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Anti-abortion group looking into Planned Parenthood relationship with HHS Sec. Sebelius

By | 10.28.11 | 11:54 am | More from The Florida Independent

Operation Rescue has joined other anti-abortion groups in Kansas in a campaign accusing U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius of being involved in the 2004 destruction of records related to allegations made against Planned

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Kansas group attacks Health and Human Services secretary for Planned Parenthood case

By | 10.24.11 | 4:58 pm | More from The Florida Independent

The anti-abortion group Kansans for Life is taking aim at U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary and former Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius for a 2005 case involving Planned Parenthood.

Operation Rescue offers ammunition to House GOP trying to pass anti-abortion insurance bill

By | 10.13.11 | 9:40 am

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Anti-abortion-rights group Operation Rescue has released its most recent undercover look at the American abortion industry, using excerpted audio recordings to show “millions of tax dollars are already paying for abortions each year.”

Anti-abortion-rights activist hopes to be the David to Boehner’s Goliath in House primary

By | 09.20.11 | 1:04 pm

Tuesday afternoon, in Speaker of the House John Boehner’s home state, anti-abortion-rights protesters are organizing a rally to encourage the Ohio Senate to pass controversial legislation that would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected.

Anti-abortion Operation Rescue calls Priests for Life ‘financial improprieties’ allegations ‘unfounded attack’

By | 09.14.11 | 4:45 pm | More from The Florida Independent

The anti-abortion group Operation Rescue announced today that it is standing behind the leader of Priests for Life, Frank Pavone. Pavone was recently suspended from “engaging in active ministry outside the Diocese of Amarillo, Texas, as a result of concerns about financial improprieties.”

Leader of Priests for Life suspended for suspicion of financial impropriety

By | 09.13.11 | 2:12 pm | More from The Florida Independent

According to Catholics for Choice, a religious pro-reproductive rights group, the leader of Priests for Life, Frank Pavone, “has been suspended from engaging in active ministry outside the Diocese of Amarillo, Texas, as a result of concerns about financial improprieties.”

Pavone has been a prominent figure in the anti-abortion movement. More…

Operation Rescue president: FACE Act enforcement is political move to silence abortion protests

By | 09.01.11 | 2:35 pm | More from The Florida Independent

In a recent story on NPR about the  Obama administration’s ramped-up enforcement of the FACE Act, Operation Rescue President Troy Newman says the enforcement is really just a “political tool” to shut down abortion protesters. #

Upcoming anti-abortion rights conference presupposes demise of Roe v. Wade

By | 08.31.11 | 10:52 am

The youth-focused anti-abortion rights group Students for Life of America (SFLA) recently announced its upcoming annual national conference with a theme of “Envision,” as in “Envision … a World Without Abortion.”

Low-budget anti-abortion rights film director aims to influence more policy, get message to youth

By | 08.17.11 | 12:32 pm

Despite its minuscule marketing budget and no national distributor, the anti-abortion rights film “Bloodmoney” has already influenced public policy. “Bloodmoney” filmmakers are hoping that as more people, particularly high school and university students, see the film, the impact on the abortion debate will go even further.

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Anti-abortion groups to continue protesting outside Carhart’s clinic, demanding stricter abortion clinic regs

By | 08.05.11 | 5:25 pm

The end is near for the first week Summer of Mercy 2.0, the anti-abortion rights protest targeting Dr. LeRoy Carhart’s abortion clinic in Germantown, Md., where abortions are performed on women who are more than 22 weeks pregnant.