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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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