Posted on 07/16/2019 1:31:52 PM PDT by Yossarian
Planned Parenthood Removes Leana Wen as President
By Shane Goldmacher July 16, 2019
Planned Parenthood on Tuesday removed its president after less than a year in the job, seeking new leadership at a time when abortion rights have come under increasing attack from statehouses and Republicans in Washington.
The move came after hours of negotiations Tuesday between the board of directors and the president, Leana Wen, according to two people familiar with the decision.
Dr. Wen had been the first physician to lead the organization in decades. The people familiar with the move said there had been internal strife over her management, and that the group felt it needed a more aggressive political leader to fight the efforts to roll back access to abortions.
The board voted unanimously on Tuesday to appoint Alexis McGill Johnson, the co-founder of the Perception Institute, an anti-bias research group, to temporarily replace Dr. Wen, the people said.
Dr. Wen wrote on Twitter after the news broke: “I just learned that the @PPFA Board ended my employment at a secret meeting. We were engaged in good faith negotiations about my departure based on philosophical differences over the direction and future of Planned Parenthood.”
Dr. Wen’s brief tenure — she was appointed last September — has coincided with a fraught moment for abortion rights advocates, as Republican-controlled statehouses in Ohio, Alabama, Indiana, Louisiana and Missouri have all advanced legislation to restrict abortion, and in some cases effectively ban the procedure altogether.
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Translation: PP is not political enough
My guess is that losing taxpayer dollars for their slaughter hurt her cause.
Thank you, President Trump.
You win the internet for the day!
That was a really quick change for such a high profile position. May have been a power struggle of some kind. She certainly seemed to be Pro-Abortion last summer.
Wen did they do that?
Amen - and the rest of the GOP Statehouses and Governors that showed a spine!
Her presidency was aborted in its fourth trimester.
WHHAAAAAA? A company devoted to the murdering of babies acted unethically?? No. Way. *HUGE eye roll*
She didn’t support infanticide?
And this is how CHINA UNDERMINES THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. By INSERTING their OPERATIVES into KEY positions aimed at DESTROYING MY country!
WEN? THANKS BUT NO THANKS, CHINA.
KICK ALL OF THESE CHINESE SPIES/OPERATIVES OUT OF MY COUNTRY!
This news must have torn the nation’s chief abortionist apart.
Wen?
Wonder if she gets a severance package....or a package of severed baby parts.
What is an “anti-bias” research group and why does that qualify the new guy to be the Abortionist in Chief?
At least they didn’t use a tiny vacuum and suck her out piece by piece. She should be grateful...because the irony would have been deserved.
Severed baby parts in brand new Lamborghini.
I suspect they're going to play the intersectional BS game to try to prop up their political power.
(And as an aside, I don't think they'd ever let a man into this role - it's another (anti-)woman.)
They were upset that she wasn’t aggressive enough in fighting abortion rollbacks?
Here I thought they were all about pap smears and mammograms.
Now that States are enacting laws against what PP does and that the federal government is going to defund and micro manage PP, the Board wants a stronger political advocate to lead PP.
........or the Board wants a scapegoat for their failure to lead and their failure to realize that PP must change and modify what it does, if it is to financially survive.
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