Testimony from a former Planned Parenthood employee has revealed that the organization focuses on selling abortion services and offers incentives for employees to make more “sales.”
According to a report from the Washington Examiner, Planned Parenthood employees are offered rewards such as paid time off or free pizza for getting more women to get abortions through Planned Parenthood.
Although the organization and its president, Cecile Richards, claims that abortions only make up three percent of its services, testimony from a former employee reveals something quite different.
Sue Thayer was a former Planned Parenthood employee in Storm Lake, Iowa. She shared in a Live Action video how Planned Parenthood employees are trained to sell abortions to women who come through their doors.
"I trained my staff the way that I was trained, which was to really encourage women to choose abortion; to have it at Planned Parenthood, because it counts towards our goal."
Thayer relates the kind of sales pitch she and other employees were taught to have with women:
If they'd say, 'I'm not able to pay [my bill] today,' then we would say something like, 'Well, if you can't pay $10 today, how are you going to take care of a baby? Have you priced diapers? Do you know how much it costs to buy a car seat? Where would you go for help? There's no place in Storm Lake (or whatever town they were in), you know, where you can get help as a pregnant mom. So really, don't you think your smartest choice is termination?'
This tactic has apparently worked well for Planned Parenthood. They performed more than 300,000 abortions in 2015. However, with Republicans in control of the White House and Congress, efforts to defund the abortion provider are on the table.
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Publication date: February 9, 2017
