On this episode of Plain Talk, state Senator Janne Myrdal (R-Edinburg) talks about the objections she and other lawmakers share over North Dakota State University partnering with Planned Parenthood. “I believe in academic freedom,” Myrdal told me. But she added that NDSU is “being used as a mouthpiece” by a group with a partisan political…
What if NDSU’s Partnership With Planned Parenthood Could Lead to Fewer Abortions?
I largely agree with the Fargo Forum’s editorial today, chastising some 89 state lawmakers for urging North Dakota State University to end a research partnership with Planned Parenthood. “If we attempted to control research, particularly in response to political pressure, then NDSU could be violating accreditation standards, which require academic freedom and political autonomy,” NDSU…
Linda Thorson: NDSU and Planned Parenthood Teaming up to Offer Classes to Students
This guest post was submitted by Linda Thorson, the North Dakota state director for Concerned Women for America. Have you heard Planned Parenthood is offering classes for any teacher with students Kindergarten through 12th grade and that the workshop is offered for credit by North Dakota State University (NDSU)? The teacher for the course is…
Planned Parenthood Won’t Be Seen Supporting Their Friend Heidi Heitkamp in 2018
It’s not that Senator Heidi Heitkamp has done anything to upset the folks at Planned Parenthood. After all, the Senator could be seen high-fiving Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on the Senate floor (yes, it was a high-five) after helping to vote down an abortion limitation that’s the law in all but six countries around the world.…
Audio: Congressman Cramer Says Planned Parenthood Video Showing Protesters Turned Back by Cops Was a “Stunt”
“I’m happy to listen to them…but at least be truthful about it.” That’s what Congressman Kevin Cramer told me today on my radio show of a Planned Parenthood protest outside his office in Fargo on Friday. The protesters are now alleging that they were blocked from delivering a petition to Cramer’s staff by law enforcement,…
John Trandem: Heidi Heitkamp Prioritizes Planned Parenthood Over Access To Health Care For Women
Throughout Senator Heidi Heitkamp’s time in public life, she has consistently taken the lead on issues important to women. That is why I am so confused about her recent votes against expanding women’s healthcare coverage throughout the state. With the recent controversy over Planned Parenthood, bills have been introduced in Congress that would ensure, despite…
In North Dakota Planned Parenthood Waves The Bloody Shirt
The degree to which Planned Parenthood is using the shooting at one of their clinics in Colorado to try and silence their opposition, and distract from that nasty scandal over the apparent marketing of dead baby parts, is downright ghoulish. With the president of the abortion industry giant set to speak at a fundraiser in…
Margaret Morley: Well Done, Planned Parenthood
On Black Friday, while out in Bismarck with my family, I saw a news alert come across my phone saying that there was an active shooter at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado. I clicked on the link to read the accompanying news report, and after that, I checked Facebook to see if there were any…
James Kerian: Is There Anything Planned Parenthood Could Do To Outrage The Left?
Last Friday Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joanne O’Donnell ruled that the Center for Medical Progress has First Amendment rights to release videos it covertly took of StemExpress executives talking about buying aborted baby tissue from Planned Parenthood. The newly released videos, as promised, bring forth even more horrid revelations of activity that is both inhumane and…
Video: President Barack Obama Says Harvesting Organs From Living Human Beings Is "Cruel"
Only, President Obama isn’t talking about the organ harvesting you’re thinking of: President Barack Obama told a group of young African leaders on Monday that harvesting organs from humans that are killed as part of an African ritual was “craziness” and a “cruel” tradition that needed to stop. He warned of dehumanizing marginal groups of…