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Planned Parenthood staffers: toxic work environment, pregnancy discrimination, intimidation, prioritizes profit over care
Posted in Alan F. Guttmacher, Planned Parenthood Employee, Planned Parenthood former employee, Planned Parenthood Low Wages, Planned Parenthood Pregnancy Discrimination, Planned Parenthood Reviews, Planned Parenthood Unions, Planned Parenthood Whistleblower, Planned Parenthood Work Environment, Pregnancy Discrimination with tags Alan F. Guttmacher, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Cecile Richards, Dawn Laguens, Dr. Leana Wen, Faye Wattelton, Former Planned Parenthood Employee, Former Planned Parenthood staffers, herded like cattle, intimidation, Kevin Griffis, low wages, Nashville, Pamela Maraldo, Planned Parenthood Employee, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains (PPRM), Planned Parenthood staffer, Pregnancy Discrimination, reinvention plan, Suzanne Thorp, toxic environment, Union, Union Bargaining, Union Busting, whistleblower on January 4, 2019 by saynsumthn
As employees speak out, Planned Parenthood's mask begins to crack
By Carole Novielli | From Live Action News
A new phenomenon appears to be taking place at Planned Parenthood. In what was a shock to many, in 2018, political activist president Cecile Richards suddenly announced her resignation, followed by that of VP Dawn Laguens and VP of Communications, Kevin Griffis, among others. Planned Parenthood hired ER doctor Leana Wen — who has called abortion "health care" — to replace Richards, and vowed that abortion will be its focus in 2019. But at the same time, employees of the so-called "women's rights organization" are spilling long-held secrets and exposing inner workings and toxic attitudes of the organization, founded 100 years ago by eugenicist Margaret Sanger. While these revelations might come as a surprise to pro-choicers, pro-lifers know that the organization's roots have been rotten since its inception.
Lower level staffers revolt against Planned Parenthood's corporate greed
While Planned Parenthood as a corporation was busy raking in millions in excess revenue over the past several years, its staffers claim it failed to pay them a decent wage. As a result, Planned Parenthood employees began unionizing. A report from In These Times claims Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains (PPRM) employees first began organizing in 2016, and it was the sixth local affiliate to do so. "In at least two of these cases, the local employer was accused of attempting to squelch worker organizing," the media outlet reported.
But why did PPRM employees attempt to unionize?
Their key issues included wages—according to the union, the median annual wage for PPRM employees is $35,000, which is at the low end of the median range for health workers given by the Bureau of Labor Statistics—high staff turnover and prohibitively high costs of adding family members to employee health insurance."
When employees spoke out, staffers claim Planned Parenthood intimidated them.
Suzanne Thorp, who has worked for PPRM since 2013, claims PPRM revoked her ticket to a fundraiser out of fear she would encourage donors not to use their dollars for anti-union efforts. A June 2018 post published on the Facebook page of the PPRM Union Bargaining Team claims the organization called the police after Thorp showed up outside the event. The abortion corporation later denied the claim.
Suzanne Thorp – Planned Parenthood treatment for unionizing
READ: Planned Parenthood ignores safety, wants non-doctors to commit abortions
Another alleged staffer wrote about Planned Parenthood's fight against unionizing on Instagram: "Friends – today is my last day working for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains…. PPRM's management have only pushed back in order to keep us from accessing our basic employee rights…. I've given the last two years of my life to this cause that I love so much and to see my colleagues bullied like this by the agency they have worked so hard for breaks my f**king heart…"
Others joined in:
Planned Parenthood staffers on unionizing
Grim added in another tweet, "I know @CecileRichards is gone but really is this the new regime? Affiliates spending 'up to a million dollars' to block union efforts."
