Tag: Planned Parenthood

Poverty-Stricken Latino Woman Shares Trauma of Taking Abortion Pills, Vows to God ‘Never Again’

Growing up in poverty, in an abusive family in Guatemala, Dalia wasn’t ready for a relationship when she met the father of her children. After emigrating to California, she first saw Ernesto Iniguez, who lived next door to her apartment, when she was in high school. Dalia thought he was “so handsome,” and they fell…


Sin of Planned Parenthood Is Abortion, Not Margaret Sanger

Commentary The president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Alexis McGill Johnson, has used The New York Times as a confessional to fess up to the racist history of Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger. “We must reckon with Margaret Sanger’s association with white supremacist groups and eugenics,” she writes. Sanger’s involvement with the notoriously racist…


Utah Law Requires Fathers to Pay Half of Pregnancy Costs

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed legislation into law on Monday legally requiring biological fathers to help with paying medical costs in the pregnancy if the biological mother requests it.


Utah Governor Signs Legislation Making Fathers Help Pay With Pregnancy Costs

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed legislation into law on Monday legally requiring biological fathers to help with paying medical costs in the pregnancy if the biological mother requests it.


Texas Can Oust Planned Parenthood From Medicaid Program, Judge Rules

A state judge ruled on Wednesday that Texas can remove Planned Parenthood and its affiliates from its Medicaid program. Texas had previously given Medicaid recipients using Planned Parenthood a Feb. 3 deadline to find new health care providers. Planned Parenthood challenged that in its recent lawsuit, which argued that the state didn’t follow the law when it issued a 30-day notice…


Federal Judge Blocks Tennessee Abortion Law

A federal judge on Friday blocked a Tennessee law that required abortionists to advise patients about options for reversing a chemical abortion. Judge William Campbell issued a preliminary injunction (pdf), ruling that the requirement is unconstitutional. Campbell opined that issuing the injunction would preserve the status quo and that the status quo is not harmful…


Planned Parenthood Abortion Numbers Hit 15-Year-High, Pro-Life Group Says

Data from Planned Parenthood’s annual report shows that the organization’s abortion numbers hit a 15-year-high, according to the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List. Between Oct. 1, 2018 and Sept. 30, 2019, Planned Parenthood performed 354,871 abortions among other services, such as STI testing and treatment, contraceptive services, cancer screenings and prevention, and other services, according…


Court Blocks Newly Signed South Carolina Abortion Law on Planned Parenthood’s Behest

A federal judge on Friday blocked a newly signed law in South Carolina that bans abortions after a heartbeat is detected in the unborn baby. U.S. District Judge Mary Geiger Lewis, an Obama appointee, ruled in favor of Planned Parenthood, which filed the suit around the time the bill was signed into law. South Carolina…


Judge Temporarily Blocks Texas From Withholding Medicaid Funding to Planned Parenthood

A Texas judge has temporarily blocked the state from excluding Planned Parenthood and its affiliates from the its Medicaid program, the organization said. The temporary restraining order, issued by a Travis County judge, comes after Planned Parenthood affiliates filed an emergency request to the state court on Wednesday to prevent Texas from going through with its decision…


Supreme Court Vacates Rulings Allowing Texas’s CCP Virus Abortion Restrictions

The Supreme Court on Jan. 25 vacated two lower court rulings that allowed Texas to temporarily postpone most abortions amid the CCP virus pandemic. But the order does not have any immediate consequences as the state has already lifted its abortion restrictions. The case was brought by Planned Parenthood Center for Choice who wanted the…