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Former President Of Planned Parenthood Shares Shocking Details Of Organization Giving Her Ultimatum After Miscarriage

By • July 29, 2021 7:42 pm

According to Dr. Leana Wen’s new book, “Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public Health,” the former president of Planned Parenthood was forced to split ways with the “women’s health” organization because she did not advocate abortion properly in public interviews.

According to Business Insider, the group also wanted Wen to use a miscarriage she had shortly before leaving her position at Planned Parenthood as a public justification for departing after just nine months on the job.

Based on Wen’s book, Business Insider reported that “on her first full day on the job as Planned Parenthood’s president, Dr. Leana Wen appeared on ABC’s “The View” to talk about her vision for the organization.”

“When the segment wrapped, Wen, who’d left her role as Baltimore’s health commissioner for the gig, was elated that it had resonated with the live, cheering audience. But her new colleagues at Planned Parenthood’s headquarters were not: Wen had failed to say the word ‘abortion,” the outlet reported.

In contrast, Wen claimed that every time she went in public, Planned Parenthood expected her to promote abortion, which the clinic claims accounts for just 3% of its services. She was suspected of further stigmatizing the practice if she did not use the term “abortion” or mention the service in interviews.

“Dr. Leana Wen was given an ultimatum: Change her strategy as president of Planned Parenthood, or leave. The emergency physician and former Baltimore health commissioner had tried to position the organization as a nonpartisan healthcare institution, but its board wanted to double down on its progressive, pro-abortion advocacy,” the outlet noted.

Wen said she was instructed by a Planned Parenthood employee, “You need to talk about abortion at every media interview. You are Planned Parenthood’s president. People expect that from you. Not saying ‘abortion’ sounds as if you’re ashamed of it.”

“If we don’t talk about abortion openly, loudly, and proudly, as a positive moral good, then we are further stigmatizing it and the people who need it,” Wen alleges she was told.

Wen believed that Planned Parenthood should take a more cautious approach to the issue of abortion, that using “pro-abortion” language alienated people who had made a difficult decision to have one, and that Planned Parenthood could be more sensitive to people with “nuanced” views on abortion, focusing more on the abortion provider’s other services.

The reality that Planned Parenthood was far more concerned with its political advocacy than with offering genuine medical care to women eventually led to Wen’s departure.

‘Wen said, ultimately, the tension between her and those around her wasn’t just about abortion but about politics,” Business Insider said.

“Planned Parenthood sees itself as a liberal advocacy organization, outspoken on issues loosely related to healthcare, like net neutrality, defunding the police, and DC’s statehood, she wrote,” according to Business Insider.

“I was given a choice: change, or leave,” she said.

Wen had a miscarriage when she was debating whether or not to leave her job. When she told a coworker what had occurred, the coworker informed higher-ups, who “suggested she use the loss to explain her departure.”

Planned Parenthood’s board of directors voted her out when she refused, a decision she claims she heard about from a news outlet through text message.

Planned Parenthood’s former president says she is committed to the organization’s mission.

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