Both the pro-life and pro-abortion movements are abuzz over the surprise ouster of Planned Parenthood chief Leana Wen on Tuesday afternoon.

While Wen's initial statement said that the board booted her in a secret meeting over "philosophical differences," it appears that those differences go farther than the politics-versus-health care disagreement that was initially reported; according to a report at BuzzFeed News, the differences also had to do with whether or not men can get pregnant.

The report cites two sources who say that Wen refused to use “trans-inclusive” language when talking about abortion and other services, like saying "people" rather than "women." She also reportedly told people at the organization that she worried that pushing transgenderism on top of the organization's message would "isolate people in the midwest."

Wen also had a habit of holding secret meetings and keeping her public messaging strategy from longtime Planned Parenthood employees, which is why so many left when she came aboard, the story adds. “Oftentimes we wouldn’t know that, say an op-ed she wrote was posting or what she was going to say in a speech until she had already said it,” one of BuzzFeed's sources said.

As transgenderism has risen in the national dialogue, so has the discussion about whether or "men" can get pregnant, given the repeated stories of biological women who have gone through pregnancy after identifying as male.

And other abortion proponents have been quicker to get on board with the idea that "men" can get pregnant. Back in May, for example, Planned Parenthood of New York City president Laura McQuade called pro-life laws “not just an attack on women," but "an attack on anyone who can or might get pregnant, including transgender men and gender non-conforming people."

At a recent 2020 Democratic debate, candidate Julian Castro took flak after saying he "absolutely would cover" abortions for transgender females, who are biological males and can't get pregnant. His campaign later explained that he was talking about biological females identifying as men.

In a memo to her former colleagues upon her departure, Wen said, “The new Board leadership has determined that the priority of Planned Parenthood moving forward is to double down on abortion rights advocacy. With the landscape changing dramatically in the last several months and the right to safe, legal abortion care under attack like never before, I understand the shift in the Board’s prioritization.”

The move is evidence that “Planned Parenthood’s abortion empire is more threatened than ever before," according to a statement from LiveAction founder and president Lila Rose. "With unprecedented pro-life laws enacted across the nation and recent polling showing the large majority of Americans want abortion banned or substantially restricted, Planned Parenthood is doubling down on its aggressive pro-abortion political work. It is clear that Planned Parenthood intends to continue both its abortion business and its ruthless pro-abortion political advocacy for taxpayer funded abortion on babies through all nine months for any reason."

He's a former Trump administration official. He loves basketball, speaks fluent Spanish, and at 32 years old, Nick Bell is running a one-man campaign to replace one of one of the Virginia state legislature's key abortion proponents.

It's one of the hottest days of the sweltering, humid Northern Virginia summer as Bell sits down at a sandwich shop with me just a few minutes from his home in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Annandale. Over his roast beef and cheddar sandwich, Bell says that he's running a pro-life insurgency campaign for the Virginia House of Delegates to help make his home state into "something that people can be proud of" again after the commonwealth's infanticide fiasco earlier this year.

Bell isn't running against the lead sponsor of Virginia's now-infamous infanticide bill, Democratic lawmaker Kathy Tran; instead, his district (the 39th) is located right next to Tran's, where he's running against Tran's fellow abortion supporter Democratic delegate Vivian Watts.

"I always say Vivian Watts makes Kathy Tran look like an angel," Bell explains. "She has this long history of being very pro-abortion."

Watts supported Tran's infanticide bill in the subcommittee that voted to move forward on the bill. In the past, Bell says, Watts also opposed "many versions" of the state's 1997 partial birth abortion ban and and also voted against "every single version" of a 2003 Virginia abortion law that prohibits doctors from making an "outright act" to kill a child who survives an abortion, but doesn't prohibit them from letting them die.

That loophole, Bell explains, is what informed Virginia Governor Ralph Northam's January comments about keeping infants "comfortable" while deciding whether or not to let them die.

"So one of my positions is we need to put a bill forward like the [federal Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act] to say, 'Okay, we have to provide medical care to babies who survive a failed abortion,'" Bell explains.

Bell also realizes that because he's running in deep-blue Northern Virginia against a longtime state legislator, the odds are stacked heavily against him. However, he says that he's banking on hopes that the infanticide fiasco went too far, even for those who call themselves "pro-choice."

"I think people are horrified of what [pro-abortion Democrats] are doing," Bell says of the "extreme position" of the state's infanticide bill. "Obviously my district is majority pro-choice, but we're not talking about abortion in the first trimester; we're talking about killing babies who are born or are one, two, three days before birth."

