By The Hill. Planned Parenthood on Monday announced that two of its clinics in Ohio will close later this month after losing state and federal funding.

The organization blamed the closures on politicians who moved to “defund” Planned Parenthood for performing abortions. Neither of the two clinics performed the procedure, Planned Parenthood said. . .

Planned Parenthood gave up millions of dollars in federal funding last month after the Trump administration said the group would need to comply with a new rule banning it from referring women for abortions if it wanted to continue receiving government dollars.

Republican legislators in Ohio cut about $600,000 in state funding to Planned Parenthood this year after winning approval from a federal appeals court.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in March upheld a 2016 Ohio law banning preventive health funding from going to organizations that perform or promote abortions. (Read more from “Two Planned Parenthood Clinics Closing in Ohio After Funding Cuts” HERE)

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Planned Parenthood Clinics Reopens

By WBAA. The Fort Wayne Health Center operated by Planned Parenthood of Kentucky and Indiana INC. officially opened September 3, just over a year after it closed due to protests.

Planned Parenthood’s website lists the new location at 2930 Lake Avenue. It also lists services ranging from men and women’s health care, to HIV testing and birth control, as well as abortion referrals, but no abortion services. . .

In a Facebook post, Planned Parenthood of Kentucky and Indiana posted a bright pink image of the state of Indiana with a Planned Parenthood logo over the geographic location of Fort Wayne, under the words, ‘We’re Back!’ The caption accompanying the picture reads:

“Anti-reproductive health attacks on Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky’s Fort Wayne health center forced it to close, but we didn’t back down. Fort Wayne is open again and we will continue to fight back in the legislature and in the courts to ensure Hoosiers have access to the care they need and deserve.”

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By Life Site News. Nearly two years after Mayra Rodriguez sued the abortion provider Planned Parenthood for wrongful termination after she exposed negative health complications for women using their services, a jury awarded the Arizona woman $3 million in damages this past Friday.

Rodriguez worked for the abortion behemoth for 17 years. In 2017, she was fired by her employer “after repeatedly making claims that Planned Parenthood was endangering the health and safety of their patients,” according to LifeNews.com Specifically, Rodriguez reported “high complication rates for one abortionist” and also “exposed the abortionist’s illegal conduct falsification of affidavits and patient records, incomplete abortions, and failure to report a minor who had an adult partner and was a victim of statutory rape.”

Rodriguez, who ran three Planned Parenthood clinics in Arizona, turned to Abby Johnson’s “And Then There Were None” non-profit. Johnson, herself a former Planned Parenthood director, started the non-profit to encourage women to leave the abortion industry and reveal the truth about the organization. . .

Planned Parenthood receives more than $500 million annually from United States’ taxpayers for their activities. But, President Donald J. Trump’s administration recently won a significant legal hurdle which allows the federal government to block organizations, like Planned Parenthood, that receive Title X funding from using this money towards abortions. Planned Parenthood receives about $60 million each year from Title X funding. (Read more from “Woman Awarded $3 Million After Being Fired for Exposing Planned Parenthood’s Cruelty” HERE)

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Planned Parenthood Leaves Federal Program, Loses Funding for Low-Cost Services

By KCCI. Planned Parenthood announced Monday that it will not comply with a new Trump administration rule banning it from referring patients for abortion services.

In doing so, the nonprofit reproductive health care organization will no longer be eligible to receive federal Title X funding for family planning.

In Iowa, Planned Parenthood officials said Title X funds provided low-income patients with birth control and cancer screenings.

“Planned Parenthood will do everything in our power to continue to care for our patients and we will need to make up this money through some private funding (and) private donations to ensure all patients can get that health care they need,” said Jamie Burch Elliott, public affairs manager at Planned Parenthood North Central States. (Read more from “Planned Parenthood Leaves Federal Program, Loses Funding for Low-Cost Services” HERE)

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A federal judge in San Francisco handed a leading pro-life activist a major free speech win on Wednesday evening with a tentative ruling that would severely trim down Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit over undercover videos put out by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP).

The ruling from Judge William Orrick — whose “longstanding relationship” with Planned Parenthood has drawn protests from Daleiden’s team — rejected Planned Parenthood’s claim that CMP activists were trying to incite threats and violence against the abortion provider with the release of the investigative footage, a CMP news release explains.

