Former Abortion Clinic Employees Speak Out About Planned Parenthood's Aggressive Sales Focus
And Then There Were None (ATTWN), a pro-life organization dedicated to helping abortion clinic employees leave the abortion industry, released a video Tuesday featuring the stories of four former abortion clinic workers that provided some insight into how the industry and Planned Parenthood approaches healthcare.
Sue Thayer, a former Planned Parenthood manager in Iowa, said that they had “goals for the number of, well, every procedure and product that they sell. So for birth control pills there’s a line, how many you’re supposed to sell in a month, or Depo-provera, same thing, abortion, same thing.”
Thayer also said that in her affiliate “an adoption referral was if a woman picked up that envelope, that bag and it had a pamphlet in there about adoption, that counted as an adoption referral."
“In all my years there, not in any of the 17 centers all across Iowa did we have an adoption, not once,” she added.
A striking claim, given that Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards claimed last year in an interview that “we do a record number of adoption referrals here in Iowa.”
Shelley Guillory, a former abortion clinic nurse at Delta Clinic/Women’s Health Louisiana, spoke about how aggressive the tactics were at her clinic.
“If someone called our clinic and said they needed a pregnancy test it didn’t matter what time of the evening, what time of the day it was, someone went into that clinic and gave her that pregnancy test,” she said, “if that pregnancy test was positive, the following morning she was scheduled to come in for counseling. We didn't tell her we were scheduling for her in to come and get an abortion, but when she came in that morning, she was scheduled for an abortion.”
“They are not interested in other alternatives,” she emphasized, “they have one agenda and that’s to end a pregnancy.”
Monica Leal Cline, a former HIV Health Educator and Title X Training Manager for Planned Parenthood, spoke about the ways Planned Parenthood got around parental involvement requirements.
"Parental involvement to Planned Parenthood is one pamphlet in the lobby that says, ‘Parental Involvement,'” she said, “and they would tell me themselves, ‘Parents are a barrier to service. We don't want parents involved.’”
She added that for STD info they would “give me CDC pamphlets on STDs, to study it, and to just learn to talk to the community about it. They are not trained by some medical staffer, they don’t have a medical degree of any kind.”
"Planned Parenthood, again, is very aggressive,” she concluded. “They are a sales team. They want to make money, and they want as many customers as possible."
Annette Lancaster, a former abortion center manager at Planned Parenthood in North Carolina, said they “never gave parents or the patient any time to read the forms.”
“The whole options counseling, it should have taken at least an hour to 90 minutes, and we would get the whole thing done in about 15 minutes,” she said.
Exclusive: House Passes Bill to Stop Abortion After Unborn Child Can Feel Pain
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WASHINGTON, DC—The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed H.R. 36, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act—which now goes to the Senate–and President Donald Trump promises to sign the bill if it reaches his desk.
Medical science has confirmed in recent years that an unborn child consciously feels physical pain by the twentieth week of pregnancy. This has led pro-life leaders to call for consensus by ending abortions after that point, arguing that even pro-abortion Americans should agree to find common ground in prohibiting a practice when a sentient life form can actually feel the agony of being torn apart.
In response, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), a Christian pro-life champion in Congress, introduced H.R. 36, which would make illegal this late-term abortion practice that many people find gruesome, if not abhorrent and barbaric.
As Franks said at the press conference introducing his bill, “For God’s sake, ladies and gentlemen, this cannot be who we are in America.”
The day before the final vote, on October 2, President Trump’s White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy which said his administration “strongly supports” the bill and applauds the House’s efforts to pass it.
“The bill, if enacted into law, would help to facilitate the culture of life to which our Nation aspires,” the statement reads. “The United States is currently out of the mainstream in the family of nations, in which only seven out of 198 nations allow elective abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.”
“America’s children deserve the stronger protections that H.R. 36 would advance,” the statement concludes.
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives agreed, voting 237 to 189 to prohibit abortion after the twentieth week of the unborn child’s life. The bill now goes to the Senate.
“The primary and overarching purpose of American government is to protect the innocent among us,” Franks said in an statement exclusively obtained by Breitbart News as the bill passed the House.
Franks continued:
The Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act is a bill that finds overwhelming support from all humane Americans. Very late term abortions are an extreme and barbaric practice. The United States is only one of seven countries on earth, including North Korea and China, which allow elective abortions after 20 weeks. For little babies to feel the crushing agony of the abortionist’s tools as they undergo “dismemberment abortion” in the land of the free and the home of the brave is a disgrace that defies human expression. Subjecting innocent babies, from the beginning of their six month of pregnancy and later, to this kind of insidious torture does not reflect the true character of America.
“President Trump has signaled his strong support for this bill to protect thousands of innocent pain-capable, human babies from tortuous and agonizing death,” Franks added. “It now falls upon Mitch McConnell and the U.S. Senate to pass it for his signature.”
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has taken a heavy beating from the Republican base, especially in recent months. Three congressional members who spoke with Breitbart News on condition of anonymity said that pushing this bill through the Senate would help Republican leadership in the Senate get right with their base.
