Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the Women’s Empowerment Panel, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican legislation letting states deny federal family planning money to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers squeezed narrowly through the Senate Thursday, rescued by an ailing GOP senator […]
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Posted inLetters, sj-web
Planned Parenthood is vital
In 1994, I was 23 years old, living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and working a job that didn’t offer health insurance for its employees. I was in a relationship (with the man I eventually married), and having children at that time was not an option. Because of my low income while I put myself through […]
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GOP plan to ‘defund’ Planned Parenthood in Obamacare repeal concerns Collins
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that Republicans would slash federal dollars for Planned Parenthood as part of the GOP effort to repeal the health care law. Ryan spoke a day after a special House panel issued a report criticizing the organization, which provides birth control, abortions and various women’s health services, for […]
Posted inOp-Eds
Justice seldom gets more poetic
“A lie can get halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.” That nugget of wisdom dates from the 1800s, i.e., decades before anyone ever heard of the Internet — much less Fox “News.” If a lie traveled that fast in the 19th century, you can only imagine its speed […]
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Attorney says Lisbon man is victim of ‘pro-abortion’ politics
The civil rights complaint filed by Maine’s attorney general against a Lisbon man who yelled during a Planned Parenthood protest is a violation of the First Amendment, according to a Christian legal organization. Maine Attorney General Janet Mills announced Tuesday she had filed the complaint under the Maine Civil Rights Act against 26-year-old Brian Ingalls […]
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Portland ordered to pay $56,000 to Planned Parenthood protesters
PORTLAND — A failed attempt to limit where anti-abortion activists could gather on Congress Street has become costly for the city. An Oct. 8 agreement in U.S. District Court requires the city to pay $56,500 in legal fees to the five plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed in February 2014. The agreement also requires the city to […]
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Go back to being responsible
This is in response to the column by Connie Schultz (Oct. 3), “Standing tall for Planned Parenthood.” It sounded like Barack Obama trying to sell his health care plan. In her pride of siding with Parent Parenthood and their inhumane atrocities, she fails to see that the title of that organization is more than deceiving. […]
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In rebuttal: Support for Planned Parenthood misplaced
?The guest column (Oct. 11) by Sen. Dawn Hill and Rep. Sara Gideon was not very accurate and left a lot unsaid about Planned Parenthood. First off, abortion for health reasons or for birth control is one thing. Partial birth abortions and harvesting post-abortion baby parts for sale is quite another. Opposing the latter horribly […]
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Standing tall for Planned Parenthood
Seeing as it’s still all too common to depict a determined woman as an angry one, let’s be clear on who did and did not yell at the congressional hearing Tuesday. The headline in The Hill read, “Republican gets into shouting match with Planned Parenthood executive.” Alas, this is no closer to the truth than […]