In the last issue of the WSR, we brought you information on how Dr. Leana Wen was forced out of Planned Parenthood because she wouldn’t push abortion enough.

Following up on Wen’s statements, the National Catholic Register ran a lengthy article on other former Planned Parenthood employees who left the organization for the same reason. We encourage all our readers to study the full article, Planned Parenthood’s Deception: Former Abortion Workers Share Ex-Planned Parenthood President Leana Wen’s Disillusionment. Below, we bring you some highlights from this article.

• One nurse practitioner worked for 11 years at Planned Parenthood. She told the Register that her affiliate did not provide abortion, but after they merged with another affiliate, she learned that the managers were meeting to discuss abortion quotas. She was told abortion was “how we make our money,” and the idea that it was just a small part of what the group does is “what we want the public to believe.”
• A surgical assistant said she started at Planned Parenthood thinking she was going to be helping women with things like cancer screenings and family planning, with “abortion also being a part of it, but I didn’t think it was such a big part of it until I started working there and realized that it was all abortion.” She said there was “a quota we had to meet every day. We scheduled 50 abortions a day, and it was all about abortion, and it didn’t matter what that woman wanted in that counseling room—my job was to change her mind.”
• A former Planned Parenthood health-center manager said she was fired after 11 months. She said: “Senior leadership started reprimanding me because my abortion numbers were going down. They were going down because I actually started listening to women and talking to them. Women who came in who were uncertain about their decision, I would either cancel their appointment or reschedule.” She said she became “frustrated at the fact that we were telling people we gave women an option; but, in reality, I saw that we did not. We were coercing women; we were basically forcing their hand.” 

The article contains a lot of detailed information, including the names of the former Planned Parenthood employees. Particularly compelling were statements from the former manager of a Planned Parenthood surgical abortion center describing some of the commonplace harm done to women having a surgical abortion. She summed up her feelings and those of other people in the article by saying, “They (Planned Parenthood upper management) didn’t care about their staff members. They didn’t care about the patients. They only cared about the money.”

Planned Parenthood, of course, denies that these occurrences are commonplace, but as more and more former employees reveal what really happens behind the closed center doors, the true picture is emerging. When one understands the tenets of Humanism, as spread by Planned Parenthood, it is not a surprise. After all, Humanism insists abortion, suicide, and euthanasia must be legal, that there is no Heaven or Hell, and the only important thing is to live “the good life here and now.” With that attitude, exploiting the killing of children to make money is acceptable to them.