Employees publicly complain about shoddy treatment
In addition to low wages, one PPRM staffer took to Twitter to reveal that Planned Parenthood even looked down on employees for taking their rightfully earned work breaks:
"Solstice Fairy" added in another tweet, "Stop shouting 'SELF CARE!!!!' at us when we say we need a moment to pee or drink or eat. Taking a lunch break is not self care. It is a federally mandated right of employees working more than 6 hours in a day…."
Reviews published at Indeed.com (more not shown here) display more worker dissatisfaction:
Other review make it clear that patients are herded through like cattle, stating that "they schedule you patients every 10 minutes."
READ: Investigative Report: Planned Parenthood affiliate CEO salaries still climbing
Planned Parenthood appears to be rotting from within as staffers expose the organization's hypocrisy. The most recent example occurred when Planned Parenthood whistleblowers told the New York Times the abysmal way the organization discriminates against pregnant employees.
Prior to that report, Live Action News revealed that Planned Parenthood insiders in Nashville exposed how the corporation's leaders were prioritizing profits over care, something pro-lifers have known for years.
A brief history: Planned Parenthood's push for abortion always wins over actual health care
Prioritizing profits over care isn't new for Planned Parenthood. Years after founder Margaret Sanger died, Alan F. Guttmacher, a physician and former VP of the Eugenics Society, took the reins. Guttmacher was obsessed with population control and led the corporation to become an abortion vendor. Later, Faye Wattleton, an African American woman, was appointed president (chosen, many believe, to quell suspicion of eugenics among the Black community), who doubled down on promoting abortion. Years later, president Pamela Maraldo attempted to tone down the abortion emphasis with an effort to reinvent the corporation into a health care organization, but was ousted by pro-abortion zealots on the inside.
READ: Report: Planned Parenthood discriminated against pregnant employees
Planned Parenthood eventually appointed Cecile Richards, who had no health care experience, to supervise the surge of abortions, tax dollars, excess revenue, and CEO salaries — all while Planned Parenthood's actual health services and clients plummeted. Richards' goal was to build the abortion corporation into the largest "kick butt political organization" to reinforce Planned Parenthood's political laundering scheme. She presided over numerous scandals, accusations of fraud, the cover-up of child sexual abuse, and much more.
What is emerging today is a truer picture of Planned Parenthood as its image begins to show cracks, even in the way it treats employees and patients. It has for too long masqueraded as a health care organization while tragically ending the lives of over 320,000 preborn children each year by abortion.
This article is reprinted with permission. The original appeared here at Live Action News.
Planned Parenthood staffers arrested for: theft, embezzlement, shop lifting
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Planned Parenthood staffer charged with felony embezzlement
By Carole Novielli | (From Live Action News)
A fired Planned Parenthood staffer has been charged with felony embezzlement in Oklahoma County District Court, according to a local media outlet. Kelly Lee Smith, 38, worked at Planned Parenthood's first facility in the state to offer abortions, located in Warr Acres. A report published by Newsok.com said the abortion staffer was arrested October 11, 2017, after she allegedly used a Planned Parenthood credit card to buy lingerie, hotel rooms, amusement park attractions, and a cruise.
Kathy Lee Smith
Mugshot: Planned Parenthood staffer Kelly Lee Smith
Authorities allege that between May and August of 2017, Smith fraudulently charged over $23,000 across nine states and Mexico. According to NewsOk.com, Planned Parenthood fired Smith on August 28. The paper reported that additional unauthorized credit card charges by Smith included clothing, pet supplies, beauty products, waxing services, electronics, pedicures, home decor, child care, and fast food, according to the affidavit.
Police reported Smith embezzled an additional $2,424 in cash that was supposed to be deposited into the Planned Parenthood bank account, the paper added.
Smith is not the first Planned Parenthood staffer to be accused of theft.
Planned Parenthood staffer sentenced Buffalo News
In July of 2013, a Planned Parenthood employee who worked as the organization's accountant pled guilty to second-degree grand larceny after stealing over $100,000 from the organization. WIVP reported at the time, that between August 2012 and March 2013, 44-year-old Melissa Kwoka forged checks from Planned Parenthood of Western New York to herself and her husband, according to a criminal accusation by the Erie County District Attorney's Office.
