Fact-Checker Denies That Planned Parenthood Is an Abortion Business

Thanks to the Media Research Center, which has highlighted a recent fact-check from USA Today and the Green Bay Press-Gazette. In the article, local reporter Haley BeMiller considers the claim — made in a 2019 LifeNews.com article — that Wisconsin’s Democratic governor Tony Evers “wants to force residents to fund Planned Parenthood abortion business” and rates it “partly false.”

Her work deserves some fact-checking of its own.

In her effort to debunk LifeNews, she offers two falsehoods. First, she attests that taxpayer money wouldn’t fund abortion because Wisconsin has its...