SBA List Chief: Planned Parenthood Finally Being Held Accountable

Accountability and a "palpable sense of terror" are finally starting to catch up to Planned Parenthood after eight years of a pro-abortion president, Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser wrote in a column for The Daily Signal.

Dannenfelser cited two recent events that show the abortion provider's carte blanche model is coming to an abrupt end under President Donald Trump:

• The FBI's pursuit of Senate documents regarding Planned Parenthood's sale of fetal tissue and body parts.
• The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected to revisit its ruling that Arkansas could redirect Medicaid funding away from abortion providers.

"These two major breakthroughs would have been inconceivable under the Obama administration, which repeatedly abused federal power to prop up the abortion industry," Dannenfelser wrote in the Daily Signal.

"President Barack Obama's aggressively pro-abortion administration put the 'bully' in 'bully pulpit,'" Dannenfelser wrote. "Under Obama, the Justice Department became a tool to harass and intimidate pro-life advocates, labeling them domestic terrorists alongside groups like the Ku Klux Klan.

"But there's a new sheriff in Washington now, and a palpable sense of terror is gripping Planned Parenthood and its camp. Without their defender-in-chief or the courts to bail them out, they are finally being held accountable," Dannenfelser wrote.

"There are good reasons to hope that for America's abortion giant, justice is right around the corner," Dannenfelser wrote.

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