By Will Hall, Message Executive Editor WASHINGTON – Planned Parenthood announced it would forego as much as $60 million by not participating in the Title X program, which provides funding for such things as cancer screenings, because of a Trump adminstration rule that the grants cannot be used by a clinic that offers abortions or makes referrals for abortions even if it provides other women’s health care services. In essence, Planned Parenthood had to choose between the $60 million in federal grants for women’s healthcare or the more lucrative abortion business it conducts. The Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parent hood’s research arm, reported that an abortion, whether surgical or chemical, cost about $500 last year in Planned Parenthood clinics across the United States. That means Planned Parenthood, which performed nearly 333,000 abortions last year, made in the neighborhood of $166 million from abortions, or $106 million more than it would receive this year in women’s healthcare funding under the federal government’s Title X program. Planned Parenthood also receives Medicaid funds, which last year totaled an estimated $500 million for the group. In total, the nation’s largest abortion provider had revenues from all … [Read more...]

By Will Hall, Message Executive Editor BATON ROUGE, La. (LBM) – Louisiana Right to Life has reported that a botched abortion by a Baton Rouge facility resulted in complications leading to an emergency hysterectomy for the woman. The baby did not survive. LRTL obtained the information about the incident at the Delta Clinic via a report from the Louisiana Department of Health in response to an Open Records Request. According to the report, the patient began bleeding profusely as a result of the abortion procedure and “the facility did not have adequate emergency supplies, such as IV fluid, on hand to stabilize her” despite a Louisiana law that requires outpatient abortion centers to maintain an inventory of basic medical materials to sustain patients until emergency medical services arrive. Because of the medical negligence during the abortion, a Baton Rouge hospital had to perform a total abdominal hysterectomy and a bilateral salpingectomy (the removal of both fallopian tubes). Although only recently reported, the tragic circumstances took place on March 15, just a month and a week after the U.S. Supreme Court stopped, at least temporarily, a 2014 Louisiana Law from going into effect that requires abortionists to … [Read more...]