- Planned Parenthood Abortion Center Closes Instead of Following New Law
Monday was the first day that Planned Parenthood, which operates the only abortion business in South Dakota, had to comply with a new state law telling women the truth about abortion. Rather than tell women abortion kills children and has numerous risks, Planned Parenthood closed its doors.
07/ 22/08 - Planned Parenthood Needs More Scrutiny
Last year, Planned Parenthood performed more than 250,000 abortions, which account for about 1 in 5 of our country's total. Of all abortions, those performed for black women accounted for about a third of the procedures. It's also worth noting that a majority of Planned Parenthood's clinics are in minority neighborhoods.
07/ 15/08 - Black pro-lifers to ask NAACP to oppose taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood
Day Gardner: Planned Parenthood has basically bought off Barack Obama
07/ 15/08 - Black Pro-Lifers Demand Parties Refuse Planned Parenthood Funding
Democratic and Republican candidates must reject donations from Planned Parenthood this election year, and Congress should end all federal funding for the abortion provider, according to black pro-life leaders who held two press conferences last week in Washington, D.C., at Democratic and Republican Party Committee headquarters.
07/ 03/08 - Your Tax Money at Work Funding Abortions
For the last few decades, evangelicals repeatedly have mobilized and demonstrated to oppose the operation of abortion clinics. Over the years, many have believed that being anti-abortion had become a litmus test for their support of politicians and policies, which vie for evangelical votes.
07/ 03/08 - Inconvenient Truth for MSM: Black Ministers March Against Planned Parenthood
Exit poll after exit poll in election after election shows the Democratic Party is staunchly supported by an overwhelming majority of African-American voters, many of whom are much more socially conservative on issues like abortion than their party leadership.
07/ 03/08 - Candidates warned against Planned Parenthood money
Corporation's willingness to accept race-based contributions cited
07/ 02/08 - From our friends at KFL
Press release from Kansas for Life
06/ 27/08 - Planned Parenthood: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?
During the last few years, everyone in the nation has come to understand that things are not always the way they appear with individuals or organizations. While all of us struggle to live up to our ideals, some groups live permanently in the land of personal or professional compromise.
06/ 23/08 - The Greening of Planned Parenthood
Don’t look now, but as the business Planned Parenthood is in (unrestricted abortion) becomes less popular, the abortion leader aims to distract.
06/ 23/08 - Extending the Brand: PP Hits Suburbia
Abortion Provider Goes Upscale; Aid For Poor Questioned
06/ 23/08 - Planned Parenthood Timeline
1916: Margaret Sanger opens America's first birth control clinic, in Brooklyn, N.Y., at a time when contraceptive information and materials are illegal on grounds of obscenity. Today's Planned Parenthood traces its roots to that clinic.
06/ 23/08 - Planned Parenthood to Benefit from New War Funding Bill
Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading provider of surgical abortions, could save millions of dollars on abortion related drugs if a new war funding bill passes through the House this year, according to pro-life groups.
06/ 17/08 - Tiller trial postposed....again
Many of us expected this delay, delay, delay, until these misdemeanor charges will be allowed to go away. This was the entire plan when AG Morrison threw out all of the serious charges that meant something which were brought forth with probable cause.
06/ 17/08 - PLANNED PARENTHOOD TIMELINE OF KANSAS CASE
This is a great timeline to help follow what has happened in the Kansas legal case involving Planned Parenthood.
06/ 03/08
Details of abortion case unsealed
A Planned Parenthood clinic accused of performing illegal abortions and falsifying documents repeatedly has cited an attorney general's letter saying his review of the evidence showed no wrongdoing.
But clinic attorneys failed to persuade the Kansas Supreme Court to take judicial notice of that letter as the justices decide whether to force prosecutor Phill Kline to return patient records that could be crucial to the criminal case.
Kline, the Johnson County district attorney, has filed 107 charges against the clinic, Comprehensive Health in Overland Park, which contends they are unfounded. A preliminary hearing is scheduled to begin May 27 to determine whether the case will go to trial.
But even before Kline filed charges, the clinic went to the Supreme Court to get the patient records returned. Attorney General Steve Six also is pursuing a lawsuit there, with the same goal.
Most details about the legal dispute over the records remained secret for 11 months because both cases before the high court were under seal. The court unsealed them Friday, making hundreds of pages of documents public.
One document was a Planned Parenthood request for the justices to take judicial notice of the attorney general's letter clearing it of wrongdoing. When it unsealed the cases, the court rejected that request.
"It demonstrates that the clearance letter has no legal significance," Kline said Saturday.
The Supreme Court plans to hear arguments June 12 from attorneys in the Planned Parenthood lawsuit. It has told Six and other parties in his lawsuit to file written arguments by May 22 on whether that suit should be dismissed.
Peter Brownlie, president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, said he believes the court is aware of the letter, whether it takes judicial notice of it or not. He said Planned Parenthood and its attorneys had debated whether to make the request.
He called the Supreme Court's decision "insignificant."
"It was an effort to make sure that it was on the record before the Supreme Court," Brownlie said. "It doesn't make any difference in the case."
But anti-abortion activists disagreed. Mary Kay Culp, executive director of Kansans for Life, said the court had rejected "the contention that Planned Parenthood was innocent."
When courts take judicial notice of a document, they consider it evidence in a particular case. Often, courts won't consider documents evidence unless they make sure they are authentic first.
The Supreme Court dealt with the Planned Parenthood request in a single sentence, saying only that the letter "is not an appropriate subject for judicial notice."
The attorney general's office agreed. Spokeswoman Ashley Anstaett noted it didn't ask to have judicial notice taken of its letter.
"The court has not looked at the contents of the records," Anstaett said. "Thus, they have no way to verify our professional opinion."
Kline, an anti-abortion Republican, began investigating Planned Parenthood in 2003, when he was attorney general. He obtained copies of records from 29 patients' files, edited to remove identifying information, in October 2006, after a lengthy legal battle.
His investigation occurred under the supervision of District Judge Richard Anderson in Shawnee County, who concluded that there was probable cause to believe the records contained evidence of potential crimes.