In a move that could affect thousands of low-income women, Texas health officials delivered a final legal notice to defund the organization from the Medicaid program through which it provides family planning and women’s health services to the poor
“There’s a lot of things that they don’t want to be known. Planned Parenthood and my lawyer are in cahoots to shut me up. They don’t want the truth out,” said Dear during one of his interruptions.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Robert Lewis Dear, the suspect in the Nov. 27 attack at Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, yelled in court on Wednesday that he is guilty. “I am guilty there will be no trial. I am a warrior for the babies,” he said in an
The shooter described his “heroes” members of the Army of God, a loosely organized group of anti-abortion extremists.
As investigators scramble to make sense of last week’s tragic mass shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, new details have emerged about the possible motivations of the alleged gunman: namely, that his actions may have been inspired not only by politics, but also a warped understanding of the Christian
When a white man was captured alive after a deadly shooting in a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic, it brought renewed debate about a perceived double-standard in policing.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado --- Last week, a white man was captured alive after a five-hour shootout with police at a Planned Parenthood clinic that claimed the lives of three and injured nine. Coming just days after the one-year anniversary of Tamir Rice’s death, and amid a number of high-profile police brutality protests, the violent incident has
The Planned Parenthood clinic shootings, allegedly committed by Robert Lewis Dear, left three people dead including a police officer. Nine more people were wounded and the latest reports are that the shooter expressed anti-abortion and anti-government views.
"Hateful" speech by anti-abortion activists and politicians has contributed to Friday's shootings at the Colorado Springs, Colo. Planned Parenthood clinic, according to organization’s local CEO. "We've experienced so much hateful language... such a negative environment has been created around the work that Planned Parenthood does," said Vicki
Pro-life conservatives blasted the spectacle on Twitter. The editors of several prominent anti-abortion publications said the questioners were unprepared, incompetent and embarrassing.
On Tuesday, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards appeared before the House Oversight Committee. The committee is investigating Planned Parenthood in connection with a series of sting videos that allege the group illegally sold fetal body parts. (That allegation is
“Women shouldn’t have to ‘plan ahead’ for sexual assault, or be punished for not ‘prepping’ after being raped,” wrote petitioners seeking to get the bill struck down.
In December, the Michigan State Legislature approved a measure that would require women to purchase additional insurance for a health