Melissa Kowka
Planned Parenthood employee forged checks
According to the Buffalo News, Kwoka was originally sentenced to six years in jail and five years probation on the contingency that she repay $102,733 to the abortion corporation. The paper reports that, "The judge ordered her to make monthly payments for 10 years of $647.78 to Planned Parenthood to cover $77,733 of the stolen amount. The judge also ordered $208.33 monthly payments to M&T Bank, where the checks were drawn, to cover $25,000 the bank paid Planned Parenthood for failing to catch a portion of the thefts."
However, after failing to abide by the terms and pay the stolen funds back, in June of 2015, Kwoka was sentenced to three years in prison.
Melissa Kwoka sentenced
Why this thief was hired by Planned Parenthood, which receives over half a billion dollars from the taxpayer each year, is a mystery to begin with. Live Action News previously reported that Kwoka had three previous convictions for theft offenses before her employment with the abortion business. In addition, Kwoka was accused of stealing over five hundred dollars from a friend's bank account while on bail after her embezzlement conviction.
David Nova
In 2011, a Planned Parenthood executive in Virginia was jailed on charges he stole wine from a Roanoke county store. David Nova, vice president of Planned Parenthood Health Systems in Roanoke, was charged with three counts of petty larceny. According to Roanoke.com, which reported the story at the time, "The charges stem from bottles of wine Nova took through a self-checkout line at the Cave Spring Kroger. The incidents occurred on two separate dates in January, according to online court records."
Nova is known for defending Planned Parenthood after Live Action undercover investigations revealed Planned Parenthood staffers helping an actor posing as a pimp obtain abortions for minor girls. (Video below)
According to a report published by Life News, Nova claimed to have reported the incident to police after the "pimp" left his facility:
On February 4, David Nova, vice president for Planned Parenthood Health Systems Inc, told the News Virginian that 'police were notified after the man left.'
'The employees on these edited tapes in Roanoke and Charlottesville acted professionally in their interactions with the fake patient,' Nova said in a released statement. 'In both cases, they promptly reported the incidents to their supervisors.'
But FOIA'd documents obtained later by Live Action indicate that this was not true.
For his crime, Nova was ordered by a judge to serve three weekends in the Roanoke County Jail. But, according to media reports, the charges were dismissed after Nova completed his jail time. Nova's attorney called his arrest "personal" and said it has nothing to do with his job.
In 2004, Nova, then CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Blue Ridge received Planned Parenthood's "Jimmy Award," to "help advance the Vision for 2025 by rewarding bold and creative thinking."
A newsletter published by Planned Parenthood Health Systems since the incident indicates that this did not affect his standing with Planned Parenthood. In fact, Nova's LinkedIn page currently shows that he is employed as VP of Communications and Strategic Initiatives for Planned Parenthood Health Systems, Inc., although the page may not have been updated.
In 2008, a Rhode Island ABC affiliate reported that the 59-year-old CEO of a Planned Parenthood in that state had been caught shoplifting at the Warwick Mall.
Planned Parenthood staffer accused of shop lifting
Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island President and CEO Miriam Inocencio, a veteran of the organization, was caught by police after allegedly stealing an $89 Liz Claiborne blouse from the local Macy's Department Store, the report claimed.
A 990 filed by Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island in 2010 shows that the former CEO earned nearly $100,000 in salary and compensation in 2008.
Inocencio's LinkedIn page reveals that she served as President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island from 1997 to 2008. She previously worked at Planned Parenthood Federation of America's International division from 1984 to 1992.
The Planned Parenthood president pleaded out in court and agreed to reimburse the store. Inocencio told the media that she later voluntary resigned from Planned Parenthood but added that she was proud of what she accomplished during her 13 years as their director.
