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The Planned Parenthood of Illinois, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation are paying out almost $2 million in a wrongful death lawsuit. That’s right, the pro-abortion organization constantly heralded by pro-choice politicians, liberal feminists and even our president, is responsible for a patient’s death. The details are disturbing: On July 20, 2012, 24-year-old Tonya Reaves, pictured right, died after a late-term abortion at Planned Parenthood’s Loop Health Center from uncontrolled bleeding, according to court documents. Other reports have implicated a 5-plus hour delay by the Michigan Avenue PP in getting Reaves to Northwestern and more delays in getting...

Scholars at the conservative Heritage Foundation are disputing the conclusions of a study newly released by the New York Times that claims parental notification laws have little impact on state abortion rates. The Times analysis involved six states that introduced parental-notification laws in the last decade. It found divergent trends. In Tennessee, the abortion rate dropped after a federal court suspended a parental-notification requirement, but rose again after the law went back into effect. In Texas, the abortion rate declined after the parental-notification law went into effect, but not as fast as it did in the years before the law...