Four reasons why Planned Parenthood abortionists aren’t ‘brave doctors’

To announce her departure as president and CEO of Planned Parenthood, political organizer Cecile Richards made a video, replete with sentiment toward all the people who have helped to further the so-called noble cause of “women’s health.” One notable comment Richards makes in the video is striking in its audacity. She speaks of her gratitude that began her first day of work, for Planned Parenthood’s “brave doctors.”  She says of Planned Parenthood’s work under her tenure:

But what these “brave doctors” do to change and save lives is not quite as heroic as Richards asserts. In fact, it’s the opposite:

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1. Planned Parenthood’s “brave doctors” harvest aborted baby body parts

In 2015, The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) was instrumental in showing the reality of what Planned Parenthood’s doctors do. CMP’s undercover videos pulled back the veil of the abortion industry.

The videos began with a meeting with Planned Parenthood’s director (at that time) of medical services, Dr. Deborah Nucatola. The first video shocked many Americans because Nucatola sat eating a salad and sipping red wine as she explained to the undercover reporters how carefully the Planned Parenthood abortionists executed abortions to get the right body parts intact:

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Nucatola trained another abortionist who revealed her “brave” techniques to CMP. Dr. Amna Dermish from Planned Parenthood in Austin, Texas. CMP reported on Dermish’s goal in abortion — to extract an intact fetal brain:

As CMP investigators tell her they heard about this from Nucatola, the conversation grows more disturbing:

Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Medical Directors’ Council President, Mary Gatter, infamously told CMP she needed to figure out the cost of body parts of aborted babies for personal gain, saying, “Let me just figure out what others are getting, and if this is in the ballpark, then it’s fine, if it’s still low, then we can bump it up. I want a Lamborghini.”

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Gatter adds:

As CMP noted:

2. Planned Parenthood’s “brave doctors” flagrantly break the law

In the Lone Star state, CMP showed us the truth about some lone ranger “doctors” who disregarded federal laws for the bottom dollar at the cost of a baby’s life. Interviewing Director of Research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Melissa Farrell, CMP revealed that baby’s lives are just line-item products. CMP noted:

Then there’s Dr. Suzie Prabhakaran, the Vice President of Medical Affairs for Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida, who tells how she gets around the federal partial-birth abortion law by filling in a checkbox saying she “intends” to do the abortion by the book (which would entail killing the baby inside the womb with a feticide and then dismembering him). Instead, she admits she doesn’t use the feticide, and says she only has to verify that she “intends” to do so:

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This is reminiscent of Nucatola’s statement who says in the first video (emphasis added):

There are a myriad more comments and confessions of these “doctors” and their alleged bravery. The National Review highlights some in a piece it released after one of the last videos in 2017. Some abortionists’ comments:

• Given that we actually see the fetus the same way, and given that we might actually both agree that there’s violence in here…. Let’s just give them all the violence, it’s a person, it’s killing, let’s just give them all that. – Dr. Lisa Harris, the medical director of Planned Parenthood of Michigan

• An eyeball just fell down into my lap, and that is gross! [laughter from the crowd] – Dr. Uta Landy, the founder of the Consortium of Abortion Providers (CAPS), Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA)

• The fetus is a tough little object, and taking it apart, I mean, taking it apart on Day One is very difficult…. You go in there, and you go, “Am I getting the uterus or the fetus? Oh, good, fetus. [Robinson makes a stabbing sound effect] What have I got? Nothing. Let’s try again. – Dr. Susan Robinson, an abortion provider at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte

3. Planned Parenthood’s “brave doctors” put women at risk

Other Planned Parenthood abortionists do work at such a low standard that women get rushed to the hospital. Operation Rescue has reported on many women being rushed to hospitals from abortion facilities, like this woman, rushed to a New York City hospital last month.

Operation Rescue reports on Marc Elliot Heller, who was the Medical Director for Planned Parenthood Mohawk Hudson, Inc.  in New York, who discussed his abortion practices in an interview with a Cornell graduate student. Heller revealed:

The issue with ambulances being dispatched without lights or sirens in order to cover up the gravity of the situation was so endemic in Missouri that the state passed a law to prevent the abortion corporation from endangering more women. A Missouri Senate report detailed the myriad violations of Planned Parenthood’s St. Louis facility.Additionally, as of last year, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri had sent its 65th patient to the hospital since 2009. Operation Rescue analyzed inspection reports on this affiliate on its multitudes of safety violations. The ensuing list is an astounding compilation of medical violations that repeatedly endanger the lives of women expecting one of those “safe and legal” abortions.

Despite the overwhelming evidence that shows Planned Parenthood abortionists only serve to give the entire profession a bad name by harvesting the body parts of aborted babies–some of whom are born alive–putting women in danger, and even killing them, Richards still praises those “brave doctors.” In Planned Parenthood’s official statement of Richards’ resignation, the abortion profiteer summarizes its medical triumphs (emphasis added):

“Cutting-edge research” appears to include taking a living baby and cutting up its parts to ship off to the highest bidder.

4. Planned Parenthood’s “brave doctors” believe women aren’t equal without abortion

Yet the abortion giant continues to deceive otherwise intelligent people, such as Senator Kamala Harris, who worked hard to investigate and prosecute not Planned Parenthood, but the undercover investigators of CMP, when she was California’s Attorney General. Harris made a statement on Richard’s departure, saying:

Harris, Richards, and every physician who uses his or her gifts and skills to kill preborn babies instead of saving lives prove they do not value “true equality,” because the most innocent human of all is violently destroyed.

So are these abortionists brave? Perhaps one might spin it that way, if “brave” is defined as flagrantly breaking the law and bringing destruction, all without shame or remorse. But that’s not how law-abiding people with integrity would define bravery.

It’s just how they define it at Planned Parenthood.