“We believe that the Trump administration is doing this as an attack on reproductive health care and to keep providers like Planned Parenthood from serving our patients.”
The administration’s change in the Obama-era initiative requires grant recipients to promote an abstinence-only approach that research has found to be ineffective.
“We were claiming the sacredness of the space and the decisions that women and families make,” says Katey Zeh of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, the group that co-produced the first blessing ceremony with Planned Parenthood Metro-Washington.
Two dozen state legislatures have moved forward with efforts to defund Planned Parenthood. But one of the major tactics—blocking the health care centers from accepting Medicaid—is likely illegal.
Colorado Fraternal Order of Police: “In yesterday’s heroic police action the shooter was given the opportunity to surrender. The choice to live or die was his.”
Police gave Robert Lewis Dear Jr.—the alleged shooter and hostage-taker at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood—a choice: Come out peacefully and stay alive or remain inside and die. Dear decided to live. Imagine if Black people killed by police, like Chicago’s Laquan McDonald, had such a choice.
Planned Parenthood is the perennial target of anti-choice attacks, but the independent abortion providers that perform up to 80 percent of the procedures in the United States are also struggling. Here’s how the campaign against Planned Parenthood impacts clinics that don’t get much media attention or national support.
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