White House Seeking Volunteers for Planned Parenthood

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

An inquisitive reporter at a Houston newspaper discovered that the president’s new serve.gov website promoting volunteerism contains requests from Planned Parenthood for volunteers to help “protect access to women’s health during the 40 Days for Life.”

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Pro-Life Calls and E-Mails Are Impacting Health Care Debate

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

Even with abortion funding imbedded in every health care reform bill currently moving through Congress, Planned Parenthood’s president says pro-life citizens are way ahead of abortion supporters when it comes to contacting legislators about their cause.

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Pro-Abortion Groups Say Little About Shooting of Pro-Lifer

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

Compared to the outrage leveled against pro-life groups after the murder of late-term abortionist George Tiller in May, pro-abortion groups have had little to say about the shooting death of a pro-life activist whose public position on abortion displeased his killer.

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U.S. Bishops Take On Planned Parenthood

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer

Responding to attacks by the president of Planned Parenthood criticizing the U.S. bishops work to exclude abortion coverage from health care legislation, an official from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) sets the record straight.

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H.R. 3200 Could Allow Planned Parenthood Clinics in Schools

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
 
If the current version of health care reform passes, it would do much more than just provide taxpayer funding of abortion on demand. The bill also contains a section that could allow Planned Parenthood to open clinics in public schools.

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FOCA-by-Stealth to be Hidden in Health Care Reform

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer

Pro-abortion forces in the U.S. may have abandoned the idea of pursuing the radical Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), but congressional leaders are pushing hard for votes in late July on two “health care reform” bills that contain provisions that would vastly expand access to abortion on demand, override state abortion laws, and establish federal funding of abortion.

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Abortion Supporters Infuriated by Pro-Life Amendment to “Obamacare”

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer

Senator Tom Coburn,  a medical doctor,  has enraged abortion proponents by filing an amendment to President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform package authorizing the institution of the Office of Unborn Children’s Health.

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