Americans United for Life, an anti-abortion-rights group that has its sights set on Planned Parenthood, announced yesterday that the group has hired Abby Johnson, the Planned Parenthood employee turned high-profile anti-abortion advocate.
Anti-abortion-rights organization Americans United for Life has started shopping around a new narrative in its continued effort to defund Planned Parenthood. This narrative eschews “abortion” and embraces “taxpayer” and “bipartisan.”
Following his formal entrance into the 2012 presidential race on Saturday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed on to co-chair an anniversary gala for the influential anti-abortion rights policy group Americans United for Life, which was founded in 1971.
The day after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services upheld the Institute of Medicine’s recommendation to include contraception in its list of preventive health services for women under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) introduced legislation intended to to allow health care More…
The Institute of Medicine’s recent recommendation to the U.S. Department of Health to include birth control services in a list of preventive services for women has incited controversy among anti-abortion rights advocates where there should not be, members of the IOM panel said at a National Press Club briefing Wednesday. More…
A four-year pending criminal case against a Planned Parenthood clinic in Overland Park, Kans., has been scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Oct. 24-27 to determine whether evidence supports 107 charges (including 23 felonies) against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, reports the Kansas City Star.
Less than a week after the public-interest law firm Americans United for Life (AUL) sent U.S. House members a lengthy report alleging 20 years of federal-funding violations committed by Planned Parenthood Federation of America, at least eight representatives — most of them freshmen — have shown interest in potentially launching More…
The Susan B. Anthony List is among the anti-abortion rights groups taking credit for the trend of states cutting federal funding for reproductive services in the name of defunding Planned Parenthood. But, this Washington, D.C.-based group is actually keeping score.
Two Republican members of Congress will hold a press conference Thursday to discuss Americans United for Life’s recent report accusing Planned Parenthood Federation of America of criminal wrongdoing.
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As The American Independent previously reported, anti-abortion rights group Americans United for Life (AUL) released Thursday a report of allegations against Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), some of which date back several years. Accompanying the group’s findings is a call for Congress to begin a taxpayer-funded More…
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