Analysis

Does Planned Parenthood stand with women?

Planned Parenthood may have spent most of 2012 asking women to stand with them, but the relationship is one-sided because Planned Parenthood has repeatedly proven that the health and well-being of its patients is not its number-one priority. Planned Parenthood is an abortion business. Their claim that they’re all about women’s care would be laughable if it weren’t so heartbreaking.

Sexual Abuse

Live Action’s Mona Lisa Project went undercover into Planned Parenthood clinics throughout the nation. What the investigative team discovered was shocking. In eight Planned Parenthood clinics, including locations in Los Angeles; Bloomington, Indiana; and Tucson, Arizona, staffers violated state law by failing to report child sexual abuse. In Bloomington, Lila Rose, president of Live Action, posed as a 13-year-old who was pregnant by her 31-year-old boyfriend. Planned Parenthood admitted to Rose that they are legally required to report the abuse but said they wouldn’t, and they even advised her how to avoid parental notification laws to get an abortion.

Luckily, Rose was undercover. But that wasn’t the case for two teenagers in Ohio.

Planned Parenthood performed an abortion on a 14-year-old girl after her 22-year-old soccer coach, who impregnated her, brought her to the clinic. Not only did Planned Parenthood fail to report the abuse to authorities, but they broke parental notification laws as well.

Denise Fairbanks was 13 years old when her father began sexually abusing her. At the age of 16, after three years of abuse, she became pregnant. Her father took her to Planned Parenthood for an abortion. Fairbanks told the abortion clinic staff that her father was raping her, but Planned Parenthood did nothing to help her. They performed the abortion, collected the money, and sent Fairbanks and her abuser on their way. Fairbanks was raped by her father for another year and a half before her basketball coach filed a report and her father was arrested. Fairbanks went on to sue Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region for failing to report the abuse.

And the tragedies don’t stop in Ohio. There are the California cases of a 13-year-old girl impregnated by her 39-year-old stepfather, and an 11-year-old raped by a 17-year-old. There’s also the story of a 13-year-old girl impregnated by her 23-year-old foster brother. And there’s the case of a 14-year-old girl, abducted and raped in Connecticut. Her kidnapper/rapist brought her to Planned Parenthood for an abortion. Each of these victims was given an abortion and handed back to her rapist.

Sex-Trafficking

In 2011, seven Planned Parenthoods were caught on tape aiding undercover investigators posing as sex-traffickers. At a D.C. clinic, staffers counseled the sex-traffickers on how their underage slaves could get abortions and testing with no questions asked. At a Bronx, NY Planned Parenthood, a staffer told the “pimp” how he could get taxpayer-funded services for the underage sex workers, some as young as 14. Planned Parenthood assured him they would keep the information confidential.

Telemed Abortions

Telemed abortions are abortions that are done remotely. An abortion doctor, in a different location, presses a button that opens a drawer containing an abortion pill in the room in which a woman is waiting during a teleconference with the abortionist. As former Planned Parenthood staffer Sue Thayer wrote for The Washington Times:

Telemed abortion doesn’t only result in the death of an unborn child; it strips women of their dignity by denying them the courtesy of an in-person visit from a doctor concerned for their health and well-being. It risks their lives by sending them away with no support and a drug that has led to massive bleeding and hemorrhaging, infection and even death.

The upside for Planned Parenthood, supposed best friend of girls and women? It’s cheap.

Negligence

On July 20, 2012, Tonya Reaves went to a Planned Parenthood in Chicago for an abortion at 16 weeks’ gestation. The clinic’s website said that it does not perform surgical abortions; however, one was performed there on Reaves. Hours later, Reaves died. She had begun bleeding uncontrollably during the abortion, and the staff let her continue to hemorrhage for over five hours before calling for help. They did not call 911. The autopsy revealed that Reaves died as a result of the abortion and that the death was an “accident” which could include an avoidable death from negligence or malpractice.

This is not the first time Planned Parenthood has been aloof when it comes to the care of its patients. There have been at least 16 medical emergencies at Planned Parenthood locations throughout the U.S. since August of 2010. On top of that, when Live Action investigators called seven of those locations, including the one that killed Reaves, not even one of them admitted that a woman had ever been hurt from an abortion at their clinic. Rather than tell women that abortion can be dangerous, as with any surgery, Planned Parenthood lies to get the women in the door and get their money.

Mammogram Lies

It isn’t just the staffers who lie about Planned Parenthood. Even the CEO, Cecile Richards, and America’s own President Obama have been known to spread falsehoods regarding Planned Parenthood services. Richards went on “The Joy Behar Show” to state her case against the Pence Amendment to end Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer subsidies. She said, “If this bill ever becomes law, millions of women in this country are gonna lose their healthcare access – not to abortion services – to basic family planning…you know, mammograms.”

President Obama told Jay Leno that women “rely on [Planned Parenthood] for mammograms.”

