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The Gray Lady exposes the many medical errors, malpractice, and gross incompetence of Planned Parenthood but blames it all on money shortfalls — even though the abortion giant rakes in nearly $2 billion a year in donations and government funding.
There is an idiom that says, “Even a blind squirrel finds a nut on occasion.”
The country’s “paper of record” published an article, titled “Botched Care and Tired Staff: Planned Parenthood in Crisis,” that accurately details some of the horrors of Planned Parenthood clinics.
The piece lists numerous examples of medical errors, incompetence, and outright malpractice that are enough to turn one’s stomach.
The article begins with the story of patient Nakara Alston who, when she was eight weeks pregnant, went to Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood to get an abortion. Weeks later, though, she was still having painful cramps and heavy bleeding, so she decided to take another pregnancy test. Shockingly, it was positive.
Clinic staff told her not to worry, that they had “seen” the “aborted fetus.” Turns out, though, there was reason to worry. Alston went to the emergency room, where she learned that, in fact, the baby was still in her womb.
Twelve weeks after the “abortion,” Alston gave birth to a live baby, who, as the Times noted, “quickly died.” Alston has since filed a malpractice suit against the facility.
Many others have also filed suit after the “care” they received at Planned Parenthood locations.
In Nebraska, a staff member implanted an IUD in a woman who was four months pregnant. Hours later the woman was rushed to the emergency room where she gave birth to a stillborn child.
Most of the former patients refused to talk with the Times or had signed nondisclosure agreements.
Yet the information the Times did obtain was plenty to document the multitude of problems at Planned Parenthood clinics.
Planned Parenthood doesn’t require medical assistants to have medical training, for example, but many Planned Parenthood clinics do require those same medical assistants to take blood and take vital signs.
Instead, medical assistants in many states “train” for these tasks by spending an hour sticking “fake arms” before practicing on other employees. They then take blood from patients. Not surprisingly, many reported problems, and the Times noted that one former employee often had to take over for medical assistants who were unable to draw blood.
A former clinic manager said that the facility was operating “like a conveyor belt” and that employees sometimes administered expired or even the wrong drugs to patients. She said it wasn’t uncommon for patients to be taken to the wrong room or prepped for the wrong procedure, and sometimes staff only learned about their mistake after the patient asked questions.
Perhaps the most disgusting thing the article discussed (other than, you know, the intentional murder of babies), happened last year at an Omaha clinic, where sewage from a backed-up toilet seeped into an abortion recovery room for two days! Patients vomited from the smell as staff tried to block the leak with exam pads.
Now for most people, not having sewage seep under the door is pretty important when they go to a medical facility.
Yet while the Times did report on these incidents, the article isn’t so much about exposing malpractice as it is an attempt to portray poor, helpless Planned Parenthood and its workers as victims who aren’t properly funded.
If these clinics are failing to provide safe and effective medical care, properly pay and train workers, and keep their clinics stockpiled and free of sewage, it’s only because they don’t have enough money.
But in reality, having enough money is most certainly not an issue for Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood received $997.5 million in private contributions and another $700 million in taxpayer funding in 2022-2023, according to its last annual report, up 43 percent since 2010. It currently has $2.5 billion in net assets.
The problem for Planned Parenthood isn’t funding, it’s where the money is being spent. As the Times wrote of the private donations, “little of it goes to the state affiliates to provide health care at clinics. Instead, under the national bylaws, the majority of the money is spent on the legal and political fight to maintain abortion rights.”
The article noted,
“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.’ Much of the national funding to affiliates went to legal support, public campaigns to expand abortion access and subsidies for patient navigators who help patients access abortions.”
And as SBA Pro-Life America noted in its article discussing the Times piece, Planned Parenthood higher-ups receive millions of dollars in compensation.
And yet, the organization continues to cut the already limited services it provides. As LifeNews wrote,
“During that same period [since 2010], its total services have decreased by 17%, with even larger percentage declines for particular services. Contraceptive services are down 39%, cancer screenings (affected by changing practice guidelines but still reflecting lower patient tallies) are down by 72% for breast exams and 74% for pap tests, and prenatal services are down by a whopping 80% (one California affiliate described by the Times dropped its prenatal services entirely due to what it cited as financial concerns).”
The reason for this is because Planned Parenthood is not a medical organization that seeks to care for low-income women, it is a political organization that exists to carry out its eugenicist mission and to continue to build and protect political power.
Yet do you see any left-wing governors or attorneys general seeking to pass laws aimed at halting Planned Parenthood’s “deceptive business practices” or forcing them to confess to their “limited medical services” or “unsafe” practices? Do they label them “fake clinics?”
No, but those are all things pro-aborts have done to target, harass, and try to shut down pro-life pregnancy resource centers.
Take Illinois, where Attorney General Kwame Raoul wrote and pushed for a law aimed only at pro-life pregnancy centers, claiming they used deceptive business practices solely because they did not provide abortions. That law was challenged in court and a district judge blocked it, calling it “stupid” and “painfully and blatantly a violation of the First Amendment.”
Or Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, who slandered crisis pregnancy centers as “brainwashing cult clinics” where women seek medical help but instead “are greeted by people with no medical background whose goal is to brainwash women with their own ideological agenda.”
Then there’s New York Attorney General Letitia James and California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who are both trying to use the force of the legal system to prohibit pro-life centers from talking about abortion pill reversal, claiming that the practice is dangerous and unscientific. James’s efforts have been blocked twice by judges.
And as the Freedom Center published this past week, Delaware passed a law ordering all pro-life centers to post a false message at the entrance to their clinics and on all communications that states: “This facility is not licensed as a medical facility by the state of Delaware and has no licensed medical provider who provides or directly supervises the provision of services.”
California already tried the same thing in 2018, and the Supreme Court ruled it as unconstitutional in NIFLA v. Becerra.
A key detail in these cases is that these left-wing activists specifically target pro-life clinics but exempt clinics that provide abortion. In many cases, Planned Parenthood even helps craft the laws, as it allegedly did in Delaware.
Abortion supporters are working to destroy all other options for women, forcing them to get an abortion, hopefully at Planned Parenthood, which can then profit off of them.
They falsely claim that crisis pregnancy centers are “fake clinics” and appeal to mythical waves of complaints from ostensibly tricked women who were out looking for an abortion and instead found themselves trapped inside a cult of kindly volunteers who wanted them to keep their baby.
Yet as was determined in Illinois and in Delaware, not one complaint had been filed against the pro-life centers.
Can Planned Parenthood say that? Not according to the New York Times.
It’s time that Planned Parenthood, which receives millions in taxpayer dollars and has been caught actually selling babies’ body parts, is shut down and pro-life pregnancy centers are finally given the appreciation they deserve as true places of love and care for women and their children.
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