‘I was no different than a slave trader’: Former Planned Parenthood worker says abortion was pushed on minorities

In 2016, The American Feminist published an article profiling former abortion workers. One worker, named Rhyan, worked at Planned Parenthood for four months, but quit because she became disgusted with the constant pressure put on her to sell abortions. She also saw that patients at Planned Parenthood were treated differently depending on their race.

Originally hired as an appointment scheduler, she quickly discovered her real job was talking as many women into abortions as possible. The American Feminist article states:

Abortions were more lucrative to Planned Parenthood than visits for birth control or Pap smears. Therefore, calls from women seeking abortions were more important to scheduled and were given top priority. Women seeking birth control or actual health care services were forced to wait, when abortion calls were immediately sent to the top of the queue.

Requests for this procedure at Planned Parenthood were sent to the top of the queue.

Planned Parenthood’s focus on abortion is apparent in the statistics revealed in the video below. Planned Parenthood only does 0.97% of the nation’s Pap smears. They do only 1.8% of the nation’s breast exams. But they do 30.6% of the nation’s abortions. Planned Parenthood does not own a single mammogram machine, and does not do mammograms.

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Another part of Rhyan’s job was determining whether women were eligible for financial help for their abortions. Pro-abortion groups, like the Justice Fund, sometimes offer funds to cover abortions for women who cannot afford them. Former Planned Parenthood worker Sue Thayer talked about the Justice Fund in a webcast sponsored by And Then There Were None, a group that helps abortion workers escape the abortion industry:

The Justice Fund only paid for abortions. There was no financial aid available to women for Pap smears, breast exams, pelvic exams, or birth control. Financial aid was given only for abortion.

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Rhyan explains how the main factor determining whether women would be offered financial aid was race:

Every day, Rhyan saw how Planned Parenthood pushed abortion on her fellow African-Americans, offering them financial aid on the basis of race. She eventually became so disgusted with this that she now refers to Planned Parenthood as “Plantation Parenthood.” She says, “I woke up one day and realized I was no different than a slave trader.”

Why was Planned Parenthood offering financial aid only to African Americans? Were they more eager to abort minority babies than white babies? Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was a eugenicist who even spoke before the Ku Klux Klan. Sanger launched “The Negro Project,” a birth control campaign that targeted southern Blacks in an attempt to reduce their numbers. The now infamous words she wrote in a letter to Clarence Gamble revealed her desire to eliminate the African American race: “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”

A past Live Action investigation revealed modern-day Planned Parenthood’s willingness to target Black babies for abortion:

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In a document in praise of Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood’s “Margaret Sanger – Our Founder,” Planned Parenthood called Sanger “a trailblazer in the fight for reproductive rights.” But even they had to acknowledge Sanger’s racism:

Rhyan’s story indicates that racism is still alive and well inside Planned Parenthood.

Source:  Ellen J Reich “An Insider’s Look into the Abortion Industry” The American Feminist Fall/Winter 2016