The problem? Planned Parenthood doesn’t provide mammograms at all. In fact, according to the Food and Drug Administration, Planned Parenthood is not even licensed to do mammograms. Why lie? Planned Parenthood needs to maintain the image that the organization cares about women and are more about providing health services than peddling abortion.

Sex-Selective Abortions

It isn’t just the women coming into the clinic that Planned Parenthood doesn’t care about. It’s also the baby girls. Live Action went undercover and discovered that Planned Parenthoods throughout the country will gladly perform abortions on baby girls just because they are baby girls. These abortions are late-term, since most ultrasounds to determine the baby’s gender occur after 18 weeks’ gestation. Babies, just a few weeks from viability, are aborted at Planned Parenthood for the sole reason that they are female. It’s horrific discrimination.

Quotas to Fill

Providing abortion is the main priority of Planned Parenthood because it is their moneymaker. In fact, about half of their non-government health center annual income comes from abortion. In dollars, Planned Parenthood brings in over 150 million from abortions each year. Abby Johnson, former Planned Parenthood clinic director, has even said that Planned Parenthood has an abortion quota to fill. In a piece for The Daily Caller, Johnson writes, “At my clinic, we didn’t have cancer screening quotas to fill — we had abortion quotas to fill, because that’s what made us money.”

In addition, Johnson told WND:

Abortion is the most lucrative part of Planned Parenthood’s operations. Even though they’re two separate corporations, all of the money goes into one pot. With the family planning corporation really suffering, they depend on the abortion corporation to balance their budget, help get them out of the hole and help make income for the company. They really wanted to increase the number of abortions so that they could increase their income.

And she isn’t the only former staffer to divulge that information.

What each of these cases and all of these incidences add up to is simple. Planned Parenthood consistently puts money above the welfare of their patients. Victims are handed back to their rapists. Sex-trafficking of minors is ignored. Dangerous abortion pills are administered from an abortionist’s office miles away. Patients are left to die in order to attempt to cover up Planned Parenthood’s wrongdoings. And lies are told to Americans to make them believe that Planned Parenthood is all about women’s health in order to keep the $487 million they receive in taxpayer money. It’s time we stop paying Planned Parenthood to hurt and kill our girls and women. Sign the petition to defund Planned Parenthood.

Note: This is an updated version of a previous article on the same topic.

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  • http://twitter.com/marissagcope Marissa Cope

    Great article to share the big picture on PP. I think it’s tempting for people to write off the scandals as hyperbole or believe they are all “surely isolated incidents”, but the pattern is clear, and having it all here in one place is very helpful!

  • Sofia

    Hi, great article, but where can it be seen that planned parenthood receives almost half its income from abortions in the link you gave? Thanks.

    • LoveTheLeast8

      I know about this topic. Planned Parenthood gets about 1 billion a year in revenue. About 50% comes from the government. 20% from corporate and private contributions and 30% from their health centers. Overall abortions account for about $150,000,000 in revenue annual or about half (150 mil of 300 mil) of the non-government grant health center income.

      Planned Parenthood reported that they did just over 330,000 abortions in their last annual report which at $455 per abortion (this is an average based on abortion industry data as the cost varies some from clinic to clinic) comes to 150 million which is how that part is calculated.

  • http://www.facebook.com/john.doey.73700 John Doey

    You do realize that parental notification laws and being forced to report sexual abuse puts the victim in an even worse situation especially if the abuser is a family member which he/she is in the majority of cases. By pushing the issue that the girl has to report the abuse to law enforcement or get parental permssion for the abortion is wrong and only makes her situation more dangerous.

    • Sarah

      You do realize that parental notification does not = parental permission? You do realize that if it’s a parent that’s abusing the girl, they’ll usually be the ones getting the abortion for her to cover up their abuse? You do realize that it is better for law enforcement etc. to find out about the abuse then for her to return to the same abusive relationship?
      Also, since you don’t believe in God, where do you get this idea of “wrong” and “right”? Without belief in God, those words are meaningless.

      • http://www.facebook.com/john.doey.73700 John Doey

        Also, since you don’t believe in God, where do you get this idea of “wrong” and “right”? Without belief in God, those words are meaningless.

        Number one jackass, I never stated whether or not I believed in anything, and two I dont need the Church or God to tell me what is right and wrong. You really are an idiot and brain dead zealot. Seriously, right and wrong is meaningless without God? LOL! The edicts of the Church are political in nature and not moral and only idiot like you would confuse the two.

        Forcing a young girl in that situation to identify the abuser to law enforcement when in all likelihood she has been threatened with harm to herself and possibly other family members if she tells all but assures her silence and her then being saddled with a child that is the result of sexual abuse. If you had ever dealt with or known a young woman in a situation like that and/or read statistics you would know this but instead your’e a judgmental, moralizing, moron who sees the world only in black and white.

