'DEFUND 250': Planned Parenthood staff describe its disturbing practices

On July 4, 2026, America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of her founding — but unless Congress votes to continue banning federal Medicaid dollars from abortion providers like Planned Parenthood, July 4 will also be the day that America's most prolific killer of preborn children will see those taxpayer dollars once again pouring into its bank accounts.

Planned Parenthood deserves to be permanently defunded — and Live Action News' series, 'DEFUND 250,' plans to remind the public of many reasons why.

Planned Parenthood has a long history of pulling the wool over people's eyes when it comes to its day-to-day business dealings. It claims to care about women and says it exists to serve men, women, and families.

But Planned Parenthood has long faced allegations of racism, discrimination, poor treatment of women, and putting profits over people. Former staff, who have been exposing the truth for years, have not held back in their accusations — and it's not a good look for the abortion corporation.

Key Takeaways:

• Planned Parenthood claims to serve, but its employees have consistently proven that this is false.

• There have been numerous documented instances and accusations of racism, discrimination, and other mistreatment, as reported by staff.

• Planned Parenthood employees have also admitted that they pressured and coerced women into abortions.

The Details:

#1: 'I was more of a salesman to sell abortions'

Former Planned Parenthood nurse Marianne Anderson explained in 2017 that they were mandated to sell more abortions:

"I felt like I was more of a salesman, sometimes, to sell abortion. We were constantly told, 'You have quotas to meet to stay open.'"

She explained that every facility had a goal for the number of abortions:

"I trained my staff the way that I was trained, which was to really encourage women to choose abortion, to have it at Planned Parenthood, because that counts — you know — towards our goal."

#2: 'We coerced women to abort'

Another former Planned Parenthood employee, Annette Lancaster, explained that women were "kind of being guided into having abortion procedures, even when they came in and they weren't really sure which way they wanted to go — if they wanted to have the procedure, or if they just wanted to come in for counseling."

When women came into the facility unsure about an abortion, Lancaster said the workers were trained to tell them, "[T]his is the best thing for you." Staff also rushed the women through the counseling. She noted:

[E]ventually I started realizing that we were lying to these women. Things that we were telling them were just lies. It wasn’t going to be better for their other children. It wasn’t going to help them continue their career or their schooling. But these were the things that we were taught to tell them, so that they could go ahead and just sign the paperwork and have the procedure done.

Lancaster also shared that, despite being told there was no quota for abortion sales at Planned Parenthood, she was reprimanded for not pressuring women into abortions if they were uncertain of their decision. As a result, her facility's abortion numbers were declining (emphasis added):

"I was being told by regional leaders and regional directors that my numbers were falling. The number of abortions that we were doing on procedure days were falling. And so, I would again come back and ask the question, 'If we have no quota, what is the issue with my numbers falling?' ... You end up being reprimanded. I was written up twice because my [abortion] numbers were going down."

She added that abortion "is a big moneymaker for Planned Parenthood."

#3: 'We've been very good at getting heart, lung, liver'

In 2015, an undercover video of Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood Federation of America's Senior Director of Medical Services at the time, discussed how she harvested organs from aborted babies.

The disturbing conversation exposed a closely-guarded secret of the abortion business — it was profiting twice from some abortions by selling the baby's body parts.

Nucatola described how she would (illegally) alter abortion procedures to procure intact organs for sale. "I'm not gonna crush that part — I'm going to basically crush below, I'm gonna crush above, and I'm gonna see if I can get it all intact," she said.

She went on to state:

"I'd say a lot of people want liver. And for that reason, most providers will do this case under ultrasound guidance, so they'll know where they're putting their forceps. The kind of rate-limiting step of the procedure is calvarium. Calvarium—the head—is basically the biggest part."

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#4: Planned Parenthood is 'more concerned' with money

In 2020, former employee Jessa Crispin accused Planned Parenthood of caring more about its financial profits than about its patients. Her comments expose why the abortion corporation has been expanding into telehealth, despite claiming it has been forced to close brick-and-mortar centers because of pro-life laws.

"Planned Parenthood and other clinics charge $400–$600 (the price varies from region to region and clinic to clinic) for the combination of drugs that induce a medication abortion, despite the fact that the medication only costs about $90 for the clinics. That’s the same amount charged for the surgical procedure – and that’s if you want to experience potential white-knuckling pain during an already potentially emotionally traumatic procedure; if you want pain relief it will cost you much more," she said.

Meanwhile, staffers complained of low pay even as the salaries of CEOs of regional chapters were in the mid-six figures.

#5: 'Throw it in the toilet and flush'

Former health center administrator for Planned Parenthood of Arizona, Mayra Rodriguez, said that once they began selling the abortion pill, she began receiving shocking phone calls from patients.