Bell also says that he plans to get his message out to the people of his district with good old-fashioned door-knocking, reaching out to churches, and sending out mailers informing voters of his and his opponent's position on the life issue "because people actually don't know what's going on" or the extent of Virginia's current abortion laws, which allow for "abortion up until the moment of birth," or that "Democrats are trying to make it available for any reason whatsoever."

"Face-to-face contact is so big," Bell adds while discussing door-knocking. "You can get a lot of mailers, but if you don't see the person face to face, that's extremely important."

That's also going to be quite a task, given that Bell says his campaign is currently a one-man show.

"Right now, it's only me, so I am just doing this all myself," Bell informs me. He adds with a smile, "How many nonprofits or campaigns can say 100 percent of their dollars go directly to the voter contact? I can say that."

Bell, a lifelong Virginian except for the three years he spent teaching English and moonlighting in semi-professional basketball in Spain, said that when he first heard about the abortion bill, he was "shocked, horrified."

"I couldn't believe that my state would allow that," he recalled. He also notes that, following the infanticide fiasco, "Virginia was called out as being an embarrassment to the whole nation," which he says was a "huge part" of motivating his campaign. "I want to change Virginia from being a point of embarrassment and shame into something that people can be proud of," Bell says. "And killing babies after they're born or right before they're born is not what I want Virginia to be known for."

Nick Bell is the son of former Republican Senate candidate and Reagan administration official Jeffrey Bell, one of the key proponents behind supply-side "Reaganomics." Nick himself has also worked in a Republican presidential administration, having previously served as a special assistant to the assistant secretary for policy at the Trump Labor Department.

But the young Republican also knows that he can't run a successful campaign on a single issue alone; another big area where he plans to focus his messaging, he says, is on Northern Virginia's tolls and traffic, especially for those who have to drive to Washington, D.C., or Maryland for work.

He says he wants to eliminate "all the toll lanes" on the area's highways and "convert them to regular lanes so everyone can use it." Now, he adds, people "can't get back to their family because they see these huge lanes with no one on them and they're stuck in this insane traffic."

When he's not trying to add a pro-life voice to the Old Dominion's legislature, Bell says that he likes to blow off steam by playing basketball."I love basketball," Bell explains. "I love to get out there and shoot around outside in my neighborhood." The multiple basketballs sitting in the back seat of his stick-shift four-door sedan out in the parking lot prove he isn't kidding around about that.

Overall, despite the hard few months ahead of him, Bell says that he feels "super optimistic and energized" about his campaign.

Bell continues to say that a big part of his optimism at this stage is his view that "the Democrats are so apart from the people," because he's "never thought of another issue where the voting populace is farther from a certain political party" than on the issue of late-term abortion and infanticide.

"I think if you went outside and asked 100 people, 'Do you support killing babies after they're born?'" Bell concludes, "it would be 99.9 to one, no way."

Earlier this week, a federal judge blocked Ohio's pro-life "heartbeat law" from taking effect as planned.

Ohio's law bans abortion at six weeks, the point where an unborn child's heartbeat can be detected. A federal judge appointed by George W. Bush ruled Wednesday that that restriction ran up against Supreme Court precedent set in case of Planned Parenthood vs. Casey, under which states cannot impose an "undue burden" on abortion access.

"This Court concludes that [the 'heartbeat law'] places an 'undue burden' on a woman’s right to choose a pre-viability abortion, and, under Casey, Plaintiffs are certain to succeed on the merits of their claim," Judge Michael R. Barrett ruled on Wednesday.

Barrett also wrote that the law "will have the effect of preventing nearly all abortions in Ohio" and therefore, "One could characterize the obstacle Ohio women will face as not merely 'substantial,' but, rather, 'insurmountable.'"

The American Civil Liberties Union, which joined with abortion provider Planned Parenthood's legal efforts on the case, celebrated Wednesday's court order.

"Abortion bans like this one have been blocked across the country by numerous courts,” Freda Levenson, legal director for the ACLU of Ohio, said in a statement. “Today the Court has upheld the clear law: women in Ohio (and across the nation) have the constitutional right to make this deeply personal decision about their own bodies without interference from the State."

“Today’s ruling keeps abortion legal for all Ohioans, but we know the fight does not stop there," added abortion clinic Preterm-Cleveland executive director Chrissy France. "We will continue to fight for all women and people who can become pregnant to have access to abortion care."

Barrett's ruling went on to say, however, that plaintiffs' arguments that Ohio “is making a deliberate effort to overturn Roe and established constitutional precedent”  would have to "be made to a higher court."

And that's just the kind of fight that the state's Republican Governor Mike DeWine was expecting.

