Sentences with phrase «deceptively edited videos»

Since the release of a series of deceptively edited videos in 2015 seeking to discredit Planned Parenthood, abortion opponents have mounted a sustained campaign to deny public family planning funding to providers who also offer abortion services (Recent Funding Restrictions on the U.S. Family Planning Safety Net May Foreshadow What Is to Come).

Although the U.S. publicly funded family planning effort now hangs precariously in the balance, in many respects, this current threat started in the summer of 2015 with the public release of a series of deceptively edited videos seeking to discredit Planned Parenthood.

In response to the release of a series of deceptively edited videos created by anti-abortion activists, a group of Republican lawmakers are trying to push through a bill to defund Planned Parenthood and cut off millions of women, men, and young people from access to care.

Since the release of the deceptively edited videos last July, Planned Parenthood has seen a nine-fold increase in threats and criminal activities against their health centers.

Social conservatives have long sought to exclude Planned Parenthood from public programs and funding streams on ideological grounds, a campaign that kicked into overdrive both in the states and in Congress with the 2015 release of deceptively edited videos attacking the organization.15, 16 At the congressional level, attempts to exclude Planned Parenthood health centers from receiving Medicaid reimbursement came close to succeeding last summer as part of broader efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

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In the past few months, following the release of ten deceptively edited anti-Planned Parenthood «sting» videos by an anti-abortion group called the Center for Medical Progress, GOP politicians have focused intently on defunding the reproductive health organization on both state and federal levels.

Particularly cynical and ugly questions about whether tissue from African - American patients could be isolated to use for research to find a cure for sickle - cell anemia, presumably to edit deceptively and manufacture false and inflammatory video involving race.