“It is time that America recognizes and responds to the cries and humanity of these helpless little pain-capable babies and the inhumanity of what is being done to them,” said Franks.
A poll from Quinnipiac found that 68 percent of women support legislation prohibiting abortion if the child can feel pain.
Ken Klukowski is senior legal editor for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @kenklukowski
House Republicans, Pro-Life Leaders Celebrate Passage of the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
Washington, D.C. - House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) hosted a reception in his office Tuesday evening with various pro-life leaders and GOP lawmakers to celebrate the passage of the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which passed the House in a 237-189 vote that was mostly along party lines with three Democrats that voted for the bill.
The bill would ban abortion at 20 weeks, the point at which science increasingly shows that unborn children feel pain.
Leader McCarthy thanked all of those gathered for their support of and advocacy for the legislation. He also thanked his colleagues, noting that it was wonderful to see so many of them lining up to testify about the importance of the legislation on the House floor.
He particularly thanked Rep. Karen Handel (R-GA) who had given a personal, moving testimony just before the vote about the birth of her sister.
“It is extraordinarily heartbreaking when an unborn baby is diagnosed with a severe and life threatening abnormality; still, that baby deserves a right to life and right to dignity,” she said. “My sister was born with no esophagus and given little hope to live and by the grace of God and a miracle within just weeks of her birth a new technology, a new treatment came forward and today she is a proud mother of my two nieces.”
Opponents of the bill argue that late-term 20 week abortions should be permitted in case of severe fetal abnormalities which are sometimes caught late in the pregnancy.
McCarthy led a round of applause for the bill's sponsor Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) who was present with other strong advocates of the bill, including Reps Diane Black (R-TN), Chris Smith (R-N.J.), and Vicky Hartzler (R-MO).
He also mentioned Micah Pickering, a five-year-old boy born prematurely at 20 weeks, who had been at his side when he initially announced the legislation last week. He said Micah had "put a face" to the legislation and displayed a blue bracelet that Micah had given him which read ‘Miracles for Micah.’
In his speech on the floor just prior to the vote, McCarthy emphasized that “we should care for the marginalized—for those who have their very humanity denied even as their noses, eyes, ears, heartbeats, and every movement are visible testaments of their life."
“Micah is a beautiful kid,” he said, “and there are millions of Micahs who will never smile. Micahs who will never walk. Micahs who will never scrape their knees and get into trouble. Micahs who will never learn to read. Micahs who will never fall in love and have children of their own. Micahs who will never have the chance to tell their mother and father, ‘I love you.’”
“We will never know these Micahs,” he said. “Our lives are poorer because their lives were cut short. But there are more. Instead of pain—instead of pain—we should fill them with love.”
At the reception, one attendee emphasized that they can really celebrate when Micah is in the Rose Garden, as Trump signs the bill into law.
President Trump promised to sign the bill on the campaign trail and the White House released a statement Monday formally backing it. However, the bill will first have to be taken up and passed by the Senate. The bill will face some tough odds in the Senate as it needs 60 votes for passage and Republicans hold only 52 seats.
McCarthy said he was hopeful that the bill would pass the Senate, thanking his friend Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), who was also present, for his continued support of the measure.
Those gathered also included Marjorie Dannenfelser, President of the Susan B. Anthony List, Jeanne Mancini, CEO of the March for Life, Penny Nance, President of Concerned Women for America, and Carol Tobias, President of the National Right to Life Committee.
“Today’s vote to pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act was a win for basic human decency,” Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a statement.“Thanks to Leader McCarthy and Rep. Trent Franks, we are one crucial step closer to protecting thousands of unborn children nationwide from painful late-term abortions. It was also especially fitting that strong pro-life women like Rep. Karen Handel and Rep. Liz Cheney were at the forefront to introduce the bill and lead debate. Polls consistently show that large, diverse majorities of Americans support this legislation – women in higher numbers than men.”
“The United States is one of only seven nations in the world that allow children in the womb to be killed for any reason up until the moment of birth, putting us in the company of China and North Korea,” she pointed out. “Our nation does not belong in that disgraceful club. Momentum has long been building for national legislation to protect babies at five months. Twenty states have passed their own Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Acts.”
"The March for Life stands with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and everyone who voted to pass Micah’s Law (the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act),” Jeanne Mancini said. “This common sense policy that would limit abortion to five months reflects the consensus shared by eight out of ten Americans - abortion should have real legal limits. This bill will not only save between 11,000-18,000 lives a year, but will serve to educate the public on the humanity of the unborn person and affirm the science of fetal pain early in development.
“We now ask the Senate to also vote on this legislation so that President Trump can fulfill his promise of signing this bill into law," she added.
“Abortion is the human rights issue of our time,” Penny Nance said in a statement. “Regardless of where one comes down on the issue of life, it is undeniable that an unborn child can feel pain at 20 weeks’ gestation. Not only does this legislation protect unborn children, but it also protects women who face substantially higher risk of complications from a late-term abortion.”
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