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Planned Parenthood Protest Draws Heated Debate
CHICAGO (WBBM) – Planned Parenthood held a midday rally in the Loop to protest the recent vote in the House of Representatives that would bar all federal funding for the organization, which provides...
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Planned Parenthood Loses Funding, Court Challenge In Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS (CBS) – Planned Parenthood now says it will have to turn away 9,300 Medicaid patients at its clinics in Indiana, since state lawmakers have voted to eliminate all of the group’s public...
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Feds Reviewing Indiana Law Restricting Public Funds For Planned Parenthood
CHICAGO (CBS) — Federal officials are reviewing a new Indiana law that restricts public funding for Planned Parenthood. It’s a development that could cost the state some of its Medicaid funding,...
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Planned Parenthood Begins Offering Vasectomies
CHICAGO (CBS) — A Planned Parenthood clinic on the city’s Near North Side is now offering vasectomies for men who do not want children or who feel their families are complete. The Near North Health...
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Report: Steep Drop In Abortions In Illinois
CHICAGO (CBS) — The number of abortions performed in Illinois fell to a 37-year low in 2010. As WBBM Newsradio’s Regine Schlesinger reports, fewer than 42,000 abortions were performed in Illinois in...
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Schakowsky: Backlash Forced Komen To Restore Planned Parenthood Funds
CHICAGO (CBS) — Following a stinging backlash, The Susan G. Komen Cancer Foundation will resume funding for cancer screenings through Planned Parenthood. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) says...
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Romney In Rosemont: ‘I’m An Economic Heavyweight’
UPDATED 03/16/12 12:56 p.m. ROSEMONT, Ill. (CBS) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made a crack about the purported Chicago tradition of voting early and often Friday, as he campaigned at...
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Opinion: GOP Shows True Priorities With War On Women
In a stunning turn of events last week a Michigan legislator was punished for saying the word vagina on the house floor. For using a medically accurate term while speaking on the subject of health...
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Family Seeks Answers After Woman’s Death Following Abortion
Updated 07/22/12 – 4:34 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – The family of a Chicago woman who died after an abortion at Planned Parenthood says it wants answers about her death. Tonya Reaves, 24, died late Friday...
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Documents Shed Light On Woman’s Death After Abortion
CHICAGO (CBS) — Documents about the abortion performed for a West Side woman – and her subsequent death – reveal some new details about her final hours last Friday. As WBBM Newsradio’s Steve Miller...
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Opinion: Paul Ryan And The War on Women
If you like the GOP war on women, you are going to love Paul Ryan. After all, Ryan’s record on women’s health could easily be mistaken for one of W. Mitt Romney’s primary opponents, Rick Santorum....
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Mother Of Woman Who Died After Abortion Sues Planned Parenthood, Hospital
CHICAGO (STMW) — The mother of a 24-year-old woman who died after an abortion in July filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday against Planned Parenthood of Illinois and Northwestern Memorial Hospital....
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Indiana Barred From Cutting Off Planned Parenthood Medicaid Funds
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Indiana can’t cut off funding for Planned Parenthood just because the organization provides abortions, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
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Opinion: Brain Dead Politics In Virginia
Yesterday, I wrote about the brain dead approach of the current Republican Party: sign a bunch of out-of-the-mainstream pledges on taxes, women’s health care and all sorts of other policies; run to...
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Abortion Rights Supporters, Opponents Mark 40th Anniversary Of Roe V. Wade
CHICAGO (CBS) – Nearly 1,000 people attended a Planned Parenthood fundraiser Wednesday marking the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. Protesters hoisting...
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Abortion Protest Staged Outside Planned Parenthood Fundraiser
play pause Planned Parenthood Event Draws Protest WBBM Newsradio's Bob Roberts (CBS) — Planned Parenthood of Illinois hosted a major fundraiser at Navy Pier as opponents of abortion rights stood...
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Cop Shoots Trucker In Parking Lot Of Merrillville, Ind. Planned Parenthood
MERRILLVILLE, Ind. (CBS) — A police-involved shooting occurred in the parking lot of a Planned Parenthood office in Merrillville, Ind. Monday afternoon, apparently over a parking citation. One man...
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Charges Likely Wednesday Against Man Who Attacked Merrillville Cop
MERRILLVILLE, Ind. (STMW) – Police are trying to nail down details about a man who was shot by an off-duty Merrillville police officer after the two engaged in a physical altercation outside of the...
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Lawmakers Approve Required Birth Control Lessons In Sex Ed Classes
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CBS) – State lawmakers have passed legislation that would mandate schools that teach sex education in Illinois also would have to give students information about birth control. WBBM...
