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.

by Kelli

According to Operation Rescue, the pro-life campaign to end late-term abortion in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has been targeted by cyber-criminals:

The campaign website for a pro-life group supporting the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Ordinance in Albuquerque, New Mexico has been hacked….

At first glance, there is nothing unusual about the e-mail address on the contact page at the pro-life website LateTermAbortionBan.com. However, once the link is clicked, e-mail does not go to “abqvoters@gmail.com” as one would expect. Instead, e-mail is directed to “info@respectabqwomen.org,” the e-mail address for an opposing group, Respect ABQ Women, which supports abortion through all nine months of pregnancy and has connections to Pres. Barack Obama’s radical leftist political activism group Organizing for Action.

Tara Shaver, chairperson for the [PAC]… “[has] reported this criminal behavior to the FBI as a cyber-crime”…

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by Kelli

The Democrats’ promise of independence for women is an empty promise.

As we approach two pivotal elections in 2014 and 2016 it’s rather vital for the survival of our democratic republic that women pay heed to the fact that not all forms of independence stem from the womb….

They hold the baby rattle over women’s heads to distract them from the true intention of the party. Dependence. This is a deception dripping in irony because women have fought for centuries for independence of mind and spirit.

The Democrats are ignoring women as a complete soul — one of intellect, courage, talent, and leadership — and focusing on the age-old tradition of treating women as sexual objects.

Haven’t we been trying to prove for centuries that we are more than our bodies? Yet this is the sole focus of the Democrats’ campaign for women — because it’s the only one they have — their reproductive organs….

Yet independence is varied and complex to the complete woman. It reaches beyond — way beyond — sex.

What good is sexual freedom if all other freedoms are sacrificed in the process?

Actress and talk radio host Janine Turner, PJMedia.com, November 7

by Hans Johnson

The Susan B. Anthony List has purchased a $50,000 television ad buy in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in support of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Ordinance, to be voted on next Tuesday, November 19.

The weeklong campaign will feature three ads, two focused on the common sense aspect of passing legislation to ban abortions past the point babies can feel pain, and one on human compassion trumping politics…

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SBA List also has two full-time field staff on the ground in Albuquerque to help coordinate local pro-life groups and activists. Coalition activities include:

• Volunteer phone banking and canvassing to identified pro-life voters
• Running a full-page newspaper ad in the Sunday Journal
• Airing ABQ Voters For Late Term Abortion Ban radio ads on three stations
• Holding a Right to Life of New Mexico press conference with practicing OB/GYN doctor and former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino
• Sending out Protect ABQ Women & Children absentee ballot applications to over 30,000 voters and early voting information to over 40,000 voters
• Sending 14,000 mail pieces to New Mexico Right to Life members in ABQ
• Distributiing 50,000 pieces of literature encouraging early voting throughout churches and parishes.

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

by Carder

We have two kids. And they’re so great. And I never wanted kids before, but now I want, like, five….

I honestly never ever used to want to want kids because I’m kind of selfish with my career, but going to soccer games with Seth and doing homework with Savannah – I just really love it y’all…

It’s so cool. It sounds so cheesy but it’s such a bigger point to life. I really lucked out with the whole kid situation.

They’re amazing.

~ Singer Kelly Clarkson, on the impression her new stepchildren, ages 11 and 7, have had on own her outlook bearing her own, as quoted by US Magazine, November 12.

Clarkson married Brandon Blackstock on October 20, and the two have already been “hard at work trying to get pregnant as soon as possible,” according to US.

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli

We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com.

• Secular Pro Life applauds abortion workers who outed the illegal operation of a notorious abortionist:

  Abortion workers in Philadelphia have done the right thing, likely saving the lives of unborn babies and, quite possibly, the lives of women as well.According to Operation Rescue, it was abortion workers who outed Steven Chase Brigham’s illegal operation of an abortion business in Philadelphia.

