WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans can move forward with plans to effectively defund Planned Parenthood after a crucial ruling from the parliamentarian allowed the provision to be tucked into President ...

A Republican campaign strategy emerges from the budget showdown last week in which President Obama refused to back down on his opposition to cutting Title X funding to Planned Parenthood. Speaker ...

Republican Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) on Monday sided with Democrats who were trying to strike a provision from the GOP’s megabill that would bar Planned Parenthood health ...

The longer the state plaintiffs can keep funding for Planned Parenthood alive, and make sure the issue remains in the public eye, the more likely it becomes that Republicans will use the abortion ...

A little more than a month after Senate Republicans tried (and failed) to defund Planned Parenthood, their colleagues in the House have taken up the issue. Tennessee Rep. Diane Black announced Friday ...

In what’s quickly becoming a depressing pattern, the Ohio Senate has voted 23-10 to pass Senate Bill 214, which will divert all of Planned Parenthood’s funding to other organizations. The bill went to ...

But on Thursday, after a narrow vote in the U.S. Senate defeated Democratic attempts to extend subsidies for the Affordable ...

It was big week on the abortion-rights front as Cecile Richards testified in front of the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday, Sept. 29, as Republican lawmakers continued an investigation into ...

With its vote to defund Planned Parenthood, the U.S. House of Representatives violated the U.S. Constitution, Professor David S. Cohen wrote in an op-ed published in The Philadelphia Inquirer on Sept.