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Birth Control Referendum On Illinois Ballot Stirs Controversy
CHICAGO (CBS) – When you go to the polls between now and Tuesday, you’ll see on the ballot a question asking if any insurance plan that has prescription drug coverage should be required to cover...
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Anti-Abortion Demonstrators Rally Outside Downtown Planned Parenthood Offices
(CBS) — About 125 anti-abortion demonstrators rallied on Michigan Avenue at noon in front of the offices of Planned Parenthood. One of the leaders of the group was Jeremiah Rauwolf. “We are asking for...
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Hundreds Protest Planned Parenthood Outside Aurora Clinic
(CBS) — The controversy over videos purporting to show Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of body parts from aborted fetuses drew hundreds of people to a protest outside of the group’s...
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Federal Judge Blocks Indiana Abortion Law
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge blocked an Indiana law Thursday that would have banned abortions sought because of a fetus’ genetic abnormalities, saying that the state does not have the authority...
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Planned Parenthood Sees Surge In Visits Following Trump’s Election
(CBS) – Planned Parenthood says there has been a surge in the number of women making appointments to acquire birth control. The trend appears to be a response to concerns about President-elect Donald...
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Anti-Abortion Activists Pray Outside Chicago Planned Parenthood
CHICAGO (CBS) — Anti-abortion activists in Chicago, the suburbs and across the country have been staging rallies and prayer vigils today to push for an end to funding for Planned Parenthood. WBBM’s...
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Trump Healthcare Measure Would Harm Women, Planned Parenthood Advocates Say
(CBS) – The latest version of the White House-backed national health plan would hurt thousands of Illinois women, according to Planned Parenthood advocates. One of the components would have drastically...
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Liberals Ready To Fire Back At Trump’s Supreme Court Pick
CHICAGO (CBS)–Liberal groups are already gearing up to oppose Trump’s Supreme Court choice–even before the name has been announced. Trump will announce his nomination to replace retiring Justice...
View ArticleChicago Joins Objection To Federal Family Planning Changes
CHICAGO (AP) — The city of Chicago has joined 19 other local governments in a legal brief supporting Planned Parenthood’s challenge of federal changes to funding requirements. Mayor Rahm Emanuel...
View ArticleIllinois, 20 Other States To Sue Over Trump’s New Restrictions On Family...
CHICAGO (CBS/AP) — Illinois and 20 other states are filing lawsuits seeking to block the Trump administration’s new rule to make it more difficult for women to get abortions. Changes to the Title X...
View ArticleUS Judge Blocks Indiana 2nd Trimester Abortion Procedure Ban
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge blocked an Indiana law that would ban a second-trimester abortion procedure on Friday, just days before the law was set to come into force. The order putting the...
View ArticleSchakowsky: Komen Bowed To Political Pressure In Cut To Planned Parenthood
UPDATED 02/03/12 12:05 p.m. WASHINGTON (CBS) — U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) is expressing extreme disappointment with the decision by the Susan G. Komen Foundation to stop funding cancer screening...
View ArticlePritzker Nixes Family Planning Money After Trump ‘Gag Rule’
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker says Illinois will not use federal family planning funds as long as Republican President Donald Trump’s administration prohibits women’s health clinics from...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood Asks Judge To Pause Missouri Abortion Law
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Critics of a new Missouri ban on abortions at or after eight weeks of pregnancy are asking a judge to block the law from taking effect this week. Attorneys for Planned...
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Judge Blocks Missouri 8-Week Abortion Ban
(CNN) — A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a Missouri ban on abortions after eight weeks from going into effect. “The various sections specifying prohibitions on abortions at various weeks prior to...
View ArticleNew Abortion Clinic Going Up In Illinois, Near St. Louis
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — Planned Parenthood has quietly been building a new abortion clinic in Illinois, just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, as Missouri women concerned about the...
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Planned Parenthood Opens Massive Illinois Clinic Near Missouri, Which Passed...
(CNN) — As Missouri teeters on the brink of becoming the first state with no abortion clinics, a new Planned Parenthood center just across the Illinois border could help take patients who can’t get...
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Former Planned Parenthood Executive Andrea Peoples Accused Of Embezzlement
CHICAGO (CBS) — A former Planned Parenthood executive stood facing theft charges Wednesday. Andrea Peoples, 41, was arrested at her Burr Ridge home a few weeks ago. Andrea Peoples is accused of...
View ArticleJudge Strikes Down Indiana Abortion Complications Report Law
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has struck down an Indiana law that aimed to require reports from medical providers to the state if they treat women for complications arising from abortions. U.S....
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