Planned Parenthood CEO Theft
In 2002, Inocencio, a black Cuban-American woman, indicated that she was originally hired by the abortion business because of her ethnicity.
In a piece she penned to Non-profit Quarterly, Inocencio wrote that prior to Planned Parenthood hiring her in the mid-1990's, the staff at the Rhode Island Planned Parenthood was overwhelmingly white.
"For many years the PPRI staff and board had, with few exceptions, remained overwhelmingly white and middle-class and almost exclusively English speaking," she said.
Inocencio added that "pressure from external systems […] along with other motivations resulted in the board's decision to hire a CEO of color, and this made for a relatively smooth transition to a multicultural organization."
What those "other motivations" were was not specified but as Live Action News has well documented, Planned Parenthood's founder Margaret Sanger made sure that Planned Parenthood was knee deep in eugenics. And, the organization's ties to eugenics continued far beyond their founder, as Live Action News previously documented.
Today, with the help of Planned Parenthood, abortion disproportionately affects minority Black and Hispanic communities.
In contrast to Planned Parenthood staffers who are involved in theft, former Planned Parenthood whistleblowers have exposed the abortion corporation's own trouble with numbers by accusing the tax-funded organization of Medicaid fraud. And, as Live Action News has documented, Planned Parenthood has been cited in several states for overbilling abuses and Medicaid fraud. In addition, Planned Parenthood has been cited for violating patient privacy and has been exposed for failing to report child sexual abuse.
Planned Parenthood staffers accused of selling illegal meds
Posted in Abortion Regulation, Abortion Worker Investigated, Planned Parenthood Employee, Planned Parenthood employee sells drugs, Planned Parenthood illegal activity, Planned Parenthood inspected with tags Abortion clinic, Birmingham, drugs, illegal, Medical Board, medicine, Nurse, parking lot, Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood staffer on May 16, 2014 by saynsumthn
by Life Dynamics, Inc.
In January a sign on the door of the Birmingham, Alabama Planned Parenthood said they were closed.
A statement from Planned Parenthood to the media read, "We are slowing down our services in Birmingham temporarily in order to upgrade our operations."
Now, the abortion giant claims that they suspended operations in at the Birmingham facility because of illegal activity conducted by two former staff members.
The abortion giant told MyFoxAl that the staff members were allegedly selling illegal prescription medicine in the parking lot. Planned Parenthood says they reported the activity to investigators along with the state board of nursing and board of medical examiners.
Spokesperson Nora Spencer says the group is upgrading operations and speaking with the Alabama Department of Public Health about scheduling an inspection before re-opening.
Life Dynamics Inc., a national pro-life organization located in Denton, Texas has documented illegal activity by abortion and family planning centers in their book: Lime 5.
More on Life Dynamics here http://www.lifedynamics.com
Blogger Jill Stanek uncovered more from a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood prior to these allegations becoming public.
Stanek Writes:
Planned Parenthood's lawsuit left it and doctors killing babies in Alabama open to exposure. And expose this brief does. From page 6 (paragraph breaks and underline added):
Finally, the evidence will show, contrary to plaintiffs' assertions (Doc 173 at 12), that the State has a legitimate need for additional credentialing for abortion doctors.
There are immediate reasons to question the competence and ethics of at least two of the five doctors (40%) who work for plaintiffs as well as their employees more generally. Dr. A is currently being sued for malpractice arising from his misdiagnosis of a patient at a Birmingham abortion clinic. Dr. P2 is currently being prosecuted by the federal government for Medicaid fraud.
And Planned Parenthood's Birmingham clinic was recently closed after an employee of Planned Parenthood unlawfully sold prescription drugs in the clinic's parking lot.
Saynsumthn has documented horrific conditions at other Planned Parenthood facilities most recently- one in Delaware (read here)
Saynsumthn has also documented the conditions of another Birmingham abortion clinic recently closed by the state (read here)