Recently, Porter spoke with Rewire about the inaccurate framing of abortion as a “moral” issue and the conditions that have created the current crisis facing providers and patients alike. Her film will air nationally on PBS’ Independent Lens Monday.
A series of legal briefs filed with a federal appeals court argue that David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress engaged in fraud that puts providers' and patients' lives at risk.
The ruling leaves in place the felony indictment against David Daleiden and his colleague, Sandra Merritt, for using fake identification to gain access to Planned Parenthood clinics.
The Center for Health and Gender Equity, Amnesty International USA, Reproaction, and Catholics for Choice organized what they described as a “call to action” rather than a protest of the summit.
"This is a silly requirement enacted to solve a non-existent problem," Jodi Liggett, vice president of public affairs with Planned Parenthood Arizona, said in an email on Monday to Rewire.
Arsonists have attacked five Planned Parenthood clinics around the country since last July, wreaking hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage, closing down the facilities, and sowing fear among staff and providers.
Just after the former secretary of state ended her speech, the presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump took the stage at another event and struck a different tone.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) remarks at Friday’s faith-based Road to Majority conference garnered the loudest rounds of applause when she pointed to her “strong, pro-life" team of Republican colleagues on her Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives and touted the constitutional rights of “unborn children” in the country.
HB 2797 directs the Oklahoma State Department of Health to develop materials that “provide public information through public service announcements, media and otherwise for the purpose of achieving an abortion-free society.”
