The violent language used by the Maine legislators regarding Planned Parenthood (guest column, Sept. 27) is deeply disturbing, apart from the unfounded accusations. Their references to “butchering of unborn babies,” “harvesting from baby bodies,” and “murder” demonizes everyone with another view. I place very high value on the lives of those human beings who have […]
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Put an end to Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood is in the news and Republicans in Washington, D.C., are talking about defunding the organization. It currently receives in excess of $500 million from the federal treasury and we believe that should stop. The organization claims that they provide women’s services. What they really provide, as recent videos have proven, is straight up […]
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Repent from our wicked ways
Vile. Inhumane. Barbaric. Immoral. Those are just a few words I can think of to describe Planned Parenthood’s latest atrocity — the sale of fetal tissue from aborted babies. Those same words could be used to describe those in the U.S. Senate who voted to continue funding that evil organization to the tune of a […]
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All about that 3 percent figure
The nation’s premier provider of abortions doesn’t want to be known for providing abortions. Planned Parenthood, embroiled in a scandal over secret videos capturing its cavalier dismemberment of unborn babies and sale of their body parts, insists that abortion is only 3 percent of what it does. Practically every defender of the organization, fighting to […]
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Analysis: Democrats twist Sen. Susan Collins’ Planned Parenthood stand
Republican Sen. Susan Collins is mired in a bit of a storm regarding a procedural vote she took Monday on a bill that sought to defund Planned Parenthood and its affiliates. If you haven’t heard, the organization is at the center of a controversy around the release of a video by anti-abortion activists that shows […]
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Collins and King take issue with bill to defund Planned Parenthood
WASHINGTON — Maine’s U.S. senators took similar positions Monday in a controversial debate over federal funding for Planned Parenthood following the release of a series of undercover videos by an anti-abortion group. U.S. Sens. Susan Collins, a Republican, and Angus King, an independent, made speeches in the Senate urging their colleagues to oppose completely defunding […]
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Secret recordings could be catalyst to end late abortions
“Thank you Planned Parenthood. God bless you.” — Barack Obama, address to Planned Parenthood, April 26, 2013 WASHINGTON — Planned Parenthood’s reaction to the release of a clandestinely recorded conversation about the sale of fetal body parts was highly revealing. After protesting that it did nothing illegal, it apologized for the “tone” of one of […]
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Selling of baby parts should shock no one
“…if we come to see ourselves as meat, then meat we shall become.” — Leon Kass, M.D., “Toward a More Natural Science” What is most shocking about an undercover video of a conversation between Deborah Nucatola, a Planned Parenthood executive, and two antiabortion activists from the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) posing as employees from […]
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Planned Parenthood caught telling truth
It’s hard to have an honest debate about abortion in this country, when the issue is so often shrouded in evasion and deception. That’s why we owe a debt to Deborah Nucatola. She is willing to tell it the way it is. She eschews careful talking points meant to obscure rather than illuminate and doesn’t […]
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Planned Parenthood, critics in dispute over ‘escalation’ of Portland protests
PORTLAND — About a month before City Councilors may consider new regulations on protests outside the offices of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, clinic spokeswoman Nicole Clegg said intimidation of clients is increasing. “The loss of the city’s buffer zone was felt keenly this past week when dozens of protesters descended upon our health […]