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Planned Parenthood starts new campaign to stave off anti-abortion-rights measures in 2012

By | 11.09.11 | 5:56 pm

Leading up to the 2012 election, women are watching — more specifically, Planned Parenthood is watching.

‘Fox & Friends’ misleads on ongoing lawsuit between anti-abortion-rights group and former Dem congressman

By | 10.27.11 | 1:06 pm

Fox News’ morning show “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday oversimplified and misrepresented an ongoing news story about a former Democratic congressman, an anti-abortion-rights group and the new health-care reform law.

SBA List to use House approval of anti-abortion bill as evidence in defamation suit

By | 10.18.11 | 10:21 am

Despite general belief that the “Protect Life Act” —  which would bar tax-subsidized health-care plans from covering abortion services under the Affordable Care Act — has little chance of becoming federal law, the bill’s passage in the House last week may be used as fodder to help the anti-abortion-rights More…

Anti-abortion-rights groups prepared to push state fetal heartbeat bills

By | 10.17.11 | 4:57 pm | More from The Florida Independent

As state legislatures prepare for new sessions, anti-abortion groups are getting ready to push state-level bills that would force women to hear a fetal heartbeat before undergoing an abortion.

Live Action plans exposé on Planned Parenthood sex-ed programs

By | 10.14.11 | 5:09 pm

Image by: Matt MahurinThe group that brought America “Undercover at Planned Parenthood,” a shaky, 11-minute video shot clandestinely by undercover anti-abortion-rights activists, is working on a new project aimed to convince more people that Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) does not deserve any federal funding for the non-abortion services it provides More…

SBA List ad attacks Obama and his ‘one friend,’ abortion providers

By | 09.22.11 | 11:50 am

Anti-abortion-rights policy group the Susan B. Anthony List this week launched an attack video against President Barack Obama, depicting his only friends as abortion providers amid dwindling support from other groups.

Jindal to speak at FRC Action’s Values Voter Summit

By | 09.22.11 | 11:09 am

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is the latest confirmed speaker at next month’s Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., the Family Research Council, which is hosting the conservative policy summit through its policy arm, announced Wednesday.

Perry pledges to select only ‘pro-life’ cabinet members if president

By | 08.24.11 | 4:37 pm

Texas Gov. Rick Perry — currently in the lead, according to Gallup, to be the Republican nominee for president in 2012 — signed (PDF) on Wednesday the Susan B. Anthony List’s controversial anti-abortion pledge.

Perry to co-chair gala for influential anti-abortion rights group

By | 08.15.11 | 2:50 pm

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.

McCotter: ‘We understand that we can only have a prosperous economy if we have a virtuous citizenry’

By | 08.11.11 | 3:34 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

Appearing as part of an Iowa bus tour launched by national religious conservatives, U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter told Iowans Thursday that fiscal and social issues aren’t separable.