Employee accuses Planned Parenthood of bait-and-switch abortions
For several days I’ve been relaying nefarious inside information from current and former employees about the Planned Parenthood Keystone affiliate in Pennsylvania (i.e., unsanitary conditions, slave wages and exorbitant healthcare premiums, and ridiculous patient charges).
On November 12, a worker at Planned Parenthood Allentown wrote this comment about yet another apparent wrong being committed by PP Keystone: bait-and-switch abortions.
Here in Allentown when abortion patients show up half of them don’t know we don’t offer general anesthesia. Talk about informed consent. If they knew that they would all go to Allentown Women’s Center a city over. By the time they realize what’s going on we have already done an ultrasound, tested for STD’s and they have accrued fees. Yes, you heard right. If they change their mind we charge them item for item. 1 fee for Ultrasound. Another for STD testing, another for RH factor, etc. etc. Since most of our patients are poor they stay rather than leave. Who can afford $200 for NOT having an abortion to drop another $500 at another clinic that DOES offer twilight anesthesia.
Another employee had previously told me PP Allentown hopes to soon offer sedation to better compete with Allentown Women’s Center but doesn’t yet.
I called PP Keystone’s abortion hotline this morning and confirmed the Allentown abortion mill indeed does not offer “conscious sedation,” which the operator described as putting one into a deeply relaxed state. Allentown only offers a local anesthesic to numb the cervix.
I spoke with Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Michael Norton about this apparent PP hustle. He said if it is true that PP isn’t providing full disclosure before the onset of one’s abortion in order to pull her in so deep financially she feels she can’t back out, then PP may be violating a state health standard and may also be liable for medical malpractice, which is suable.
“Women who have been tricked and coerced to complete the abortion procedure after being baited to begin the process may have claims of fraud, failure to provide adequate informed consent, reckless endangerment, and pain and suffering,” said Norton. “In addition, Planned Parenthood may be committing both civil and criminal violations.”
Employees who think they have witnessed this bait-and-switch, and patients who have experienced it or who have been harmed at PP, are urged to contact Norton at mjnorton@alliancedefendingfreedom.org.
A message to employees
I want to assure all Planned Parenthood employees (from any affiliate anywhere) they have nothing to fear by anonymously posting on this site, or by contacting me at jill@jillstanek.com. As a citizen journalist, I am protected by the First Amendment from revealing my sources.
Also, some of you have mentioned the idea of unionizing. Go for it! You cannot be fired for attempting to unionize.
On that note, Planned Parenthood Federation of America CEO Cecile Richards is a hypocrite. She is married to Kirk Adams, an executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union, for goodness sakes, who is also a hypocrite.
SEIU boasts “the largest healthcare union in North America with more than 1.1 million members.” Were Planned Parenthood not in SEIU’s sights before, there is no excuse for it not to have been once Richards took over the helm seven years ago. Right under Adams’ nose are prime examples why unionizing was conceived. Again, check out PP workers’ pathetic salaries and impossibly high healthcare premiums.
And Richards, who claims concern for underprivileged communities, is helping perpetuate them by vastly underpaying and underinsuring her very own employees.
Both PP workers and the SEIU are getting screwed by this two-faced couple.
Here are SEIU’s guidelines for forming a union.
UPDATE, 3:45p: Commenter Chris made a great point worth adding to this post:
And there are prolifers out there who will gladly help you find different jobs in other enterprises that truly serve customers! We’re happy to help you make a right decision, it’s a win for us, a win for you, and a win for the lives of innocent human beings! www.attwn.org
I would 100% prefer that workers leave PP and take a healthcare jobs that save lives, not destroy them.
To be clear, the only reason I push unionizing PP is to point out the hypocrisy of its leadership as well as imagine how PP would suffer if forced to pay its workers a living wage and provide adequate healthcare. All that money PP currently spends to fight us and promote abortion would be diverted.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
And there are prolifers out there who will gladly help you find different jobs in other enterprises that truly serve customers! We’re happy to help you make a right decision, it’s a win for us, a win for you, and a win for the lives of innocent human beings! http://www.attwn.org/
Chris, that’s so true I’m adding it as an update. Thanks!
I know people in the SEIU. They are good, hardworking blue coll!r Americans and most of them probably make under 30k a year I think rhey would be shocked at what their president condones AND how much he makes!
I love the attwn logo.
I just said on here several days ago:
No PP employees = no PP clinics = no PP abortions.
Prax, I suggested on another thread that PP employees should ditch abortion and make their clinics into pre-natal clinics with all the positive fixin’s. And, if they did, you can bet I would vote for them to be funded instead of defunded! Add some mammogram machines and a division for adoption referrals, and guess what? I’ll tell my representatives to give you more money. I think women should be able to access health care services that are affordable. But using my tax money to kill humans? Nope.
A local anesthesia does NOT give any pain relief to the fetus, and general anesthesia does. So if they’re manipulating women into using a local, they’re manipulating them into torturing their babies to death. PP is such a scuzzy outfit. I can’t believe I used to respect them, but I haven’t respected them for years.
Management at PP Keystone has got to be angry about these revelations, and looking to make life even more difficult for the workers. The mistrust and paranoia is thick enough to cut.
Get out, before they wreck you with lawyers and lawsuits! Get out of there! Tell them that you don’t know who is talking with Jill Stanek, but you are not comfortable about all of those crazy pro-life people seeing what really happens in your clinic!
We don’t care if you are pro-life or pro-choice or even if you hate us. We love you, and we will help you get better jobs. Philadelphia is a big market. There is always a need for good healthcare workers, and we have lots of friends.
I commend these employees for having the courage to speak out. Thank you Jill and mods for protecting their identities.
Not surprised that PP would use such bait and switch tactics. I wonder if they use similar deception in luring qualified health care staff to be their employees.
Del,
It is. Corporate is angry and scared. They had a managers meeting on Thursday and NO manager was available thats how serious the meeting was. I am talking to other employees (they dont know Im talking here) and their managers are following them around, not letting them carry cell phones, asking them who they are texting on their break. Paranoid!
As for this issue. Several of us have recommended that the informed consent paperwork be done first. This way a patient knows what type of procedure she is having before she incurs charges. We also get alot of patients who want abortion by pill but then dont qualify because they are past 63 days gestation. Many dont want a suction abortion, let alone one wide awake. They cost the same, they jist dont want an invasive abortion. No one listened.
Keystone is trying to shut us up. It wont work. Our managers are showing us emails from HR/security reminding us that releasing this information is grounds for termination. Guess what Keystone the truth will set you free. And talk about paranoid. They think you guys are running a sting operation regarding abortion videos. A couple showed up at the PP Harrisburg close to closing time. They offered someone extra money to sign the paperwork and say they saw the video. That person didnt. But now they gave us a script to use when we have a “suspicious encounter”!!!
I really hope former employees come together and expose these criminals for what they are. And Del, could you forward some information regarding jobs in Philly to Jill. I am not opposed to relocating for a better job opportunities. I will somehow contact Jill.
FoodForThought–
Best wishes to you and the rest of the employees with getting out of there. God bless you all.