After the recent spate of hoax videos with bizarrely manufactured claims about "selling fetal body parts," five states used taxpayer money to investigate Planned Parenthood - and all five found no evidence of any wrongdoing.
But the attacks continue, and in Florida Planned Parenthood had to ask for an emergency injunction to keep local regulators from interfering with their services. Florida officials are accusing the clinics of improperly performing second trimester abortions - but they're defining "second trimester" by counting from two weeks before conception.
Many thanks to all the people who sent links and suggestions for this weeks diary: ramara, mettle fatigue, officebss, and elenacarlena. For anyone who wants to try doing one of these weekly diaries, there's lots of people willing to help out, especially for first-timers! (And yes, this is leading up to me pointing out that we need a volunteer for next week.)
The good, the bad and the ugly below the orange dateline.