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Prioritizing Funding for Women’s Primary Health Care

The Pennsylvania Senate Finance Committee voted 7-5 in favor of Senate Bill 300 which will prioritize the funding of women’s health services and family planning. In effect, the bill would direct the limited federal and state public funding first to the most efficient and comprehensive
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April 27, 2017
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Urge Senators to Disapprove Planned Parenthood Title X Funding Rule

Human Life Action has issued this action alert to contact Congress: We have an opportunity to encourage the Senate to restore the states’ ability to stop some of the federal funding to Planned Parenthood. As you know, a river of federal money currently runs to the nation’s largest abo
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February 22, 2017
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Planned Parenthood: Setting the Record Straight

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops researched the facts about the Planned Parenthood debate. Here is a fact sheet to help set the record straight. (Download a printable version here) In 2015, a series of undercover videos showed officials of the Planned Parenthood Federa
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October 02, 2015
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Speak the Truth about Contraception and Abortion

Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth. – John 17:17 Congress is facing an emotional debate – should tax dollars intended to support women’s health go to organizations that promote abortion, like Planned Parenthood? Historically tax dollars have been prohibited from directly
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September 11, 2015
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Lawmakers Call for Prohibition of Taxpayer Funding for Planned Parenthood

Legislation to prohibit Planned Parenthood and other abortion-on-demand providers from receiving taxpayer funding was introduced yesterday as House Bill 2405 – the Whole Woman’s Health Funding Priorities Act. “Across the United States, Planned Parenthood performs an abortion every 95
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May 24, 2012
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Things Planned Parenthood’s ‘Truth Team’ forgot to mention

Susan E. Wills, Esq. , Assistant director for education and outreach, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, wrote this interesting piece at AmericanThinker.com Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) has dispatched a “Truth Team&#
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April 15, 2011
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Bishops to Congress: Defunding Planned Parenthood ‘not one of those hard choices’

In an April 13 letter to the U.S. House of Representatives, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston urged Congress to vote for a resolution to ban federal funding of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. In the midst of a budget debate involving shared sacrifice and hard
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April 14, 2011
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