It’s not often that the mainstream media publishes an article critical of the abortion industry behemoth Planned Parenthood. And it’s even more rare that this reporting would pull back the curtain to report on abortion clinics or the business of abortion. But on February 15th, the New York Times published an explosive article, “Botched Care and Tired Staff: Planned Parenthood in Crisis” that revealed “scores of allegations… of poor care” by the enterprise whose slogan is “Care, no matter what.”
In a thorough review of documents and court cases and interviews the New York Times found that “[m]any [clinics] operate with aging equipment and poorly trained staff.” The report includes stories of “sewage from a backed-up toilet seeped into the abortion recovery room for two days” and “an understaffed nursing department did not upload sexually transmitted infection test results into charts, and patients wrongly believed that their results were negative” and “[e]mployees at various affiliates said it was common to run out of over-the-counter pain medication and I.V. flushes.”
More concerning though are the detailed experiences of Planned Parenthood patients. According to this article, clinicians administered an IUD into a pregnant woman who experienced a stillbirth hours later, performed a botched abortion only for the mom to deliver a stillborn 12 weeks later, and one former Planned Parenthood employee explained that “clinics were operating like ‘a conveyor belt’ for patients”– because the Planned Parenthood Federation of America expects “appointments to last about 10 minutes” in spite of staff saying they “need more than 10 to 15 minutes to provide compassionate care.”
According to the article, it’s the struggle for money that causes many local Planned Parenthood affiliates to provide “poor care,” despite (the national group) raising nearly a half-billion dollars since the 2022 Dobbs Decision that overturned Roe v. Wade that it spent almost entirely on abortion policy advocacy efforts (like Amendment 4). Everyone who paid attention to the 2024 election and followed the money reasonably concludes what this article tells us: “leaders [of Planned Parenthood] say they have repeatedly prioritized the fight for abortion rights over clinics” and they justify spending millions on politics “because the political fight was fundamental to the organization’s ability to operate.”
In response, Planned Parenthood’s President and CEO (whose 2023 salary was just over $900,000) went on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and called the New York Times report “an irresponsible piece of journalism,” saying that “it felt like an unwarranted attack,” then pointed to “very crappy reimbursement rates” as a reason for the poor care in clinics. Her solution? More taxpayer dollars to fund abortions. Planned Parenthood CEO said “the challenge is to ensure that Medicaid reimbursement gets increased,” meaning more taxpayer dollars to subsidize abortions.
In their support of Amendment 4, various Planned Parenthood entities made direct monetary contributions totaling $7 Million and an additional $1.3 Million in-kind contributions to the political committee that sponsored the extreme amendment. Many of those in-kind donations were staff time, where Planned Parenthood employees spent time on the clock working to pass the extreme abortion amendment that would have allowed them to perform late term abortions, replace doctors with “health care providers,” stop requiring parental consent and could have opened the door to taxpayers being forced to fund elective abortions.
With your help, Florida was able to defeat Planned Parenthood, their allies, and their radical amendment last November. But make no mistake: they will not stop trying – so we must be ready.
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