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  • **FILE** President Obama hugs Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, after she introduced the president at a campaign event where he spoke about choice facing women in the election rally at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., on Oct. 19, 2012. (Associated Press)

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  • **FILE** A Planned Parenthood clinic in Overland Park, Kan., is seen on June 22, 2011. (Associated Press)

    Lawmakers ask if taxes fund abortion; Planned Parenthood targeted in inquiry

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  • **FILE** A Planned Parenthood clinic in Overland Park, Kan., is seen on June 22, 2011. (Associated Press)

    Gov't watchdog asked to look again at Planned Parenthood finances

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  • Illustration: Abortion by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    GRAYSON: Death for cold, hard cash

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  • Illustration Abortion Numbers by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

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  • **FILE** Lisa King (left) and Gus Turner hold pro-choice signs in front of the Supreme Court Building in 2009 while debating with pro-life protesters at the annual March for Life rally. (The Washington Times)

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  • Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

    FRANZONELLO: What's Planned Parenthood afraid of?

    When it comes to feminist goals, working to end sex-selection abortions should be common ground for all sides. It is a real war on women, costing the lives of girls simply because they are girls. While mainstream American values reject gender-based killings as patently offensive, in this war on women in the womb, Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry are on the side of abortion-trumps-all.

  • **FILE** Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (Associated Press)

    States make headway on abortion restriction

    At least 75 bills to restrict abortion passed one state legislative chamber in the first quarter of 2012, the Guttmacher Institute said Friday.

  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Prophylactic pitfalls

    In her letter "Cost a barrier to contraceptives' effectiveness" (Monday), Cory L. Richards, executive vice president of the Guttmacher Institute, asserted that President Obama's mandate that women be given free contraception, including emergency contraception, "has nothing to do with funding abortion." This is incorrect because oral and implanted contraceptives may function to prevent the implementation of a new human being in the uterus, thereby killing him.

  • Cancer charity halts grants to Planned Parenthood

    The nation's leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is halting its partnerships with Planned Parenthood affiliates _ creating a bitter rift, linked to the abortion debate, between two iconic organizations that have assisted millions of women.

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