Press Releases

The recent two-month long campaign by activists who call themselves the Center for Medical Progress is not unique — in fact it is only the latest in a decade’s worth of similar, discredited attacks against Planned Parenthood, according to a new memo released by the nonprofit women’s health provider today.

Dec. 28, 2015 • National

Today, two top House Democrats --- Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. John J. Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the Committee on the Judiciary --- sent a letter asking the Chairs of their Committees to suspend their “one-sided” investigations of Planned Parenthood, or to also fully investigate the group of anti-abortion extremists calling themselves the Center for Medical Progress for numerous possible violations of state and federal law.

Dec. 28, 2015 • National

Officials in Iowa have announced that they will not investigate Planned Parenthood in relation to extremist attacks about fetal tissue donation — adding to a growing number of states from across the country that have cleared Planned Parenthood affiliates of any wrongdoing or declined to investigate (more HERE and HERE).

Dec. 28, 2015 • National

Anti-abortion extremists who are releasing heavily edited, deceptive videos about Planned Parenthood have acknowledged that their latest video included false and misleading information, posting a clarification to their YouTube page yesterday that an image they suggested was from an abortion was actually a photo of a stillborn fetus.

Dec. 28, 2015 • National

Pennsylvania today joined a growing number of states from across the country who have cleared Planned Parenthood affiliates of any wrongdoing (more HERE and HERE).

Dec. 28, 2015 • National

Led by Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the U.S.Senate today voted down a budget bill that would have stripped Planned Parenthood of its federal funding by a bipartisan vote of to 52-47.

Dec. 28, 2015 • National

Begun nearly a century ago and rooted in the courage and tenacity of American women and men willing to fight for women's health, rights, and equality, Planned Parenthood is committed to continually improving access to reproductive and sexual health care and information.

Dec. 28, 2015 • National

An extreme flank of Congress has taken 14 votes to restrict women’s access to reproductive health care in the past few months, with four in September alone; forced Speaker Boehner to announce his resignation from Congress; and just last night announced an additional special panel focused solely on investigating Planned Parenthood — prompting both the DNC’s Donna Brazile and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi this Sunday to call out the disarray the extreme flank of the Republican Party is causing in Congress.

Dec. 28, 2015 • National

Women in the United States have been safely and legally using mifepristone and misoprostol for medication abortion for over a decade.

Dec. 28, 2015 • National