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Dr. Heidi Overton, Trump's nominee for FDA commissioner, pledged to complete a thorough and transparent safety study of the abortion pill mifepristone, which has been criticized for its adverse effects and mail-order distribution without in-person doctor visits.
Read →Former President Joe Biden accepted the Sonia Schorr Sloan Service Award from Planned Parenthood at their Delaware fundraising gala, where his wife Jill Biden presented the award. During his speech, Biden criticized the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v.
Read →Operation Rescue and Life Legal Defense Foundation conducted a three-day #JusticeForLexi Campaign in Colorado to expose the death of 18-year-old Lexi Arguello attributed to Planned Parenthood. The campaign involved peaceful and prayerful events and received coverage from both national and local news outlets, including a reporter from Colorado.
Read →Planned Parenthood Action Fund opposes President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the FDA, pro-life physician Dr. Heidi Overton, accusing her of spreading misinformation and posing a threat to abortion during her Senate confirmation hearing.
Read →Planned Parenthood honored Joe Biden with the 2026 Sonia Schorr Sloan Service Award at a fundraising gala in Delaware, recognizing his support through tax funding and pro-abortion executive orders that helped the organization kill a record number of babies last year. Biden accepted the award, linking it to Sloan, and emphasized his efforts to protect access to reproductive health care following the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v.
Read →California dropped all charges against anti-abortion activist Anastasia Rogers related to a 14-second Instagram video criticizing Planned Parenthood, and the protective order restricting her sidewalk outreach was terminated. The charges were initially based on claims that her video violated California's Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, but after a diversion program and a deadlocked jury, the court dismissed the case in San Francisco County.
Read →In Hawaii, the use of abortion pills has tripled over the past decade, with more than three out of four abortions now performed chemically rather than surgically, according to 2026 state health data. Despite this trend, Planned Parenthood and other providers have not fully disclosed the risks, as a large study found that about 10.93 percent of women using mifepristone experience serious complications, while the FDA's official adverse reaction rate is under half a percent.
Read →Haile McAnally, who took abortion pills from Planned Parenthood as a high school student in Omaha, Nebraska, experienced severe bleeding and unconsciousness, requiring a blood transfusion after being sent home with the medication and no thorough medical evaluation. Now a pro-life advocate, she is urging lawmakers to limit mail-order mifepristone to prevent other women from facing similar dangers, and she is working with Susan B.
Read →Olivia Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Festival in Irvine, California, sold out in 30 minutes and raised $20 million for ten charities, including Planned Parenthood and other abortion-related organizations. The festival's open support for abortion rights parallels the cultural attitudes reflected in the 'Same, Lindsay' social media phenomenon, which expresses a troubling resentment toward motherhood amid ongoing debates about abortion and maternal challenges.
Read →Students for Life Action and nearly 40 pro-life groups sent letters to four of Trump's top officials on September 9, 2026, urging them to investigate Planned Parenthood and, if evidence supports, to debar it from federal contracts, effectively cutting off its federal funding without needing a Senate vote. This move follows reports of Planned Parenthood receiving $832 million in government funding, performing a record 434,450 abortions in one year, and allegations of Medicaid fraud and improper receipt of Paycheck Protection Program loans, with legal actions and investigations ongoing.
Read →Hassan-James Abbas, an Ohio surgical resident, was sentenced to six months in prison for forcibly administering abortion pills to his pregnant girlfriend, Jona Affholder, who subsequently lost the baby after going to the hospital. Pro-life leader Marjorie Dannenfelser criticized the light sentence and current U.S. laws that allow abortion medications to be prescribed via telehealth, highlighting the need for stronger legal consequences and more active prosecution in cases of forced abortion. Abbas obtained the abortion drugs using his estranged wife's identification and forced Affholder to ingest them despite her intention to keep the pregnancy, leading to felony charges including unlawfully distributing abortion-inducing drugs and identity fraud, to which he pleaded no contest. Dannenfelser and Senator Bernie Moreno called for greater accountability from political figures and the Department of Justice, while noting a lack of public response from pro-choice advocates and Planned Parenthood regarding the case.
Read →Efforts to support pro-life candidates and oppose federal funding for Planned Parenthood in the upcoming election, focusing on swing states like Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, Ohio, Texas, and Alaska. It emphasizes the importance of winning key congressional seats to renew measures that defund Planned Parenthood and advance pro-life legislation.
Read →Students for Life of America and Students for Life Action have campaigned for nearly two years to end taxpayer support for Planned Parenthood, delivering tens of thousands of petitions and organizing nationwide events to pressure the Trump Administration to defund and debar the organization. In response to allegations including Medicaid fraud and other violations, the Small Business Administration opened a review of Planned Parenthood's eligibility for over $88 million in PPP loans, and pro-life groups have urged the Administration to complete a debarment investigation that would ban Planned Parenthood from federal funding for up to three years.
Read →Planned Parenthood continued to bill Medicaid in Texas after being banned in 2015 due to undercover footage showing officials negotiating the sale of aborted baby body parts. A federal appeals court recently rejected Planned Parenthood's appeal, sending the case back to a Texas federal court where the organization must defend approximately 144,411 Medicaid claims worth about $17 million, potentially leading to damages approaching $1.8 billion under the False Claims Act.
