Planned Parenthood

Twenty-one-year-old Lila Rose is a superstar of the anti-abortion right, rubbing shoulders with conservatives like Gov. Tim Pawlenty and speaking at national events like last week’s Values Voter Summit. But her tactics — secretly videotaping visits to Planned Parenthood offices and presenting edited footage without context online — raise serious questions about journalistic ethics.

On the House floor Wednesday night, Rep. Michele Bachmann warned that the health insurance reform package currently being debated by Congress would set up “sex clinics” in schools where students “taken away” to have abortions.

In the Bizarro Land that is modern American politics, all is turned upside-down. Conservatives are toting dog-eared copies of “Rules for Radicals” by the late lefty Saul Alinsky, Jon Stewart has dubbed Fox News the “new liberals,” and — wait for it — Michele Bachmann, a vehement abortion opponent, is telling the government to keep [...]

The number of abortions performed in Minnesota declined in 2008 for the second straight year and marked the lowest number in more than 30 years. Reproductive health advocates said the decline is due to access to birth control and education, while the state’s largest anti-abortion group says programs to persuade pregnant woman from having an [...]

Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota (PPMNS) has been offered the protection of the U.S. Marshals Service in the wake of the murder of Dr. George Tiller. Tiller, a Kansas physician whose clinic performed later term abortions was gunned down in his church.
PPMNS has accepted the help of the U.S. Marshals.

Minnesota’s largest anti-abortion group says state-funded anti-abortion programs are responsible for a drop in the number of abortions among low-income women. If the group’s assertion is correct, the programs cost taxpayers more than $200,000 per woman successfully treated.

The budget proposed Tuesday by Gov. Tim Pawlenty would cut $2 million from the Family Planning Special Projects, a grant program that funds health departments, nonprofits and tribal governments that provide family planning services to low-income Minnesotans. The cut amounts to a 20-percent reduction.

A man who rammed his SUV into the Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Paul on Thursday told police that Jesus told him to do it, the Star Tribune reports. Matthew L. Derosia was watching a Catholic television channel when he says Jesus told him to “Stop the murderers.”
He told police that “we are in World [...]

When an SUV rammed the Planned Parenthood office on Ford Parkway in St. Paul yesterday on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, was the driver furthering terrorism in violation of Minnesota’s Patriot Act – a charge Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner leveled against eight Republican National Convention (RNC) protesters? Dave Mindeman at the Minnesota Network for [...]

More than 3,000 anti-abortion activists gathered at the state capitol to hear Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Sen. Norm Coleman at the annual “March for Life.” But one group garnering more attention was Planned Parenthood. Only hours after an anti-abortion activist slammed his SUV into a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Paul, rally attendees held up signs condemning the reproductive health organization, and MCCL speakers called for the defunding of the group they called the “abortion industry.”