An undercover
video was released Tuesday of a top
official at Planned Parenthood discussing the sale of organs harvested from aborted
babies.
But it is not the first time a
scandal has surrounded the organization.
In its 2013-14
annual report, Planned Parenthood claimed it
has “come a long way” as “our movement has come so far in nearly one
hundred years—and we are building momentum.”
This momentum Planned Parenthood
extols includes $528.4 million from government grants. According to its annual
report, the organization provided 327,653
abortions nationwide and offered 1,880 adoption referrals in 2013.
Here
are six instances of Planned Parenthood’s alleged corruption and abuse:
1) Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned
Parenthood’s senior director for medical services, was caught
on tape detailing what happens
to organs from fetuses that have been aborted. “I’d say a lot of people
want liver. And for that reason, most providers will do this case under
ultrasound guidance, so they’ll know where they’re putting their forceps,”
Nucatola said in the undercover video. The Center for Medical Progress, a
nonprofit organization devoted to medical ethics, released the video on July
14. Planned Parenthood has denied wrongdoing. “On the video, the Planned
Parenthood staff member talks about standard reimbursement fees for costs
associated with tissue donation programs, which every health care provider has
and which the federal law provides for,” the organization said in a statement.
2) Multiple Planned Parenthood
counselors advised underage teenage girls as young as 15 years old to engage in
risky sexual practices, like asphyxiation and beating each other, as long as it
was deemed consensual, according to an undercover
investigation by the pro-life group Live Action.
These counselors, according
to the videos, also told the young girls to learn
from watching Internet pornography and experiment by visiting sex shops, all
without parental guidance. Planned Parenthood rebutted the assertion it was at
fault. “This video does not reflect our education programs, the work our
dedicated employees do every day, nor the experience shared by parents and
teens who participate in our programs,” Betty Cockrum, president and CEO of
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, told
USA Today last year.
3) Planned Parenthood of the
Rocky Mountains was sued
in 2014 for failing to report an abusive
relationship in which a 13-year-old girl was being sexually abused by her
stepfather, who forced her to get an abortion when she became pregnant. The complaint
alleged there were multiple warning signs, such as the girl
being less than the legal age of consent in Colorado, the two going by
different last names and the stepfather’s pressuring the daughter to go on
birth control. According to the complaint, there were allegedly multiple
instances the counselors could have asked the girl about their relationship.
Instead, they stayed silent and gave her an abortion and birth control,
allowing her to go home with her stepfather and continue to be sexually abused.
Marie Logsden, vice president of communications at Planned Parenthood of the
Rocky Mountains, told The Washington Times the clinic “can never comment on the
care of an individual patient, due to privacy laws and our organization’s
long-standing commitment to quality and confidentiality.”
4) Alisa LaPolt Snow, a lobbyist for
Planned Parenthood, defended infanticide in 2013 as she stated that it was the
choice of the “woman, family and physician” whether the infant who survived an
abortion should be allowed to live, according to a Washington
Post report. Snow shared this testimony
in a hearing regarding a Florida bill named Infants
Born Alive. The Washington Post’s Marc
Thiessen added that only after a firestorm erupted in the conservative media
did Planned Parenthood issue a statement that in the “extremely unlikely and
highly unusual” event that a baby were born alive it would “provide appropriate
care to both the woman and the infant.”
5) The pro-life group Live Action
released a videotape of a Planned Parenthood employee in Austin, Texas, advocating for sex
selective abortion, as her client described wanting
only a boy. According to the Live Action video, the Planned Parenthood employee
told her client to wait a few weeks to determine the gender before deciding to
abort the child. “I see that you’re saying that you want to terminate if it’s a
girl, so are you just wanting to continue the pregnancy in the meantime?” the
Planned Parenthood counselor asked. After the video surfaced, Planned
Parenthood fired the counselor, according to The
Huffington Post. “Planned Parenthood insists on the
highest quality patient care, and if we ever become aware of a staff member not
meeting these high standards we take swift action,” a Planned Parenthood
spokeswoman said in a written statement.
6) According to a Feb. 2, 2011,
report from ABC
News, Planned Parenthood fired a manager
in 2011 after her involvement instructing a pimp and prostitute how to get
around the system. As part of a sting set up by the pro-life group Live
Action, a man and woman posed as sex
traffickers seeking advice from Planned Parenthood workers in a New Jersey
clinic. According to ABC News, the couple was overt about their work in the sex
industry that involved undocumented immigrant girls. A Planned Parenthood
worker encouraged them to lie about the age of the minors so that the
organization would not have to legally report them to the authorities.
This
article has been modified to include denials from Planned Parenthood and to
include citations where appropriate.
Comments
Corporate support is being removed from Planned Parenthood
by large supporters like Coke and Congress is voting to investigate Planned
Parenthood.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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