tried to bully a corporate donor… and lost

8 February 2012 – 12:14 am PST

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When Planned Parenthood tried to bully a corporate donor… and lost

Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure would have done well to look back at Planned Parenthood’s history of nasty break-ups to get a better handle on what was ahead. Back in the pre-Internet dinosaur days 22 years ago, Planned Parenthood’s tactics may have been different, but its assault was just as grand when it [...]

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(Prolifer)ations 2-7-12

8 February 2012 – 12:13 am PST

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(Prolifer)ations 2-7-12

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com. Bryan Kemper updates readers on developments at Birmingham’s New Woman All Women abortion mill, which was the site of recent botched abortions. The [...]

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Report to Congressional committee details Planned Parenthood’s fraud, waste, and abuse

8 February 2012 – 12:13 am PST

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Report to Congressional committee details Planned Parenthood’s fraud, waste, and abuse

One in five Planned Parenthood affiliates has been identified in state and federal audits as perpetrating waste, abuse, and potential fraud. Those details and more emerged today in a press conference held by the Susan B. Anthony List and Alliance Defense Fund as they announced the contents of a report they were submitting to Congressman [...]

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Life Links 2-7-12

8 February 2012 – 12:13 am PST

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Life Links 2-7-12

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat The state of Texas can begin enforcing their ultrasound law but Judge Sam Sparks isn’t happy about it: U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks said he was forced to follow the federal appellate court’s ruling last month that ordered its immediate enforcement. Sparks said his action on Monday came [...]

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Lunch Break: Three’s Company reunion – 30 years later

8 February 2012 – 12:13 am PST

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by LauraLoo Last week Suzanne Somers (on her show Breaking Through) invited former Three’s Company co-star Joyce DeWitt to reunite and remove the “ick” that permeated the air for so long. Suzanne played dim-wit Chrissy Snow and Joyce played straight-laced Janet Wood. The ladies look great – hard to believe they are in their 60′s! Click [...]

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Breaking: Karen Handel resigns from Komen

8 February 2012 – 12:13 am PST

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Breaking: Karen Handel resigns from Komen

UPDATE 1:47p: Am told Karen Handel is going on Megyn Kelly’s show on Fox at 2p EST. 11:07a: From AJC.com: Karen Handel… just announced her resignation as a senior vice president for public of Susan G. Komen for the Cure – one week after the breast cancer charity reversed itself on a decision to sever [...]

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Campus vending machine sales of Plan B raise a bigger question of underage access

7 February 2012 – 12:28 am PST

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Campus vending machine sales of Plan B raise a bigger question of underage access

One university doesn’t seem to care that the Obama administration did not make widespread use of Plan B, the morning after pill, available in pharmacies for anyone who wanted it. Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania decided that  making Plan B, the controversial morning after pill, available was somehow an important service to students despite the many [...]

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Claims of pro-life misogyny irrational

7 February 2012 – 12:15 am PST

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Claims of pro-life misogyny irrational

Even if one could magically rid all misogyny from the world, there would still be a basis for an anti-choice movement: the belief or the conclusion that nascent human life deserves legal protection.  This proposition needs no misogyny to originate or gain widespread assent.  And assent it has.  So unless you can show conclusively that [...]

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Spot the manipulation

7 February 2012 – 12:15 am PST

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One of my favorite tweeters for the other side is RabblePro-Choice. She’s like a wild-eyed pro-abort terrier. Last week Rabble went after pro-lifer marylikesbagles, who had posted the following video with the invitation, “Everyone who believes in abortion should watch this video. It’s only 30 seconds anyways.” Click here to view the embedded video.  Apparently [...]

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Life Links 2-6-12

7 February 2012 – 12:15 am PST

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Life Links 2-6-12

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat Want to know why the NY Times editorials are consistently horribly reasoned and argued? Here’s Andrew Rosenthal, the Times’ editorial page editor, attempting to argue that abortions are rare in the United States. Seriously, abortions are rare because they are less common than blood transfusions and because there [...]

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