FIRST ON FOX: Former Vice President Mike Pence's conservative watchdog nonprofit is urging Elon Musk, head of Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), to cut off "wasteful" federal spending on Planned Parenthood. "For the sake of the American people and generations yet unborn, the time has come for the United States to finally defund the largest abortion provider in America," Tim Chapman, president of Advancing American Freedom, wrote in a letter to Musk on Tuesday. Planned Parenthood received approximately $75 billion in federal funding from 2019 to 2021, including $22...

The suspected perpetrator of a May 2023 attack on two elderly pro-life activists has been found guilty of several charges by a jury and faces the possibility of decades in prison. The American Center for Law and Justice announced that the jury in Maryland found 28-year-old Patrick Brice guilty of four charges related to the brutal assault of two elderly pro-life activists outside a Planned Parenthood in Baltimore. Brice was convicted on two counts of second-degree assault and two counts of reckless endangerment in connection with the beating of Mark...

Lower courts upheld the right of a Medicaid recipient to sue the state over future medical treatment she might receive from the abortion provider. Medicaid is a joint federal-state program that offers health insurance coverage to low-income Americans. Planned Parenthood is a major provider of abortion services. It also offers other services such as birth control, testing for pregnancy and venereal diseases, and sex education.

A pro-life activist and journalist who secretly recorded videos of Planned Parenthood officials allegedly negotiating the sale of aborted fetal tissue is celebrating after settling with the state of California and walking away without any prison time or fines. "The California Attorney General's office, after nine years of pursuing this case very vigorously, very viciously and very selectively, is walking away with nothing," Center for Medical Progress (CMP) founder and independent journalist David Daleiden told Fox News Digital.

Backlash over a Planned Parenthood role he has held since 2011 forced out the TMB's chief, as per a resignation letter obtained by the Statesman. Republican-led backlash over the Texas Medical Board chief's longstanding, approved role at Planned Parenthood forced him to resign as head of the state physician watchdog agency in December, the doctor said in a resignation letter obtained by the American-Statesman. TMB Medical Director Dr. Robert Bredt became the subject of an online firestorm over the holidays after his part-time position directing a San Antonio laboratory for...

California has agreed to drop all charges against David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, following years of legal battles over the pro-life activists’ release of undercover videos showing abortion providers discussing the procurement and selling of aborted babies' body parts. The Center for Medical Progress, the pro-life group overseen by Daleiden, announced Monday that he and Merritt had reached a plea agreement with the California Attorney General’s Office. According to the agreement, the two activists will make a “no contest” plea in which they will receive “no jail time, no fines,...

Prosecutors in California have reached a plea deal to end a nearly decade-long court fight with an anti-abortion activist and journalist who together exposed Planned Parenthood for allegedly trafficking fetal body parts. David Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Progress, and journalist Sandra Merritt, said Monday the criminal cases against them have ended, with the California Attorney General’s office agreeing to a plea deal that includes no prison time or fines, Live Action reported Monday.

Citing a “financial shortfall,” Planned Parenthood of Illinois announced yesterday — on the 52nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade — that it will be closing four clinics across the state, including one on Chicago’s South Side. The health center shutdowns come as Illinois is already grappling with a surge in patients traveling here from other states for abortion care after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark decision Roe v. Wade in June 2022, ending federal abortion rights. The number of abortion seekers coming to Illinois — long known as...

Citing a “financial shortfall,” Planned Parenthood of Illinois announced Wednesday – on the 52nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade – that it will be closing four clinics across the state, including one on Chicago’s South Side. The health center shutdowns come as Illinois is already grappling with a surge in patients traveling here from other states for abortion care after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark decision Roe v. Wade in June 2022, ending federal abortion rights. The number of abortion seekers coming to Illinois – long known as...