This week Planned Parenthood released a video about consent. Teaching about consent is very important to prevent rape, sexual abuse, STI’s, and unintended pregnancy. I am no dummy and am fully aware that the video and the timing of its release were PR driven and the media graciously changed the headlines for Planned Parenthood while Congress continues hearings into accusations of criminal activity regarding its fetal tissue sale (donation.) Despite the importance of the consent message, and its emphasis that a drunk person cannot give consent, I strongly object to Planned Parenthood as the messenger.
The consent video might convince some that Planned Parenthood is a worthy teacher on the subject. It is not. Behind closed doors, Planned Parenthood sends a very mixed and dangerous message about consent in its sex education counseling. Planned Parenthood manipulates and pressures girls and women to make quick and poorly informed decisions to have abortions. Also, according to recent evidence, Planned Parenthood sometimes ignores patients’ written consent regarding fetal tissue donation (sale).
Behind closed doors Planned Parenthood counselors in multiple clinics in multiple states teach a Live Action investigator posing as an underage girl how to engage in dangerous sex including asphyxiation, being tied to a tree, and painful hitting or pinching that can leave marks. In the video below, one Planned Parenthood counselor teaches the undercover investigator to use a safe word because using words like “stop” when she is uncomfortable “can get mixed up,” resulting in the male partner wondering, “Does she really mean ‘stop,’ or does she mean, you know, whatever?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=34&v=pE1feXDfsyc … No! Stop! This is not ok!
In public Planned Parenthood opposes all regulations on abortion including parental consent for minors, which is required for other medical, surgical, and even dental procedures. Abortions can have serious complications, and complex decisions must be made about whether to have an abortion, and if so, what type of abortion, (medical vs. surgical,) and whether the local facility and abortionist are the best choice. Patients should have all the information and time they need to give informed consent. Yet Planned Parenthood opposes providing patients with ultrasound information and opposes waiting periods during which a patient could consider options or get a second opinion. And behind closed doors, according to Abby Johnson, who was the Director of a Planned Parenthood affiliate in Texas, “We manipulated people. We coerced them. We LIED to them. “ (https://www.facebook.com/abbyjohnsonprolife?fref=ts.) When abortion-minded patients seek care at crisis pregnancy centers, which Planned Parenthood maligns as “fake clinics,” as many as 90% of them choose not to have an abortion, https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/what-these-florida-crisis-pregnancy-clinics-rejoiced-when-their-number-of-s, compared to Planned Parenthood where 94% of their pregnancy services are abortions, which makes one wonder.
More recent evidence of Planned Parenthood’s disturbing record when it comes to understanding consent is in the area of fetal tissue donation. Planned Parenthood has patients sign a consent form to donate fetal tissue that states that there will be no changes to how or when the abortion is done in order to obtain fetal tissue. However, in the following video, and in other Center for Medical Progress videos, there are numerous admissions of changing abortion procedures to obtain intact specimens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzMAycMMXp8. Specifically Melissa Farrell, Director of Research PP Gulf Coast admits at 1:12 that they can alter the abortions to obtain intact fetal cadavers, Dr. Nucatola, Senior Director of Medical Services for PP Federation of America, at 2:11 and 2:42 admits changing abortions to breech under ultrasound guidance and at 4:56 she and others describe how digoxin is omitted to protect the tissue while risking live birth. In another video https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=461&v=ABzFZM73o8M, Holly O’Donnell, an ex- Stem Express procurement technician, now whistleblower, describes at 6:21 how a nurse handed her a specimen even when the patient had refused consent!
We should not consent to Planned Parenthood’s unethical consent procedures. And we should not consent to have Planned Parenthood teach sex education or financially support that endeavor with grants. I will address that further in a coming post.
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