After Hour Abortions

From Marjorie Dannenfelser
President, Susan B. Anthony List

I just got off the phone with Mary and Christina from our office. They are on their way back from Delaware where this morning, three former Planned Parenthood employees testified before state legislators.

Their testimony was revealing… Not only did the Planned Parenthood of Delaware clinic perform an obscene amount of abortions, but they showed an utter lack of concern for the health and safety of the young, poor women.

Do you remember the disturbing testimony from a few months ago? We heard about Dr. Liveright’s habit of performing abortions without gloves and without cleaning the operating table between patients – some abortions happening in the blood and fluid from the last.

I didn’t think anything could shock me after that, but Mary and Christina started tweeting out the testimony from the former manager of the Planned Parenthood of Delaware clinic. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.

Not only was the clinic overwhelming their staff with the absurd amount of abortions on a daily basis, but apparently their work wasn’t limited to normal office hours.

Abortionist Eric Schaff performed abortions “after hours” without any support medical staff (although the daytime workers were poorly trained – if they were trained at all). His hubris took the lives of women into his hands. It’s sheer arrogance. Who knows how many women were injured?

But that’s not the most shocking news from the testimony … at least one representative of Planned Parenthood Federation of America – the national organization – knew that these after hours abortions were occurring. Complaints from staff and management made their way into the national organization’s system. They did nothing.

Planned Parenthood may be leading the public relations campaign to call Kermit Gosnell a rogue abortionist – but they chose to remain silent to the problems inside their own clinics!

The consequences of this – of championing abortion under the guise of health care for women – will prove tragic in state after state.

Iff Mary and Christina hadn’t been at the hearing today, I’m not sure how I would have found out the details – that is why it was so important we were there today, and this is why our efforts to expose the abortion industry’s abuses are so important. If we don’t, who will?

This story has the potential to explode, just like the Gosnell trial did – if only we push hard enough!

Even the women testifying today kept repeating how many similarities there are between the cases.

We can’t let abuses from the abortion industry go unnoticed. America needs to know that Planned Parenthood and the rest of the abortion industry are not the defenders of women they claim to be.  


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