Planned Parenthood is an Abortion Business That Only Cares About Killing Babies For Profit
You’re Planned Parenthood, the premier purveyor of death, and you know many Red States are coming after your funding, not to mention Congress and the Trump administration which has already signaled your federal funding is on the chopping block. At moments like this, you expect the media heavyweights who have carried your water for 60 years to stand firm.
And then, on Saturday, The New York Times, among your staunchest allies, runs a long, long story written by Katie Benner under the petrifying headline, “Botched Care and Tired Staff: Planned Parenthood in Crisis”. (Interesting that Benner’s beat is described as “writing primarily about large institutions that shape American life.”)
This comes on the heels of Planned Parenthood wiping clean its Instagram account. What this all means is fascinating but as yet a mystery.
It’s important to know that in its latest report, PPFA performed 392,715 abortions in 2022, up from 374,155 in 2021.
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“Planned Parenthood abortions now average 1,076 every day, nearly 45 every hour, and one every 80 seconds,” according to Carole Novielli.
Dr. Randall K. O’Bannon is NRLC’s Director of Education & Research and an expert on Planned Parenthood. He is carefully studying Benner’s report and will provide an in-depth look on Tuesday. Today, I will hit some of the many, many lowlights.
#1. The Times evidently put a lot of time into this story. Question is, why now? Let’s put that aside for the moment. Benner writes
a New York Times review of clinic documents and legal filings, as well as interviews with more than 50 current and former Planned Parenthood executives, consultants and medical staff members, found that some clinics are so short of cash that care has suffered. Many operate with aging equipment and poorly trained staff, as turnover has increased because of rock-bottom salaries. Patient counts have shrunk from a high of five million and 900 clinics in the 1990s to 2.1 million patients and 600 clinics today.
#2. This is strange considering the boom in fundraising following the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe. Benner agrees.
The lack of resources is startling: Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Planned Parenthood has enjoyed a fund-raising boom, with $498 million in donations that year. But little of it goes to the state affiliates to provide health care at clinics.
So, where did/does the money go?
Instead, under the national bylaws, the majority of the money is spent on the legal and political fight to maintain abortion rights.
And when she says majority, Benner means a real majority. And, oh by the way, in 2020, Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, made $683,697, according to Live Action News.
#3. The story is filled with accounts of [largely former] employees who bitterly denounce the “non-profit” corporation.
But several former employees who have quit or were fired spoke openly about conditions in the clinics, and national leaders said that the organization is contending with tremendous challenges and still providing quality care in the vast majority of cases.
Note that all one of those “national leaders”—Johnson— would give The New York Times was a “statement.” Too scared to give an interview?
#4. The money squeeze and consolidation.
In 2019, New York City agreed to become part of a new entity called Planned Parenthood of Greater New York, which included affiliates in Nassau County, the mid-Hudson Valley, Southern Finger Lakes and Mohawk Hudson.
But some of the chief executives of the five affiliates, who made a combined $1.5 million a year before the merger, balked at taking pay cuts. Two of them left not long after the transaction closed in January 2020.
Later we learn
Last year, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York — one of the few places where abortion is still legal up to 24 weeks — said that a budget shortfall would force it to restrict later term abortion services, effectively implementing a 20-week abortion ban. It closed four clinics.
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England expects to run an $8 million deficit over the next three years.
Planned Parenthood of Northern California made a hard funding choice last March when it ended a prenatal care program that served 200 to 250 low-income women a month.
There are many reasons many Planned Parenthood affiliates are in big trouble, including
Over the last five years, the national office has distributed more than $899 million to affiliates to help them deliver care, but none of it went directly to medical services. By charter, the mission of Planned Parenthood Federation of America is to “provide leadership, advocacy and education in the field of reproductive health care.” [Emphasis added.]
#5. Finally
Employees said there has been constant pressure to more than double the number of patients seen from the present 2.1 million, to help bring in more revenues.
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York expects clinics to see more than four patients an hour, and for appointments to last about 10 minutes, according to an email sent by management to clinic staff obtained by The Times. The appointment times, set by Planned Parenthood Federation of America, are in line with a trend in health care, widely unpopular with both patients and doctors, to keep primary care visits to about 15 minutes.
Grace Larson, “a former Planned Parenthood nurse in Minnesota who was fired while trying to unionize the staff”
said that employees sometimes administered expired pain medication or the wrong medications as they scrambled to move people in and out. She said it was not uncommon for patients to be taken to the wrong room and prepped for the wrong procedure.
And that just begins to chronicle the horror stories in Benner’s devastating account. Dr. O’Bannon will pick up the narrative tomorrow.
LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. This post originally appeared in at National Right to Life News Today —- an online column on pro-life issues.
