planned parenthood
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The WNBA’s Seattle Storm Publicly Partners With Planned Parenthood
Given that the team is owned by three women, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that the WNBA’s Seattle Storm has partnered with Planned Parenthood, the first such partnership between the embattled reproductive health care organization and a professional sports team. “I personally got my first birth control with Planned Parenthood,” said Storm…
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Young Thug to Donate Proceeds From NYC Show to Planned Parenthood
On Thursday, rapper Young Thug announced that he would be donating all the proceeds from his concert at Terminal 5 in New York City to Planned Parenthood. The rapper also brought on a few surprise guests, including Ugly God and labelmates Lil Yachty and Dae Dae, W Magazine reports. After the show, he posted on…
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NY Attorney General Blasts Trump’s Signing of Legislation to Defund Planned Parenthood
Just a week after leading a coalition of 16 attorneys general from across the country in opposing an Ohio state law that would defund Planned Parenthood and other health-service providers, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman had strong words Thursday for Donald Trump, who signed legislation that would allow states to withhold federal funding…
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Stay Woke: While the US Was Bombing Afghanistan, Trump Was Secretly Signing Bill to Block Planned Parenthood Money
President Vladimir TrumPutin is a lot of things, but camera shy isn’t one of them. Since taking office, he’s had the news crews around him every time he’s signed one of his 1,000 executive orders. Yet, on Thursday, as news broke that the U.S. had just dropped the “Mother of All Bombs” on an Afghanistan…
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Md. Becomes 1st State to Fund Planned Parenthood if Feds Cut Funding
Without the support of its governor, Maryland has become the first state to decide to make up the funds should there be any federal cuts to Planned Parenthood. Republican Gov. Larry Hogan did not sign the bill, but nor did he veto it, and so the bill, which would allow women to have comprehensive health…
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Shonda Rhimes Joins National Board of Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Black superwoman, television dynamo and queen of Thursday nights on ABC Shonda Rhimes will add another title to her résumé as she joins the national board of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Rhimes has never shied away from broaching difficult topics on her shows, including those involving women’s reproductive rights, and the topic of abortion…
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Judge Temporarily Blocks Texas From Removing Medicaid Funds From Planned Parenthood
A federal judge in Texas ruled Tuesday that state health officials cannot remove Planned Parenthood from Medicaid, ensuring that the women’s health provider will remain in the federal program at least until a federal lawsuit is settled. U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks issued the preliminary injunction that temporarily blocked the move and said the state…
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Everything Makes Sense If You Accept That White People Just Want Everyone And Everything Dead
Although the best and most memorable part of The Usual Suspects occurs in the last five minutes, when Agent Kujan puts the pieces on the bulletin board together and slowly realizes that Verbal Kint is in fact Keyser Soze, my favorite part comes a half hour or so before that scene. Dean Keaton and the…