When Leana Wen was unceremoniously fired as president of Planned Parenthood, she penned a New York Times op-ed citing two reasons for her ouster: 1) Criticism that she “did not prioritize abortion enough.” 2) Resistance to her “attempt to depoliticize Planned Parenthood.”
Considering Planned Parenthood’s insistence that abortion makes up only 3% of its services (a wildly misleading claim given “Three Pinocchios” by the Washington Post), Wen’s focus on the other 97% would seem pretty reasonable. Under her predecessor Cecile Richards (a sharp political operator whose stated goal was to make Planned Parenthood the most powerful player on the Left), both breast exams and cancer screening and prevention services fell by two-thirds. About 95% of Planned Parenthood’s “services to pregnant women” were aborting their children, while adoption referrals made up less than 1%.
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