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Star Parker, CURE Exploit Gosnell Case to Promote Debunked ‘Black Genocide’ Narrative

On Tuesday, Star Parker is hosting a Gosnell pearl clutchathon, during which she will promote virulent, racist, and untrue facts about abortion in the Black community, with the help of far-right white conservatives like John Ashcroft and Ed Meese.

On Tuesday, Star Parker is hosting a Gosnell pearl clutchathon, during which she will promote virulent, racist, and untrue facts about abortion in the Black community, with the help of far-right white conservatives like John Ashcroft and Ed Meese.

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Legal Wrap: How Many Legal Challenges to the Birth Control Benefit Will Conservatives File?

The never-ending stream of legal challenges to the birth control benefit shows how focused the extreme right is on making safe, affordable health care an impossibility in this country.

The never-ending stream of legal challenges to the birth control benefit shows how focused the extreme right is on making safe, affordable health care an impossibility in this country.

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Texas HHS Committee Approves TRAP Bill

The state's senate health committee has approved a TRAP bill that would require abortion-providing doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital within thirty miles of where the procedure is performed.

The state’s senate health committee has approved a TRAP bill that would require abortion-providing doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital within thirty miles of where the procedure is performed.

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The Media and the Gosnell Case: A Case of Insecurity and a Misinformation Campaign

As one of the many journalists who has been covering the Gosnell story since it broke in early 2011, all I can say is: We tried to get the story out there.

Gosnell is the result of politicizing women’s health care, and his case, in turn, has been used to further politicize women’s health care.

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Media Silence on Gosnell? Let’s Talk About the Women of Color Without Decent Health Care

No one is talking about poor, under-insured, and under-served women.

As a resident of Philadelphia and an abortion provider, I can tell you that the Gosnell case has gotten media coverage. But no one is talking about poor, under-insured, and under-served women.

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New App Tracks Impact of Texas’ Family Planning Budget Cuts

Texans can now track the impact of state lawmakers' cuts to family planning funds using a web and mobile app developed university researchers.

Texans can now track the impact of state lawmakers’ cuts to family planning funds using a web and mobile app developed by university researchers.

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Texas Women’s Health Coalition Awarded Control of Federal Family Planning Dollars

The federal government has awarded a three-year Title X family planning grant to the Women's Health and Family Planning Association of Texas (WHFPT).

In a rare victory for reproductive health advocates in Texas, the federal government has awarded a federal Title X family planning grant not to the Department of State Health Services, but to a coalition of specialized family planning providers, including Planned Parenthood.

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Federal Judge: Planned Parenthood of Tennessee Can Continue HIV-Prevention Work

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Another federal court rules that conservatives can’t defund Planned Parenthood because it provides abortion care.

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Texas Senator Denies TRAP Bill Is Meant To Shut Down Abortion Facilities

Texas Senator Bob Deuell

The author of a Texas TRAP law said Tuesday he didn’t believe the bill would lead to closure of any abortion providing facilities, or reduce access to safe, legal abortion care for Texans, even though that’s exactly what it is meant to do.

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Watch Texas Sen. Dan Patrick Snipe and Holler His Way Through a Sex Ed Hearing

Texas Senator Dan Patrick

Patrick wants to keep Planned Parenthood from providing sex education curriculum in public schools. Watch how he treats citizens who respectfully disagree with him.

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