One woman called and said, "So, you guys told me to push a blood clot on the toilet, and I tried to do that, but I didn’t make it. And it’s not a blood clot; it’s actually a baby. So, what do I do?"

Rodriguez explained, "You're instructed to tell them to go ahead and grab it and throw it in the toilet, and flush and don’t look."

She said the patients would say, "'But you told me it was just a blood clot, but I can actually see the hands, the feet, the face.’ And they will be crying...'You told me I was just going to feel like cramping like a period, but I think I'm dying.'"

She said they were taught to "dismiss them by telling them, 'Just put your feet up... you will be okay. Call me back in the morning.'"

#6: 'Planned Parenthood treated women like cattle'

Former Planned Parenthood manager Ramona Treviño explained that Planned Parenthood shortened its time with patients from 30-minute appointments to half that time.

“It was a struggle because I felt like Planned Parenthood treated women like cattle,” she said. “We talked about reducing the amount of time that we saw our … new patients.”

She added, “When you’re dealing with an initial patient, and that time is reduced … it just seems unethical to not spend that time with your patient and provide the proper care and explanation for something as serious as birth control,” which has a low rate of effectiveness, and then “the next option for her is abortion."

The facility did not offer prenatal care, and "women were just herded through," said Treviño. "It felt wrong."

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#7: 'Minors undergoing abortions with partners of majority age'

Mayra Rodriguez (mentioned above in #5), who won $3 million in damages against Planned Parenthood for wrongful termination, said she had been fired after voicing her concern regarding dangerous practices — including verbal abuse against staff, severely injuring women, and falsifying documents.

She also said they failed to report child sex abuse.

In her complaint, she explained that she "learned that a manager on duty at the PPA Glendale facility was not complying with Arizona law […] regarding a minor undergoing an abortion surgery when her male partner was of majority age.”

This is not unusual for Planned Parenthood, which has a history of failing to comply with laws regarding mandatory reporting of potential child sexual abuse. When Rodriguez complained to the center manager, she received no response.

#8: 'A terrified look in her eyes'

Rodriguez also said she noticed something disturbing about an abortionist at one of the three facilities she directed:

"[I] began to notice a strange pattern occurring in our abortion recovery room: complications, such as perforations, or girls experiencing all manner of mistakes that resulted in blood, pain and crying, seemed to happen on the days when one particular abortionist worked out of our office—the Medical Director of Planned Parenthood Arizona."

She discovered that 50% of the state's reported abortion complications were patients of this particular abortionist. There was even an incident in which a worker ran up to her with "a terrified look in her eyes." The abortionist could not find the head of the baby he had just aborted, yet he inserted an IUD anyway, claiming the head was probably just in the trash.

After Rodriguez challenged him, he did an ultrasound, and the head of the baby could still be seen in the mother's uterus. He had to then remove the IUD and commit a second abortion on the girl to remove her baby's head.

She said:

"This was our lauded doctor of many years who had the complete confidence of the Planned Parenthood executives to be placed in charge of all the other doctors in Arizona and yet he was as incompetent as someone masquerading as a physician…."

#9: 'Two hours of PTO' for selling more abortions

Former Planned Parenthood employee, the late Sue Thayer, said that Planned Parenthood would offer "two hours of PTO [paid time off]" when abortion numbers increased. They would also provide pizza parties. In order to get more women to have abortions, there was specific wording they would use:

“We would say things like, ‘Your pregnancy test, your visit today is X number of dollars. How much are you going to be able to pay towards that?' If they say, ‘I’m not able to pay today,’ then we would say something like, ‘If you can’t pay $10 today, how are you going to take care of a baby?'”

#10: 'Planned Parenthood willfully engages in discriminatory practices with malice'

In 2022, former Planned Parenthood employee Nicole Moore sued the abortion business, alleging "structural racism."

Moore’s legal claim reads:

While Planned Parenthood has publicly boasted its commitment to racial equality, the organization – whose tagline is ‘Care. No matter what’ – has blatantly ignored reports by dozens of its Black employees of systemic unequal hiring and promotion, more work for lower pay, overt hostility, and trafficking in stereotypes by leadership.

Instead of addressing the issues, Planned Parenthood has doubled down by punishing employees of color who dare to speak up, pretextually disciplining them and creating working conditions so intolerable that they are effectively forced to leave.

Moore's Planned Parenthood supervisor reportedly "publicly humiliated and berated" her "in front of other colleagues," her lawsuit said.

She was so mistreated by the company that she suffered a panic attack that left her in the hospital. After complaining to HR, she was fired.

In her lawsuit, she blasted Planned Parenthood for "willfully" engaging in "discriminatory practices with malice and/or reckless indifference to Moore's federally protected rights."

The Bottom Line:

Planned Parenthood's attempts to downplay its abortion business, despite its employees own statements about how abortion is the corporation's number one emphasis, speaks volumes.