Cosmo's Filipovic Rips Twitchy as 'Organized Harassment Tool'

August 20th, 2015 5:20 PM
Jill Filipovic unleashed against Twitchy in a Wednesday item on Cosmopolitan's website. Filipovic decried how she had been "Twitchied," after she defended Planned Parenthood immediately after the Center for Medical Progress released its first undercover video on the abortion giant's harvesting of unborn babies' organs and tissue. She underlined that the conservative site's "role as an organized…
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Hayes Jabs Jeb for 'Anchor Babies' Remark: 'Babies' is 'Better' Term

August 20th, 2015 1:01 PM
Chris Hayes scolded Jeb Bush on the Wednesday edition of his MSNBC program for using the term "anchor babies." Hayes played a clip of Bush calling for "greater enforcement, so that you don't have these anchor babies, as they're described, coming into the country." He continued by pointing out that "Hillary Clinton responding with a Tweet: 'They're called babies' – which seems like a better term…
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Nets Censor PP Vid Describing Baby with 'Beating Heart' Being Cut Open

August 20th, 2015 2:56 AM
In what’s become commonplace, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC partnered with Spanish-language networks Telemundo and Univision to censor from their evening newscasts on Wednesday arguably the most disturbing video yet in the Planned Parenthood baby parts scandal that included a description of an abortion worker harvesting an aborted baby while their heart was still beating. 
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Abortion-Enabling Reporting on Univision

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August 19th, 2015 8:57 PM
The Planned Parenthood-sponsored campaign to overturn current anti-abortion laws in Peru received completely one-sided, favorable coverage on Univision’s principal national evening newscast.
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MSNBC Cheers Planned Parenthood ‘On the Offensive’, ‘Targeting’ GOP

August 18th, 2015 4:49 PM
On Tuesday’s MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts, fill-in anchor Frances Rivera eagerly promoted Planned Parenthood attacking Republicans: “Planned Parenthood is going on the offensive, releasing ads in four states targeting these senators, urging supporters to tell them not to shut down the government to defund Planned Parenthood.”
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Pitched Battle over Planned Parenthood on Univision

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August 17th, 2015 7:11 PM
Taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood was the subject of a heated exchange between competing Democrat and Republican panelists on Univision’s Sunday Al Punto program.
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Se calienta el debate sobre Planned Parenthood en Univision

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August 17th, 2015 4:47 PM
La financiación de Planned Parenthood con dinero del contribuyente fue objeto de un fuerte debate entre panelistas republicanos y demócratas durante el programa dominical de Univision, Al Punto.

News Corporations/Executives Have Deep Ties to Planned Parenthood

August 17th, 2015 2:45 PM
Joseph Schaeffer documented many major media outlets' connections to abortion giant Planned Parenthood in a Wednesday item for Crisis, an online Catholic magazine. Schaeffer, a former managing editor for the Washington Times National Weekly, spotlighted how Planned Parenthood's "surprisingly close ties to major media corporations can help explain why leading disseminators of the news in the U.S.…

Blogger: PP Videos Show Only ‘A Failed Attempt at a Sting’

August 15th, 2015 4:04 PM
The Week’s Paul Waldman agrees with conservatives that the undercover Planned Parenthood videos raise a profound moral issue, but disagrees sharply with them over what that issue is. In a Friday post, Waldman asserted that “this controversy simply has nothing to do with fetal tissue” and claimed that it’s really about the right’s disgust with women’s sexual “autonomy.” “Republicans have always…

Not News: StemExpress's Thursday Courtroom Setback Against CMP

August 14th, 2015 11:50 PM
As Spencer Raley at NewsBusters noted earlier this evening, StemExpress, "the now infamous biomedical company which allegedly bought fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood for profit, is breaking off its relationship with the nation’s leading abortion provider." Raley referenced a Politico item by Jennifer Haberkorn with a mid-afternoon Friday time stamp. As far as I can tell, it is the only…

AP's Double Standard in Covering States' Reactions to Fetal Parts Vids

August 8th, 2015 11:56 PM
The Associated Press has demonstrated a double standard in covering developments in various states in the wake of the gruesome Planned Parenthood videos posted by the Center for Medical Progress. Bad news for Planned Parenthood gets only local coverage. Exculpatory news, even if artificially concocted, gets national exposure. In Florida, a statewide review of the state’s 16 Planned Parenthood…
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Silent No More: Univision Carries Planned Parenthood’s Water

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August 6th, 2015 5:18 PM
And behold, the Center for Medical Progress opened the fifth seal, and thus came forth the most horrific revelations to date in the ongoing Planned Parenthood scandal, with talk of “intact fetal cadavers”, “just another line item” and the most damning admissions of apparent illegality to date. And lo, Univision News has at long last seen fit to come off the sidelines, albeit with entirely…

Blogger: Women Can Normalize Abortion By Saying They’ve Had One

August 6th, 2015 2:30 PM
Imagine an Abortion Pride Day parade in which women march while pushing empty strollers and baby carriages. That’s not far off from what Mother Jones pundit Drum recommended in a Wednesday post. Drum suggested that women who’ve had an abortion and believe they made the right choice ought to say so publicly, and that they should view out gays and lesbians as role models in that regard: “As long…
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FLASHBACK: In 2000, ABC Aired Undercover Report on Fetal Organ Trade

August 6th, 2015 2:21 PM
Planned Parenthood and its defenders have played up that the recent undercover videos were "highly-edited," and that producers are "not journalists," but "violent extremists." However, ABC aired their own segment on biomedical firms possibly breaking the law to obtain organs from unborn babies. In 2000, Chris Wallace, then with ABC, revealed on 20/20 that a "hidden camera investigation has found…