Planned Parenthood erases fact that ectopic pregnancy treatment isn’t an abortion from its website

Planned Parenthood has freshly scrubbed its website in light of the media’s attempts to convince women that ectopic pregnancy treatments and other lifesaving procedures are actually abortions. Induced abortion, however, is the intentional killing of a human being before birth.

What did Planned Parenthood purge? A sentence that read, “Treating an ectopic pregnancy isn’t the same thing as getting an abortion.”

The clear distinction that abortion is not necessary to treat dangerous ectopic pregnancies was present on the Planned Parenthood website in 2020, 2021, and most of this year — even as late as July 14, 2022. Since the Supreme Court’s reversal of the infamous Roe v. Wade decision, media misinformation has spread like wildfire, muddling the true definition of abortion in the minds of the public.

Just days ago, Live Action News documented that Planned Parenthood’s website stated, “Treating an ectopic pregnancy isn’t the same thing as getting an abortion. Abortion is a medical procedure that when done safely, ends a pregnancy that’s in your uterus. Ectopic pregnancies are unsafely outside of your uterus (usually in the fallopian tubes), and are removed with a medicine called methotrexate or through a laparoscopic surgical procedure. The medical procedures for abortions are not the same as the medical procedures for an ectopic pregnancy.”

But because the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision returned the regulation of abortion to the states, suddenly pro-abortion media did its best to conflate abortion and ectopic pregnancy.

Now, Planned Parenthood seems to have scrubbed the verbiage entirely. The website now states instead, “Ectopic pregnancies are unsafely outside of your uterus (usually in the fallopian tubes), and are removed with a medicine called methotrexate or through a laparoscopic surgical procedure. The medical procedures for terminating a pregnancy in the uterus are usually different from the medical procedures for terminating an ectopic pregnancy.”

See screenshots below (left, today; right, July 14, 2022): Image: Planned Parenthood ectopic pregnancy language change side by side (Accessed July 14 v July 20 of 2022)

Planned Parenthood ectopic pregnancy language change side by side (Accessed July 14 v July 20 of 2022)

This is not the first time Planned Parenthood has edited or scrubbed information from its website once its “facts” conflicted with its agenda.

In 2015, as Live Action News previously documented, Planned Parenthood began scrubbing Margaret Sanger’s name from one of its prestigious awards. As you can see in the image below, Planned Parenthood’s so-called “Maggie Award,” named “after Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger,” quietly transitioned into the Planned Parenthood “Media Award.” Sanger was a known eugenicist who selected population control enthusiasts, fellow eugenicists, and white supremacists for her board; she was celebrated by Planned Parenthood for decades.

Though Planned Parenthood had begun to scrub Sanger’s name, there was no public reckoning of her racism. That did not occur until 2020, when accusations of systemic racism and white supremacy from within the corporation surfaced publicly. At that point, Planned Parenthood had to admit the racist legacy of its founder.

Planned Parenthood corporate, along with at least 19 affiliates, also acknowledged a present-day problem of systemic racism within the organization.

In 2017, a Live Action investigation exposed Planned Parenthood for being an abortion-focused corporation. The investigation highlighted the fact that virtually no Planned Parenthood locations provide prenatal care, despite the abortion giant’s public claims to the contrary. Soon after, Planned Parenthood purged its website yet again.

The image below from a Planned Parenthood website in Arizona shows the term “prenatal” in bold on the left-hand side just prior to the Live Action exposé. But just a week after the exposure of Planned Parenthood’s false claims, the capture on the right shows how the term disappeared from Planned Parenthood sites. Several examples of this purge were demonstrated by Live Action News here.

In 2019, Dr. Patricia Santiago-Munoz, an OB-GYN at UT Southwestern Medical Center, wrote:

Ectopic pregnancy treatment is not the same as abortion. The medical definition of ‘abortion’ is removal of an embryo and placenta from the uterus. This includes termination of unwanted pregnancy as well as otherwise normal pregnancy in which the fetus’ or mother’s life is in danger. Note the phrase ‘from the uterus’ – the only place an embryo can develop into a baby. Logically, treatment cannot be generalized as ‘abortion,’ particularly because many women with ectopic pregnancies planned to conceive and wanted to carry their pregnancies to term…

It is possible for an early ectopic pregnancy to end in miscarriage on its own. However, in most cases it does not, and medical intervention is needed. To treat ectopic pregnancy, the doctor will recommend either a surgical procedure or a medication called methotrexate. In rare occasions, the drug can have serious side effects, such as liver or skin reactions, so it is important to discuss the most appropriate treatment with your doctor.

A June 2022 Politifact post on ectopic pregnancy care also admitted, “Most of the medical experts we talked to were clear that they don’t consider ectopic treatment an abortion.” The article did not detail precisely which “medical experts” Politifact consulted. On July 6, 2022, Vineeta Gupta M.D., J.D told Forbes, “Treatment of ectopic pregnancy, medical or surgical, is not an abortion but a lifesaving intervention,” and the image below of the headline for an article published by VeryWellHealth.com clearly demonstrates this point. Image: VeryWellHealth Ectopic is not abortion

In March of 2022, outspoken abortionist Jen Gunter, who has been used by Facebook’s Fact Checker in the past, tweeted, “Treating an ectopic pregnancy is not an abortion. It is treatment of an a ectopic pregnancy…” In 2019, Gunter tweeted, “We don’t call treatment of ectopic pregnancy an abortion, we call it treatment of ectopic pregnancy. We don’t do abortions for ectopic pregnancy, we do medical or surgical treatment of ectopic pregnancy.” In a separate Twitter thread Gunter wrote, “Doctors do not call therapy for an ectopic pregnancy an abortion, we call it treatment of an ectopic pregnancy.” She later tweeted, “Speaking with patients is often different and telling someone they were not really pregnant is not correct and could even be cruel. They are pregnant, but it can never result in a live birth. But conflating ectopic pregnancy with abortion is dangerous and wrong.”

So the question remains: why would Planned Parenthood suddenly and at this time choose to remove such clear language about the obvious differences between ectopic pregnancy and abortion?

It never ever has been regarded as the same thing and PP knows that.

We ALL know it.

Doctors know it.

They are trying to equate them. They are not and have never been regarded as the same thing.

No materr how they are trying to warp and cloud things.

2 posted on 07/21/2022 4:54:05 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)

Playing dirty again. To support misinformation (and they falsely accuse our side of that.)

Leftists have to know they are always lying and are wrong and we are right. Otherwise they wouldn’t rely on censorship, banning on Twitter and so on.

3 posted on 07/21/2022 4:54:11 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)

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