“I am inclined to exclude from the case all damages that stem from third parties’ reactions to the release of the video recordings as impermissible publication damages barred by the First Amendment absent a defamation claim,” Orrick wrote. “This would include costs for personal security for plaintiffs’ staff and security guards for facilities; costs for physical upgrades to plaintiffs’ facilities (e.g., security cameras, fencing, bulletproof glass); costs to fix incidents of vandalism or arson; costs to address hacks of plaintiffs’ computer systems (including lost business due to inability to make reservations), as well as costs to prevent future intrusion into computer systems.”

Orrick said, “These damages are the result of third-party behavior and reaction to the publication of the video recordings.”

However, he added, “This would not include damages for investigating intrusions into plaintiffs’ conferences and facilities and improvements to access-security measures for conferences and facilities” or “nominal or statutory damages.”

In 2015, CMP released the first of many undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood’s alleged involvement in a lucrative fetal tissue racket. Planned Parenthood responded by taking the pro-life organization to court.

CMP said that definitively removing the third-party damage claims could not only decrease the scope of Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit from potentially around $20 million to around or under $100,000, but it would also strike a blow for citizen journalists like Daleiden and his colleagues.

“Now that all the facts, evidence, and testimony are in, even Planned Parenthood’s favorite judge refuses to buy into the abortion giant’s fake news and lies about the honest motives and protected speech of pro-life citizen journalists,” a statement from Daleiden reads. “Planned Parenthood is a government-sponsored crime syndicate selling baby body parts like widgets on an assembly line and should only appear in federal court as a criminal defendant.”

This is not the only court battle that Daleiden is facing for his undercover reporting. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld an almost $200,000 fine against the organization over videos released despite a judge’s gag order.

The state of California charged Daleiden with 15 felonies related to the videos in 2017, but the pro-life activist was granted a stay by the California Supreme Court in March. (For more from the author of “Pro-Life Activist Gets First Amendment Win From ‘Planned Parenthood’s Favorite Judge’” please click HERE)

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Judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday that a pro-life Trump administration rule blocking abortion providers from getting federal Title X dollars can go into effect for now.

A panel of three Republican-appointed judges found that there was no reason to continue lower courts’ injunctions against the proposed pro-life rule, since the Supreme Court already held up similar policies as constitutional almost 30 years ago.

“Absent a stay, HHS will be forced to allow taxpayer dollars to be spent in a manner that it has concluded violates the law, as well as the Government’s important policy interest in ensuring that taxpayer dollars do not go to fund or subsidize abortions,” the three judges wrote in a unanimous opinion.

The 2019 Title X revision, which was put forward back in February, “prohibits the use of Title X funds to perform, promote, refer for, or support abortion as a method of family planning” and also bars funding recipients from performing abortions or referring clients for abortions at the same physical facility that gets the taxpayer money.

The Ninth Circuit judge panel found this rule to be a “reasonable interpretation” of Title X, which was originally passed in 1970 and barred funds from going to “programs where abortion is a method of family planning,” per section 1008.

“We are pleased that the Ninth Circuit has cleared the way for this important executive branch action to take effect while our appeals are pending,” Department of Justice spokeswoman Kelly Laco said in a statement to Blaze Media. “The Department of Justice’s position is supported by long-standing Supreme Court precedent and we are confident we will ultimately prevail on appeal.”

“This ruling is a victory for President Trump and the majority of Americans who do not want to fund the abortion industry with their tax dollars,” pro-life SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a Thursday statement. “The Protect Life Rule simply draws a bright line between abortion and family planning, stopping abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood from treating Title X as their private slush fund without reducing funding by a dime. … We are encouraged by this news and confident the Trump administration will prevail.”

Abortion proponents, however, were steamed at the ruling.

“This decision is wrong,” tweeted Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. “It will hurt low-income & women of color most of all, making it much harder to find care.”

“The Trump administration’s Title X gag rule will deny access to basic reproductive health care for millions of people,” said 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. “I call that a violation of human rights.”

“The Trump-Pence administration’s gag rule is unethical, illegal, and harmful to public health—and Planned Parenthood will not stand for this attack on millions of people across the country,” said Planned Parenthood President Leana Wen. “We will immediately seek emergency relief from the Court of Appeals.” (For more from the author of “Ninth Circuit Judges Side with Trump Admin on Planned Parenthood” please click HERE)

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