        • Julia

          No one’s talking about forcing the girl to indentify the abuser, just forcing PP to report sexual abuse like any other organization that deals with minors. Instead, Planned Parenthood would rather pocket the abortion money, and pocket some more abortion money when the girl comes back still being abused months later.

          ” I never stated whether or not I believed in anything” Actually you did. you said “pushing the issue that the girl has to report the abuse to law enforcement or get parental permssion for the abortion is WRONG”.

          Why do believe something like this, or murder, or rape, or lying, stealing, etc. are wrong? Where does this feeling inside of you that somethings are wrong even if you would like to do them come from? how did these feeling come to be inside you? they fight against many of your natural instincts. For instance, when a person is angry at someone they often feel like punching someone,etc., but something inside of them fights against this impulse, why? If you believe in God, it’s simple.

          I hope it is not to much to ask for courtesy if you reply.

    • LoveTheLeast8

      You think Planned Parenthood shouldn’t report child sexual abuse to law enforcement? Are you crazy? That is exactly what happened at Penn State. You think that was great?

      • http://www.facebook.com/john.doey.73700 John Doey

        Are you comparing that to what happened at Penn State? Context means nothing to you people. Penn State not reporting Sandusky was done to save Penn State. Planned Parenthood not being forced to report sexual abuse that results in a pregnancy can save the girl especially if the abuser is a family member. I had a close friend who was abused by her father when she was a child and at age 19 she was still afraid to tell her mother out of fear that she would destroy her family and how guilty she would feel about it afterward. To force that decision upon a girl of 13 and under is wrong and who is already in a living hell. You need to use your head and consider other factors before spouting off like an idiot. if you force the girl to press charges she will then choose to remain silent and pregnant as a result of incest or sexual abuse. Use your head.

        • LoveTheLeast8

          “you people”
          What, am I not an individual to you? Please address what I say and not what you THINK I am like.

          Explain how this is different than Penn State?

          Planned Parenthood has been presented with child sexual abuse cases which they are required by law to report and they did not do so.

          Do you support child sexual abuse reporting laws? Yes or no? Do you think Penn State should have been required to report?

          • http://www.facebook.com/john.doey.73700 John Doey

            Planned Parenthood didnt ask the girl to report the abuse in order to protect the child not themselves. What do they really have to lose by reporting it? Nothing. Penn State had the Penn State football team, their jobs, and tons of money to lose.

            You are talking about apples and oranges. There is no equivalency between grown men reporting Jerry Sandusky and forcing a young woman to report an abuser to law enforcement against her will in order to get an abortion if she doesnt want to. I dont know how else to explain this to you? You are obviously arent listening to what Im saying either in that making a young girl report something like that when she’s afraid to or it can put her in an even worse situation is wrong. The men at Penn State had nothing to fear from Sandusky, did they? No, they were afraid their jobs, power, and prestige would be lost. Planned Parenthood isnt not reporting to help themselves as they have nothing personally to lose but rather trying to protect the girl in trouble.

            I love the kind of moral absolutes “you people” present without any context. IE, “do you support child sexual abuse reporting laws”? Penn State and Planned Parenthood are not the same situation since Planned Parenthood not reporting isnt dont to protect themselves but rather the girl and Penn State didnt report to protect themselves. Of course you will reply once again with not listening to word I said and attempting to make the same equivalency in order to produce a “gotcha” moment.

          • LoveTheLeast8

            “Planned Parenthood didnt ask the girl to report the abuse”
            Planned Parenthood’s legal responsibility as a mandated child sexual abuse reporter is to report the abuse themselves. Never were we talking about getting the girl to report. Don’t change the topic.

            “forcing a young woman to report an abuser to law enforcement”
            Again you are showing no understanding of the law or the situation. Forcing the child to report is never part of the equation. You just made that up.

            So you think Planned Parenthood is in the right by violating the law? When Planned Parenthood was caught they said that they believe that they SHOULD have reported it and they say that they support child sexual abuse reporting law. You realize that Planned Parenthood doesn’t even take your position?

  • http://www.facebook.com/john.doey.73700 John Doey

    The pro-life movement and other social conservatives(those who oppose homosexuals)lost this election for the Republican party. I so very much wanted to vote against Obama who is not helping our economy but you made that impossible by supporting morons like Todd Akin and the Family Research Council who have an irrational hatred of homosexuals. Many people that voted for Obama did so because of their opposition toward these views including myself. Do the country a favor and stop lending support to political candidates for the good of the country and do your moralizing on your own time.

    • Julia

      There is a difference between hating someone and hating what they do. Most Christians don’t hate homosexuals. In fact, most believe that they have a duty to love all people and believe hating someone is wrong. However this does not mean that they condone what they do.

      Actually, I think it is more likely that Romney lost because he didn’t promote pro-lifeness enough to encourage many people who believe abortion is wrong to vote for him as opposed to Obama, and they instead didn’t bother voting or voted 3rd party.

      Though I oppose your views, I do respect the fact that you voted what you believe is justice and rights, over things like the economy.

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