Planned Parenthood: No justification needed for abortion
This article originally appeared in this issue of the WSR: 2012-06-13

Within the past three weeks, Live Action has released undercover videos from four facilities showing the abortion industry sanctioning sex selective abortions. Two of those videos are from undercover stings at Planned Parenthood facilities.

In Austin, Texas, an actress claiming she wanted to abort her baby if tests show it’s a girl was counseled by the Planned Parenthood worker that she would have to wait until about five months gestation to determine the sex of her baby. The worker went on to say that, if tests show it is a girl, she can return to Planned Parenthood up to 23 weeks gestation to abort her daughter. Planned Parenthood said the counselor was not acting within the organization’s protocol for such scenarios and fired her.

The Huffington Post reported that a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood Federation of America told them in connection with the incident that “the organization condemns seeking abortions on the basis of gender, but its policy is to provide ‘high quality, confidential, nonjudgmental care to all who come into’ its [facilities]. That means that no Planned Parenthood clinic will deny a woman an abortion based on her reasons for wanting one, except in those states that explicitly prohibit sex-selective abortions (Arizona, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Illinois).” The Planned Parenthood official claimed that it was highly unusual for a woman to seek a sex-selective abortion at PP facilities.

Another video released days after the Texas sting video showed Planned Parenthood personnel at the Margaret Sanger facility in New York City helping a woman determine the sex of her baby so she could have a sex-selective abortion if the child was a girl. She coaches the woman on what tests to take, advises her to use her insurance to get an OB/GYN to test her so she can determine the sex of the child, and tells her it is no one’s decision but her own whether she terminates the child because of her sex. “Here at Planned Parenthood we believe that it’s not up to us to decide what is a good or bad reason—for somebody to decide to terminate a pregnancy. It is up to each individual person to decide what you feel like is best for you and your family,” the counselor says. She then agrees to schedule an abortion appointment for the woman just in case the test confirms that she is pregnant with a girl, and tells her the cost at 16 weeks will be $650.

On the one hand, Planned Parenthood says it condemns female gendercide while, on the other hand, it facilitates it. The information gained through these stings adds another layer of evidence that indicts Planned Parenthood of waging a war on women—all for the sake of the hundreds of dollars it pulls in for killing a preborn baby, regardless of sex. It is truly an equal opportunity death chamber, dissecting tiny defenseless children, non-judgmentally, so long as the money is deposited on the way in.

All this happens with the backdrop of Planned Parenthood receiving $1.3 million in government funding each and every day. When will the madness stop? It is time to stop all government funding of Planned Parenthood. Go to our Defund Planned Parenthood Action Center today to send a letter to Congress demanding that Planned Parenthood be defunded NOW!