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128 Republicans Want Investigation of Planned Parenthood Fraud
LifeNews.com | Steven Ertelt | Oct 2, 2026
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A coalition of 128 Republican lawmakers is pressing the federal government to scrutinize Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding and determine whether the nation’s largest abortion business and its affiliates have misused federal dollars.
The request comes after Planned Parenthood has been found to engage in fraud in other instances.
Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., and Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., led the bicameral letter to Health and Human Services Inspector General T. March Bell. They asked his office to review Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates and, if appropriate, open a formal investigation.
They want the inspector general to examine funding that flows through HHS programs, grants, contracts and sub-awards, and to determine whether there is evidence of fraud, waste, abuse, misrepresentation or other violations of federal health programs. If misconduct is found, they asked the watchdog to consider administrative remedies, suspension, exclusion from federal health care programs, or referrals to other authorities.
They also asked the office to coordinate with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of Management and Budget on a “comprehensive review.” CLICK HERE for access to the full article.
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Company Sold Body Parts From Aborted Babies for $765 Each
LifeNews.com | Steven Ertelt
10-1-26 | Washington, DC
A company that harvests organs from aborted babies sold fetal livers and thymus glands to taxpayer-funded University of California laboratories for $765 apiece.
According to newly-obtained purchase orders obtained by the Center for Medical Progress through a California Public Records Act request, the August and September 2023 orders from a UCLA lab to Cercle Allocation Services totaled $16,065 for 21 body parts — 14 livers and seven thymus glands — each billed separately at $765.
UCLA revised the orders several times at Cercle’s insistence to strip out sales-tax language so the transactions would appear to cover services rather than the actual aborted baby parts.
A Cercle account manager wrote in a September 2023 email: “The overriding issue is the use of terminology that we must not use due to their improper implication that we are selling taxable items,” and “Due to the nature of our business we must be very careful and clear that we invoice fees for our procurement services (untaxable).”
The manager warned that references to “Total Tax” and “Total Price Includes Sales Tax” “would imply that we are selling the items received (which are illegal to sell).” Federal law, 42 U.S. Code 289g-2, makes it a felony to transfer any human fetal tissue for valuable consideration.
Cercle previously operated as Advanced Bioscience Resources, which held government contracts and, with Planned Parenthood, drew congressional criminal referrals in 2016 after undercover reporting.
Planned Parenthood has supplied the company with aborted baby parts since the 1990s. Perrin Larton, then an Advanced Bioscience Resources procurement manager and now with Cercle, testified under oath in 2019 that intact aborted babies were harvested “every couple months” and that she sometimes saw fetal hearts still beating after they were cut out.
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26% of Obamacare Plans Are Illegally Funding Abortions
LifeNews.com | Jerry Cox
Sept. 21, 2026 | Washington, DC
Last week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report showing insurance companies pay for abortions in a number of states under Obamacare.
The report underscores the importance of a good, pro-life law that Arkansas passed in 2013.
The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Act — commonly known as “Obamacare” — created a system of state and federal health insurance exchanges. Insurance plans under Obamacare are not supposed to pay for abortion except in cases of rape or incest or to save the life of the mother. But the data from the GAO shows that millions of Americans have abortion coverage through Obamacare.
The GAO found more than one out of every four (26%) Obamacare plans available nationwide paid for “non-excepted” abortions — that is, abortions that were not performed due to rape or incest or to save the life of the mother. The GAO said those Obamacare plans covered an estimated 4.4 million people.
The GAO data indicates most of the Obamacare plans covering abortion were in California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Minnesota.
None of the Obamacare plans offered in Arkansas covered elective abortions, thanks to a good law the state legislature passed in 2013. CLICK HERE to read the full article and view a map showing the insurance status of the various states.
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EPA TO SCREEN AMERICA'S DRINKING WATER
FOR ABORTION DRUGS,
OTHER POTENTIAL POLUTANTS
Zeale.co | Elise Winland | Sept. 17, 2026
The agency will screen for more than 1,400 emerging contaminants as attention grows around a recent preprint reporting anti-progesterone activity in drinking water samples from three U.S. cities. Students for Life of America welcomed the study, declaring it a “victory for common sense.”
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Sept. 9 that it will screen drinking water samples for more than 1,400 potential contaminants, including the two drugs commonly used in a chemical abortion. The announcement came less than two months after a preprint study reported anti-progesterone activity in water samples from three U.S. cities.
“We have heard loud and clear that Americans are concerned about potential unknown pollutants lurking in their drinking water. The Trump EPA is committed to getting to the bottom of this, so that Americans can feel confident about the safety of their drinking water,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in a press release. “EPA’s state-of-the-art study will shed light on this issue and complement the actions we are already taking under the Safe Drinking Water Act.”
EPA scientists will use non-targeted analysis, a method that allows researchers to screen water samples for thousands of potential pollutants rather than testing for only a small group of predetermined chemicals, the agency said in the release. The study will collect samples from several locations in different metropolitan areas.
The EPA’s screening library contains mifepristone and misoprostol — the drugs commonly used together in a chemical abortion — among more than 1,400 chemicals, including certain contraceptives and hormones that can also be used in gender “transition” treatments, according to a chemical list released by the agency.
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