Defund Planned Parenthood

Just hours ago, Live Action released a new investigation video that proved Planned Parenthood’s eagerness to participate in sex-selective abortions that specifically target unborn baby girls.

Weeks before details of the investigation were made public, Planned Parenthood admitted it was “worried” that it had been stung by Live Action again. Its worries were confirmed this morning.

Planned Parenthood fired a staff member in Austin, Texas who was caught on video assisting a woman in obtaining an abortion in the event that her unborn child was a baby girl. Planned Parenthood has yet to explain exactly what this staffer did wrong.

With regards to obtaining an ultrasound to determine the gender of her unborn baby, the woman asks Planned Parenthood, “Do you think I should go and just ask for an ultrasound and just not tell [the doctor] that I’m gonna terminate if it’s a girl, or…I just feel like there’s been some judgment for my…”

“To be honest with you, um, I would probably think so,” the Planned Parenthood staffer suggests.

“But do you think I still just shouldn’t worry about telling them that I would be terminating if it’s a girl?” the pregnant patient repeats later.

“Right,” Planned Parenthood says. “I would.”

Further, Planned Parenthood encourages the woman to engage in Medicaid fraud to obtain an ultrasound so she can get a late-term abortion if her baby is a girl. The staffer explains:

I have actually applied for Medicaid. Got on Medicaid as if I was going to continue my pregnancy, went through the OB/GYN, and then me and my husband decided we were gonna go ahead and terminate. We terminated, and I still stayed on Medcaid and just got on birth control.

The pregnant woman inquires as to whether she should follow in the same steps as the Planned Parenthood staffer to abuse Medicaid to ultimately obtain a sex-selective abortion: “If we did that, we could probably get pregnant again soon after?” she asks.

“From experience,” the Planned Parenthood staffer explains, “there’s nothing wrong with getting pregnant again immediately afterwards.”

Planned Parenthood subsequently fired this staff member, stating:

Within three days of this patient interaction, the staff member’s employment was ended and all staff members at this affiliate were immediately scheduled for retraining in managing unusual patient encounters. Today opponents of Planned Parenthood are promoting an edited video of that hoax patient encounter.

This is Planned Parenthood’s standard protocol to responding to Live Action investigations: claim the videos are a hoax, fire an employee, then re-train your staff.

This undercover video exposing Planned Parenthood’s involvement in gendercide via sex-selective abortions is one of several to be released in the upcoming weeks.

Federal Judge in Austin Orders Texas to Continue to Fund Planned Parenthood

04/30/2012 AUSTIN, TX -- Today a federal district court in Austin ordered Texas to continue to fund Planned Parenthood under the Medicaid Women's Health Program using federal and state tax dollars.

Under a rule adopted by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission as required by Senate Bill 7, passed last summer by the Legislature, Planned Parenthood would be ineligible to be a WHP provider beginning May 1. Today's ruling by Judge Lee Yeakel prevents that rule from going into effect, at least for now.

Joe Pojman, Ph.D., executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, gave the following statement:
 

We are very saddened that the federal court in Austin ruled today in favor of Planned Parenthood and the will of the Obama Administration and against the taxpayers of Texas. Planned Parenthood runs the largest chain of abortion facilities in our state, and they the mix Women's Health Program and abortions under the same roof at many of those abortion facilities. For example that is the case in Bryan, Dallas, Houston, and Waco. Governor Perry and the Legislature have every right to prevent Planned Parenthood from promoting abortion as a method of family planning with tax dollars.

We believe that today's setback will be temporary and that the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals will recognize the constitutionality of Texas law.

Of the some 2,500 Women's Health Program providers, 98% have nothing to do with Planned Parenthood and abortion. Planned Parenthood, which has no mammogram machines, provides shabby care for low-income women. Planned Parenthood is unable or unwilling to offer comprehensive primary and preventative care, which low-income women deserve. A woman will not see a doctor at Planned Parenthood unless she is there for an abortion. The State ordered Planned Parenthood San Antonio to return thousands of WHP funds in 2009 because Planned Parenthood had been illegally operating unlicensed abortion facilities at the same sites where they providing WHP services.