• We are so used to celebrities being pro-abortion, but A Voice for Hope decided to list openly pro-life celebrities. She found 71. The list may surprise you. Did she miss anyone?
• Stand for Life reports on anti-abortion “truth trucks” showing pictures of abortion victims in Albuquerque during early voting to ban late term abortions there. Voter turnout is high, according to reports. Local news covered reaction to the photos:

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• Wesley J. Smith comments about New Jersey nurses being told that they would be fired for refusing to assist with elective abortions.  Their own union backed the hospital’s threat to terminate for their refusal to participate. Alliance Defending Freedom lawyers were able to prevail in their lawsuit, but what it  took to do so causes deeper concerns:

  I am convinced that cases like this are the opening stanza of a coming symphony of pressure against Hippocratic medical professionals. Indeed, very powerful forces in politics, culture, and medicine want to conscript medical professionals to participate or be complicit in abortion – and eventually, assisted suicide/euthanasia. (Victoria, Australia, already has such a law for doctors regarding abortion and Quebec’s new euthanasia legislation would force doctor complicity.)

• At Pro Life Action League, Monica Miller, Director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, tells how chronicling a terrible finding saved another baby from abortion.  After a pro-life activist retrieved the remains of 17 aborted babies from a dumpster in Lansing, Michigan, as well as the names of the mothers who aborted them (talk about a HIPAA violation!), Monica painstakingly photographed the remains:

  One  of the photos was of a tiny arm and hand of a 7-week aborted baby, torn at the shoulder.

  This photo was printed in my book Abandoned: The Untold Story of the Abortion Wars.

  How that photo saved another life is a touching read. You just never know.

• Bryan Kemper of Stand True shares an incredible story of a harsh beginning for a young man whose  family members thought should have been aborted. The story of this life is hard to read but has an ending that makes you smile and agree taking the life in the womb is never the answer despite the circumstances surrounding the conception and birth. This is Bryan’s own story and shows that God has a plan for each life.

Planned Parenthood Keystone is the gift that just keeps giving, although I’m sure any closely scrutinized Planned Parenthood would render equally appalling information.

PP Keystone is an affiliate that covers “37 counties in Pennsylvania, home to over half of Pennsylvania residents,” according to its website. “We operate 17 medical centers that serve over 52,00 patients annually.”

Last week we learned about unsanitary conditions at one of those centers, and yesterday we learned about the slave wages PP Keystone pays, particularly atrocious when compared to the insurance premiums it charges the same workers, nearly equal to the wages.

Today I learned that PP Keystone charges abortion patients $20 to watch a video.

When I spoke by phone to a PP Keystone abortion sales agent, I was told the “information session,” which she explained is watching a video containing what  plannedparenthoodpa.org describes as a ”mandated lecture,” is an add-on fee to the cost of an early abortion, which, she said, ranges from $310-440.

The origin of the video is the 1989 Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act, which includes, per PP:

… A mandated lecture with materials produced by the state. This lecture includes outdated and exaggerated information, and was included in the law as an attempt to convince women not to go forward with the procedure. There is no other medical procedure in existence which includes similar protocol.

For a woman under the age of 18, before the 24-hour waiting period goes into effect, a parent must come in to witness the mandated lecture.

In medical terminology this is called “informed consent,” and I beg to differ with PP that “no other medical procedure in existence includes similar protocol.” The reason the PA legislature had to write the law is because abortion is the only medical procedure in existence where consent is as uninformed as possible.

Abortion is also the only medical procedure in existence where one apparently has to pay extra for informed consent – consent that takes no staff time except to push a button. So the video actually saves clinics money.

The $20 fee is one of those slimy sales gimmicks we are all familiar with where the price of a product or service is jacked up upon delivery for “extras” one should not have to pay extra for.

PP claims to care about poor and disadvantaged but sure seems to find ways to squeeze more out of them.

Red Box charges 20 times less to rent a DVD, and at least you get to keep it overnight.

In this case, PP doesn’t want the video to leave its property, nor is it available on YouTube. Wonder why.

by Jill

Jimmy Kimmel’s attempt to channel Art Linkletter went terribly awry when a kid on his young panel suggested the U.S. “kill everyone in China” to solve its $1.3 trillion debt problem, to which Kimmel responded, “Ok, that’s an interesting idea.”

While China has killed millions of its own via its one-child policy to solve its own debt problems, it doesn’t want to hear it from anyone else. Chinese in both America and at home are up in arms, demanding yet a third apology from ABC, “this time, ‘with a sincere attitude,'” according to Time.

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[Photo via Yahoo TV]