Read →The University of Illinois Chicago's School of Law has approved Planned Parenthood of Illinois as a qualified employer for its federal work study program, allowing law students to earn wages working at the abortion provider. Additionally, UIC's School of Nursing runs fellowships that train clinicians to perform abortions, funded in part by a $2 million grant from the Illinois Department of Public Health, with these programs supported by state legislation influenced by a student referendum organized by Planned Parenthood's campus chapter.
Read →Planned Parenthood Mar Monte opened a Botox and filler counter in its Sacramento clinic in March 2026 after Congress cut off its Medicaid funding for one year under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Despite receiving $90 million in emergency funding from California, the organization continues to offer cosmetic treatments like Botox, fillers, and vein treatments to generate revenue, prompting Senator Marsha Blackburn to request an IRS investigation into whether this activity violates its tax-exempt status.
Read →The University of Illinois Chicago School of Law has approved Planned Parenthood of Illinois as a qualified agency for its federal work-study program, allowing law students to work part-time at Planned Parenthood using federal funds. Additionally, the UIC School of Nursing offers abortion training fellowships funded by a $2 million grant from the Illinois Department of Public Health, which supports abortion-related training programs at UIC, the Midwest Access Project, and Planned Parenthood of Illinois.
Read →Oregon reported 10,495 abortions in 2025, the highest number since 2009, with a decline in late-term abortions and out-of-state residents seeking abortions in the state. Malheur County saw a significant drop in abortions after the opening of a Planned Parenthood facility, but 90.3% of its 2025 abortions were for out-of-state residents, while Oregon Right to Life continues efforts to promote life-affirming alternatives and address abortion pill usage.
Read →Two women, Clara Munger Boyer and KPS, have filed a federal lawsuit against Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota (PPMNS), alleging they were coerced into abortions without proper informed consent or counseling at Planned Parenthood facilities in Minnesota. Both women describe experiencing significant pressure from family members and the fathers of their babies, with PPMNS staff failing to provide adequate information about the abortion procedures or address their moral objections and distress before performing the abortions.
Read →Planned Parenthood declared on social media that 'people of all genders need abortions,' linking its abortion services with support for gender-fluid ideology. This statement prompted pushback, including from liberals, who questioned the notion that men can get pregnant in response to the September 4 Instagram post.
Read →Two women have filed a federal lawsuit against Planned Parenthood affiliates, alleging they were pressured into unwanted abortions at Minnesota abortion facilities in 2020 and 2021 and that the abortions violated their constitutional rights. The 80-page proposed class-action complaint was filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. It seeks to represent […] The post Women Sue Planned Parenthood for Pressuring Them to Have Abortions appeared first on LifeNews.com .
Read →[Ellie Gardey Holmes is Reporter and Associate Editor at The American Spectator. The following first appeared on March 3, 2026 in The Washington Stand (www.washingtonstand. com), published by the Family Research Council, and is reprinted with permission.] Planned Parenthood abortion cl... The post APPENDIX D: Planned Parenthood’s New Strategy appeared first on The Human Life Review .
Read →Mikie Sherrill’s Crusade for the Abortion Industry By Marie Tasy, Executive Director, New Jersey Right to Life On August 20, 2026, Governor Mikie Sherrill signed legislation that further entrenches abortion in state law, and made certain the cameras were rolling as she did it. She stood outside Planned Parenthood in Montclair, flanked by abortion advocates, […]
Read →Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit to overturn Wisconsin's pro-life laws: a 24-hour waiting period and a stipulation that only physicians can commit abortions.
Read →A Colorado abortion clinic killed eighteen-year-old Lexi Arguello during a botched abortion. That clinic has called an ambulance thirteen times since, and Colorado still refuses to inspect it. The same state that...
Read →Planned Parenthood is suing Wisconsin to let non-doctors perform abortions. The judge who might decide the case used to work for Planned Parenthood herself. Now that same court could decide whether unborn...
Read →Planned Parenthood keeps putting pornographic books in your grandkids' school library. A coalition of Texas grandmothers and moms started reading those very books out loud at school board meetings. One school board...
Read →Lexi Arguello, an 18-year-old woman who was 22 weeks pregnant, died after undergoing a second trimester abortion at an unlicensed Planned Parenthood clinic in Fort Collins, Colorado, which lacks safety inspections and staff vetting. In response, Operation Rescue and a coalition of pro-life groups held a #JusticeForLexi campaign including press conferences, prayer rallies, and campus outreach to call for transparency, accountability, and legislation to regulate abortion clinics in Colorado following reports of 24 women injured since January 2025.
Read →Elizabeth, a young woman in Oklahoma in 1985, chose to have an abortion at a Planned Parenthood clinic, reflecting on the ease of access to abortion at the time and her lack of consideration for alternatives. Sheila Harper, another woman who had an abortion at 19, experienced long-term emotional trauma and later founded a ministry to help others recover from abortion, emphasizing that abortion can have deep biological and psychological effects on women.
Read →The US bishops' Catholic Campaign for Human Development has given over $400,000 in grants to Washington Interfaith Network (WIN), an organization led by a pro-LGBT female pastor and including leaders with strong ties to abortion advocacy and Planned Parenthood. WIN's leadership team features members such as Rev.
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