Posted on 02/26/2025 8:46:29 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Once in a while, the mainstream media does something useful — even if it’s just saying the quiet part out loud.
I came across a New York Times piece from earlier this month that makes some startling revelations about one of the left’s biggest sacred cows: Planned Parenthood. Reporter Katie Benner begins her piece by telling the story of a woman who went to Planned Parenthood for an abortion.
The single mother still experienced bleeding and cramps after the procedure, so she returned to Planned Parenthood, where clinicians told her that she was fine and that nothing was wrong. She later delivered a stillborn baby at 12 weeks. It’s a heartbreaking account, but it’s also a worthwhile springboard to Planned Parenthood’s failures.
Benner reports:
Planned Parenthood is synonymous with the fight to preserve abortion rights. But it is also the health care provider of last resort to millions of the poorest Americans. Its clinics offer cancer screenings, birth control, annual gynecological exams, and prenatal care, regardless of whether patients can afford to pay. The organization is unique in its reach, one of the few health care providers with a presence in all 50 states.
But a New York Times review of clinic documents and legal filings, as well as interviews with more than 50 current and former Planned Parenthood executives, consultants, and medical staff members, found that some clinics are so short of cash that care has suffered. Many operate with aging equipment and poorly trained staff, as turnover has increased because of rock-bottom salaries. Patient counts have shrunk from a high of five million and 900 clinics in the 1990s to 2.1 million patients and 600 clinics today.
Planned Parenthood has massively fundraised off the Dobbs decision in 2022, to the tune of nearly $500 million...
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Nebraska created a law where the abortionists had to have hospital admittance rights.
Back in the 1980’s PP had locations near college campuses where they gave out birth control and simple exams. It was great for women trying to maintain a level of privacy from school records and prying eyes.
IMHO - abortion is the final hill leftists will die on. Kicking and screaming, they would one-by-one give up all the sacred cows. But, abortion they will hold on to until death.
The Prime Directive of the Democrat party since 1970 has been “Kill the baby”. Nothing new here.
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