“Governor DeWine has long believed that this issue would be decided by the United States Supreme Court,” spokesman Dan Tierney told Reuters in an email after Wednesday’s court order.

After similar bills faced two vetoes from former Ohio Governor John Kasich, DeWine signed the heartbeat bill into law in April. Ohio is one of several states that have passed sweeping pro-life laws this year — much to the chagrin and dismay of abortion proponents nationwide.

Almost 130 members of both chambers of Congress say that the so-called "Affordable Care Act" has a loophole that allows Obamacare providers to hide surcharges for elective abortions covered by government health care plans. A group of lawmakers want the Department of Health and Human Services to finalize a regulation to close that loophole.

A letter to HHS Secretary Alex Azar signed by 25 senators and 103 House members focuses on a proposed change to the implementation of section 1303 of Obamacare, which deals with the separation of abortion funds, among other "special rules."

Basically, the law as written requires that federally subsidized health plans that covered elective abortions should charge a separated minimum $1 "abortion surcharge" every month and deposit it into a separate account for abortion procedures, the letter explains. The dual intent was to prevent taxpayer money from directly covering abortion procedures while creating transparency via the separate abortion charge.

"Unfortunately,  in an exercise of executive overreach, the Obama Administration undermined Section 1303 by interpreting 'separate' to mean 'together' in subsequent regulatory guidance," the lawmakers continue. "Blatantly disregarding congressional authority, the guidance stated that simply sending a single notice about the surcharge or itemizing the abortion surcharge on monthly bills would satisfy the requirement under Section 1303."

An October op-ed from Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser and Family Research Council Action President Tony Perkins explains that, as of 2018, "federally funded ObamaCare insurance plans in 24 states and the District of Columbia are permitted to cover elective abortion" with the added surcharge.

"By no means is this measure consistent with the principle of the long-standing Hyde Amendment," the letter adds, "however, it is important that the administration comply with these minimal requirements with transparency."

As a remedy, the lawmakers point to a regulation proposed by the Trump administration last year and call for its "swift implementation."

"The proposed rule is consistent with the clear meaning and congressional intent of Section 1303 and eliminates the hidden abortion surcharge in many ACA plans," Tuesday's letter explains. "While this requirement does not change the fact that the ACA violates the precedent of the long-standing Hyde Amendment through its involvement of tax dollars in subsidies to abortion-covering plans, it is an important step in providing transparency and awareness for enrollees."

“Taxpayer money should never be used to take innocent lives, and Obamacare passed with the promise that taxpayers would not have to subsidize another person’s abortion,” Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, said in an emailed statement about the letter. “Nevertheless, these hidden abortion surcharges were pushed upon Americans who would have objected had they known.”

Full text of the letter can be found here.

In a recent interview with HuffPost, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg revealed that she's looking to pump $1 million of her own money into the political arm of America's largest abortion provider.

“I think this is a very urgent moment where the rights and the choices and the basic health of the most vulnerable women — the women who have been marginalized, often women of color — are at stake,” she told told the left-leaning outlet in an interview about her donation to Planned Parenthood Action Fund (PPAF). “And so all of us have to do our part to fight these draconian laws.”

This isn't the first time the liberal billionaire Sandberg has opened up her personal checkbook for the abortion giant, having given another $1 million gift to the organization in the wake of President Trump's 2017 inauguration. Former Planned Parenthood chief Cecile Richards thanked her for her "her longstanding, and now increased, support" to the organization.

However, in contrast to her previous 2017 gift, this donation is about tipping the political scales and is going to Planned Parenthood's lobbying arm to help the organization campaign against pro-life politicians and policies from coast to coast.

“Planned Parenthood is going to fight back in the courts, in Congress, in the state houses, in the streets, for women’s health and rights,” Sandberg told Huffpost. “We all have to do everything we can to protect women.”

Following news of the gift, Planned Parenthood CEO and PPAF President Leana Wen thanked Sandberg "for her longstanding commitment to Planned Parenthood & her leadership as a role model for women & girls!"

“Now, more than ever, Sheryl’s generous support is necessary to help Planned Parenthood fight back against unprecedented attacks on people’s health and rights,” Wen said. “As anti-women’s health politicians try to pass extreme abortion bans across the country, our freedom and rights hang in the balance.”

The hefty donation is sure to bring more scrutiny to Facebook, which has been repeatedly accused of suppressing and censoring pro-life content.

Facebook removed a video ad from the pro-life Susan B. Anthony list back in November on the grounds that it contained "sensational or graphic content." Prior to that, a post at The Daily Wire notes multiple other instances where pro-life views were suppressed on the platform. Earlier this year, multiple pro-life voices claim to have had pro-life content removed.