The case, brought in 2007 by then-Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline, accused Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri of 107 charges, some of them felonies.
John Nugent, the CEO of Planned Parenthood of Maryland, in Baltimore, tells us that his gut feeling is that about 70% of people with insurance can use it as his nonprofit clinic.
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"Congress should not be playing politics with women's health, " Gloria Feldt of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America said in a statement.
Members include: ACORN, AFSCME, Americans United for Change, Campaign for America's Future, Center for American Progress Action Fund, MoveOn.org, National Council of La Raza, National Education Association, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Service Employees International Union, United Food and Commercial Workers, and USAction.
Cecile Richards, Statement Regarding Budget Deal, Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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The Planned Parenthood Federation of America is pushing for it to be included in a separate set of regulations on women's health expected to come out in the coming months.
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"While we fully support this expansion of access to birth control, we continue to believe that the administration should lift all unnecessary restrictions to emergency contraception, consistent with the prevailing science and medicine, " Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards said Tuesday in a statement.
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America is in its second year of running one of the largest text and chat outreach operations for people ages 15 to 24, targeting African-American and Latino youth through promotional campaigns on MTV, websites and mobile providers, social media, wallet cards, video and Seventeen magazine.
Following the highly charged week in which Komen pulled ( and ultimately reinstated) funding to a handful of Planned Parenthood affiliates, this resignation has been, to watchers of the situation, a long time coming.
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We haven't heard from the Governor any specifics beyond Big Bird and eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood in terms of how he pays for that.
In the state of Indiana, Planned Parenthood operates 28 health facilities, only 4 of which offer abortion services.
In a column last year on Planned Parenthood's bullying of the breast-cancer charity Susan G.
These figures come from the Guttmacher Institute, which for years was the research arm of Planned Parenthood.
The stated reason, as many readers may recall, was that Planned Parenthood was the subject of a government investigation.
Among Komen's reasons for discontinuing grants to Planned Parenthood was its policy of avoiding entanglements with entities under government investigation.
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That's especially true when it comes to the makeup of corporate America's leadership, said Feldt, a former president of Planned Parenthood.
Komen For The Cure to pull its support of Planned Parenthood.
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Asked about Ginsburg's musings, Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood said the Roe ruling was critically needed to curb unsafe abortions in states where the procedure was outlawed.
Romney added to the debate by saying he wanted to "get rid" of Planned Parenthood, a comment that referred to its government funding but was seized on by Democrats as a full-fledged assault against the organization.
"If, as plaintiffs argue, a successor program must be Medicaid-funded then the only legal remedy would be for this court to shut down the state-funded women's health program, not to order the inclusion of Planned Parenthood, " Judge Yelenosky wrote in the ruling.
Komen is sticking to the story that they had no choice but to pull the funding once Republican Congressman Cliff Sterns, a long-time opponent of Planned Parenthood, began a Congressional investigation to determine if Planned Parenthood has violated the rules that prohibit them from spending taxpayer money on abortion services.
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"North Dakota's governor today effectively banned abortion in the state, with an outrageous and unconstitutional law that will not stand, " said Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
But not resolving abortion to the satisfaction of NARAL or Planned Parenthood?
Planned Parenthood and fellow plaintiff Marcela Balquinta of McAllen, Texas, filed the request for a temporary restraining order seeking exclusion from the new law, arguing the organization provides preventative women's health care not associated with abortions to nearly 50, 000 Texas enrollees annually.
In the wake of the announcement, Planned Parenthood announced it would change the way it administers drug-induced abortions.
As you point out, Daniels could have followed federal policy and prohited the use of Medicaid funds for abortions and left the rest of the funding for Planned Parenthood in place.
Yet it is hard to believe that the Republicans' problem with women has not been aggravated by Mr Santorum's obsession with who is doing what to whom in the bedroom, or by Mr Romney's promise to defund Planned Parenthood, the organisation on which millions of poor women depend for family planning (including abortion), or by the antics of Republican state legislatures.
Many of the entities, with Planned Parenthood being the most prominent, already furnish free contraceptives.
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In fact, only 6% of the funds spent by Planned Parenthood in Indiana go towards abortion services.
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