Ex-Planned Parenthood workers: Some women were bribed to abort

In a recent webcast by the pro-life group And Then There Were None, three former Planned Parenthood workers spoke about the Justice Fund, a type of financial aid offered to women who want abortions but can’t come up with the money to pay for them. In practice, this fund gives women financial incentive to choose abortions.

In the webcast, former Planned Parenthood worker Sue Thayer (pictured) gave some background on the Justice Fund, explaining how workers at her facility suggested various ways for women to pay for their abortions. Workers only mentioned the Justice Fund if a woman had exhausted all her other options:

Abortion workers would first try to convince women to add to their credit card debt or borrow the money. But if there was no other way a woman could pay, workers used the fund to ensure that the women went through with their abortions.

Not surprisingly, only a small fraction of Justice Fund money was put up by Planned Parenthood itself. There were some cuts made to workers’ salaries to add money to the fund. But the vast majority came from donations. Abby Johnson explains (emphasis added):

So all Planned Parenthood facilities as well as some other abortion facilities are eligible to use the Justice Fund.

The Justice Fund is only for abortions. As former Planned Parenthood worker Annette Lancaster notes:

There is no fund at Planned Parenthood that helps women pay for cancer screenings, pap smears, or breast exams, which are actual health services women need. Instead, the fund exists just to finance abortions. That Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry offers financial aid to women who want abortions, but not to women who can’t afford cancer screenings or even contraception, shows where their priorities lie.

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The women were given gift cards. And the gift cards paid not just for the abortion procedure itself, but for transportation, hotel bills, etc. Lancaster explains:

According to Abby Johnson:

Some women exploited the system and were actually able to make money having abortions:

“Frequent Flyers” (a term used by other abortion workers as well) were women who came in for repeat abortions over and over again. A previous Live Action article told the story of Angie, who cheerfully went to an abortion facility for her ninth abortion. She saw the remains of her aborted baby and became hysterical with remorse for her abortions.

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A number of abortionists and abortion workers have commented on how women coming for repeat abortions makes them uncomfortable. One abortion worker expressed disgust at a woman having her eleventh abortion. Other abortion workers have spoken about their uneasiness with these women as well.

The women who were given Justice Fund money had an added incentive to go through with their abortions. They actually made money having them.

None of the former abortion workers who spoke in the webcast talked about how common these Justice Fund abortions were, but with a fund of $23 million, one can imagine that a significant number of women across the country take advantage of this program.