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Planned Parenthood’s ‘Lack of Resources’ Endangers Women While Organization Spends Millions on Abortion Activism

Jacqueline O’Hara
abortion funding, Planned parenthood
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Planned Parenthood, an organization celebrated among the pro-abortion Left for “championing women’s rights,” is imploding its own narrative. Nationwide, clinics are sinking in lawsuits — and occasionally sewage.

Even the New York Times admits as much. In a recent exposé on Planned Parenthood, correspondent Katie Benner painted a grim picture of the current state of Planned Parenthood across America: inadequately trained staff; providers botching an abortion and sending the woman home bleeding, her baby still inside of her; staff who inserted an IUD into a woman without realizing the patient was already four months pregnant; sewage seeping into a waiting room and prompting patients to vomit from the stench; a toxic work culture for employees whose salaries are so low they qualify for Medicaid and food stamps; and more.

The New York Times piece was quick to bemoan Planned Parenthood’s lack of resources, which it claimed has contributed to the current state of crisis. Yet in the same paragraph, Benner notes that the majority of the organization’s hundreds of millions in donations are spent on pro-abortion advocacy, rather than addressing nationwide failures endangering female patients in need.

Even worse, employees admitted to Benner that “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.”

This shocking admission makes clear that Planned Parenthood’s solution to widespread clinic failures is not to increase salaries, resources, or training; it’s to increase the clientele.

According to Planned Parenthood’s 2016 “Employee of the Year,” Mayra Rodriguez, the organization’s prioritization of income over patients is nothing new. In an op-ed for the Daily Wire, Mayra recounted her 17 years of experience working and rising through the ranks in Planned Parenthood, an experience that ultimately inspired her to become pro-life.

Mayra claimed that her time with Planned Parenthood helped her to discover “the truth about the coercion and exploitation the organization relied upon as part of its business model.” She noted that “contrary to their claim that abortion was only a miniscule part of their services, the abortion clinic I worked in raked in about $20,000 per day compared to their non-abortive clinic which made barely a few hundred.”

Pro-life advocates such as Mayra have long accused Planned Parenthood and pro-abortion advocates of prioritizing profit over the women they profess to serve. Now, pro-life advocates are highlighting Benner’s piece as further proof that Planned Parenthood cares for little more than profit.

Andrea Trudden, vice president of communications and marketing for the pro-life organization Heartbeat International, shared a quote from the piece on X. “‘But leaders say they have repeatedly prioritized the fight for abortion rights over clinics because the political fight was fundamental to the organization’s ability to operate,’” she quoted, adding, “So much for abortion only accounting for 3% of the [Planned Parenthood] business.”

National polling indicates that women are largely averse to abortion as an option, with 60% of post-abortive women reporting that they would have preferred to choose life if they had more resources and nearly 70% of post-abortive women reporting that their abortion was inconsistent with their values and preferences. One in four women reported that their abortions were unwanted or coerced.

Filthy waiting rooms and disgruntled, underpaid and unqualified staff could prove a huge deterrent to prospective clients, especially as pro-life organizations across the nation continue stepping up to provide women with free resources, support, and even educational, financial, and professional resources that enable them to thrive.

Conversely, Benner notes that Planned Parenthood’s attempts to double revenue by doubling patients left many feeling like “they were in a factory,” while one former Planned Parenthood nurse in Minnesota testified that “clinics were operating like ‘a conveyor belt’ for patients. She said that employees sometimes administered expired pain medication or the wrong medications as they scrambled to move people in and out.”

Now, as Planned Parenthood fights to enshrine abortion on demand in state constitutions across America, Benner’s piece has laid its inner failures and unconscionable targeting of new clients bare for all the world to see.

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Jacqueline O’Hara

Jacqueline O’Hara is a Catholic writer from rural Virginia.

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