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After Komen Cut, Donations to Planned Parenthood Rise

Backlash fierce as foundation cuts cancer screening funds

(Newser) - The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation's decision to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood has sparked a fierce backlash, with at least two petitions cropping up urging the cancer foundation to change its mind, and a slew of donations flooding into Planned Parenthood itself, the LA Times...

Komen Cancer Charity Cuts Planned Parenthood Funds

Abortion at the center of controversial move

(Newser) - Big news on the women's health front: AP reports that the breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure is cutting its ties with Planned Parenthood. The move, which centers on abortion, will mean the end of "hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants" for breast cancer...

iPhone's Siri 'Can't Find' Abortion Clinics

But it will point users toward escorts, marijuana, and body dumps

(Newser) - Siri, the iPhone 4S' virtual assistant, can tell you how much wood a woodchuck could chuck or where to hide a dead body, but it draws a blank when asked for the location of abortion clinics or emergency contraception services. In Washington, DC, users are directed to anti-abortion pregnancy centers...

New Rules Could Shut Virginia Abortion Clinics

State's Board of Health passes stringent requirements

(Newser) - Virginia's Board of Health yesterday passed abortion clinic rules so stringent that critics say they could force most or all 22 of the state's abortion providers to shut down, reports the Virginia Pilot . The rules— approved by state lawmakers earlier this year —are thought to be the...

Kansas Judge Blocks Law to Defund Planned Parenthood

Says he believes it is unconstitutional

(Newser) - A federal judge ruled today that Planned Parenthood would likely succeed in overturning a new Kansas law that would deny the group access to federal family planning funding, saying he believes the law is unconstitutional and was intended to punish Planned Parenthood for advocating for abortion rights. US District Judge...

NH Council Defunds Planned Parenthood

Group no longer able to dispense low-cost birth control after contract axed

(Newser) - In New Hampshire, a five-member council has overruled the state legislature and cut off $1.8 million in funding to Planned Parenthood. The state's Republican-dominated Executive Council, which must approve all state contracts greater than $10,000, has axed state funding for the group and removed its authority to...

Texas Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood

Major health care reform law headed for Perry's desk

(Newser) - Texas is set to become the latest—and largest—state to cut funding to Planned Parenthood. An omnibus health care bill passed by the state legislature and headed for Gov. Rick Perry's desk blocks Planned Parenthood from receiving some $38 million in state family planning money and from taking...

Indiana Planned Parenthood Cuts Off Medicaid Users

Court battle continues, with ruling expected July 1

(Newser) - Planned Parenthood's struggles continues in Indiana ... and Wisconsin. In the former state, thousands of low-income patients will officially have to find a way to pay for birth control and medical exams. In the wake of a new law eliminating the organization's Medicaid funding, Planned Parenthood yesterday began turning...

Feds Block Indiana Planned Parenthood Law

State law cutting Medicaid funds is illegal, White House decides

(Newser) - The White House has— as promised —moved to block an Indiana law that strips Planned Parenthood of Medicaid funds . State officials have been notified that the law, which cuts off funding to Planned Parenthood because some clinics perform abortion services, violates Medicaid rules because states aren't allowed to...

Onion's 'Abortionplex' Gets Yelp Page

It's 'fun fun fun,' users rave

(Newser) - The Abortionplex started out as a whopper of an Onion tale , but took on a life of its own when a few Facebook users, believing it was true, got hilariously angry about it . Now it has spawned a Yelp page, complete with a 3.5-star rating based on more than...

WH Vows to Block Indiana Planned Parenthood Law

Medicaid recipients have right to choose providers: White House

(Newser) - Indiana’s new law that strips Planned Parenthood of Medicaid funds took effect on May 10—but it's subject to federal review, and the White House says it won’t approve the measure. The Obama administration, which says the law denies Medicaid recipients’ right to choose healthcare providers, has...

Planned Parenthood Fights Back in Indiana

Will seek restraining order to halt defunding

(Newser) - Mitch Daniels signed a bill yesterday to defund Planned Parenthood in Indiana effective immediately, but the organization says it will try to prevent the move by seeking a temporary restraining order and injunction with the help of the ACLU. The bill cuts off government funding to any entity that offers...

Mitch Daniels Will Defund Indiana's Planned Parenthood

Governor will sign bill cutting off federal funds to group in his state

(Newser) - Factor this into the 2012 political calculus: Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniel says he will sign a bill that defunds Planned Parenthood and puts in place strict anti-abortion measures, reports the Indianapolis Star . Daniels, who promises to announce soon whether he's running for president, will make Indiana the first state...

Left Is Pro-Choice to ‘Level Playing Field’ for Lesbians

Pat Robertson explains the liberal support for Planned Parenthood

(Newser) - Why do liberals support Planned Parenthood? Pat Robertson thinks he knows. Right Wing Watch points to a recent episode of The 700 Club in which Robertson explained to co-host Terry Meeuwsen that the left is just trying to put straight women and lesbians "on a level playing field."...

Jon Kyl Strikes Ridiculed Comment From Record

The one about Planned Parenthood that wasn't intended to be 'factual'

(Newser) - It's the perfect ending, really. Jon Kyl has officially removed from the Congressional Record his comment that 90% of Planned Parenthood's business is abortion, notes Ben Smith's blog at Politico. That, you'll recall, is the statement that drew scorn because it's so wildly inaccurate and...

Obama Caught Griping About GOP Sneakiness

Reporter eavesdrops on conversation between prez, donors

(Newser) - President Obama gave campaign donors a candid, insider account of the budget debate—apparently unaware that his microphone was still broadcasting his remarks to the White House press room. Obama told donors yesterday that Republicans had tried to slip their agenda into the budget bill, but he’d put his...

Senate Rejects Move to Defund Planned Parenthood

Defunding bill shot down after passing House

(Newser) - A measure to defund Planned Parenthood was shot down in the Senate after passing the House by a vote of 241-185. The Senate vote was 42-58, with five Republicans rejecting the stand-alone measure: Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts, Mark Kirk of Illinois, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Susan Collins and...

Planned Parenthood Ruckus Is About Contraception

But foes twist facts and turn it into anti-abortion crusade: Gail Collins

(Newser) - Gail Collins thinks an important word is missing in the Planned Parenthood debate: Contraception. Jon Kyl and others prefer using a different word: Abortion. It makes for an easier target, even though, as Stephen Colbert comically made clear , abortions make up only a minuscule part of Planned Parenthood's work. What...

Colbert to Fox: No, You Can't Get Pap Smear at Walgreens

No, you cannot get a breast exam at Walgreens

(Newser) - During the recent budget brawl, Republican Sen. Jon Kyl argued against government funding for Planned Parenthood—since, as he said, "well over 90% of what Planned Parenthood does" is abortions. "That is unbelievable!" said Stephen Colbert last night . "In that it is not true. Because only...

Planned Parenthood Is 'LensCrafters' of Abortion: Bachmann

She also rips gay marriage, Department of Education

(Newser) - Republicans trying to woo conservative Iowans are likely to find Michele Bachmann a hard act to follow. The Minnesotan, speaking to a conservative group last night, slammed "liberal policies" on abortion, same-sex marriage, and health care reform, the Des Moines Register reports. She labeled Planned Parenthood the "LensCrafters...

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