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NARAL Pro-Choice America
stated on September 28, 2016 an ad.:

"Toomey and Trump will ban abortion and punish women who have them."

False

By Anna Orso • October 6, 2016

Ken Paxton
stated on February 5, 2016 press release:

"Statistics show 2 to 3 Texas women per week have major complications and 10 women per week seek help at an ER after an abortion."

False

By Emma Hinchliffe • March 4, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on February 6, 2016 the GOP primary debate in New Hampshire:

Says Hillary Clinton "believes that all abortions should be legal, even on the due date of that unborn child."

False

By Linda Qiu • February 10, 2016

John O'Bannon
stated on February 1, 2016 a constituent survey:

Says "some Planned Parenthood chapters have been selling the body parts of aborted fetuses for profit."

False

By Warren Fiske • February 8, 2016

Sarah Palin
stated on February 1, 2016 an interview on CNN:

Says Donald Trump's conversion to pro-life beliefs are akin to Justin Bieber's, who said in the past that abortion "was no big deal to him."

False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 5, 2016

Carly Fiorina
stated on January 20, 2016 an Iowa Right to Life event in Des Moines:

The United States has a "record number of abortions year after year after year."

False

By Louis Jacobson • January 20, 2016

Tarina Keene
stated on January 13, 2016 a news conference:

More than 100,000 women in Texas "have attempted to self-induce abortion in the past year alone."

False

By Warren Fiske • January 19, 2016

John Stemberger
stated on September 22, 2015 a letter to Gov. Rick Scott:

Planned Parenthood has "now (been) found to also illegally sell baby parts."

False

By Joshua Gillin • October 7, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on September 30, 2015 a campaign stop in Exeter, N.H:

Birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger "believed that people like me should be eliminated."

False

By Clay Wirestone • October 5, 2015

Dana Loesch
stated on September 29, 2015 a tweet:

Says Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards was "forced to concede that 86 percent of Planned Parenthood’s revenue is from abortion."

False

By Katie Sanders • October 5, 2015

Sandra Smith
stated on July 28, 2015 an interview with Mike Huckabee:

"Almost 95 percent of all (Planned Parenthood) pregnancy services were abortions."

False

By Anna Bruzgulis • August 4, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on June 28, 2015 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

Public support for abortion "is actually going down a little bit," polls show.

False

By Lauren Carroll • June 28, 2015

William O'Brien
stated on February 8, 2015 a Facebook post:

Birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger was "an active participant in the Ku Klux Klan."

False

By Clay Wirestone • March 18, 2015

Bishop Thomas Tobin
stated on January 22, 2015 a newspaper column:

"Abortions account for 94 percent of the services provided for pregnant women by Planned Parenthood."

False

By Katie Mulvaney • March 2, 2015

Mark Warner
stated on July 26, 2014 a debate.:

Ed Gillespie "supports a personhood amendment."

False

By Sean Gorman • August 4, 2014

Newt Gingrich
stated on July 6, 2014 interview on ABC's "This Week":

Says Hillary Clinton's health care plan from the 1990s "had a broader provision in favor of corporate right to back out" of providing contraceptive coverage than the one created by the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision.

False

By Lauren Carroll • July 8, 2014

Justin Amash
stated on July 1, 2014 a campaign ad:

"Justin Amash is rated Michigan’s No. 1 conservative" by National Right to Life.

False

By Steve Contorno • July 7, 2014

Texas Right to Life
stated on March 21, 2014 an email blast:

"In 2005, Dan Branch tried to expand third-trimester abortions in Texas."

False

By Sue Owen • April 24, 2014

Ralph Reed
stated on March 9, 2014 a broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press":

Millennials are "more pro-life than baby boomers and older Americans."

False

By Jon Greenberg • March 11, 2014

American Life League
stated on February 4, 2014 an email blast:

Girl Scouts USA’s curriculum "promotes Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, Betty Friedan, founder of NARAL Prochoice, and other pro-abortion women as icons for our children to emulate."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • February 13, 2014

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