Planned Parenthood Endangers Women's Health

Planned Parenthood claims to "provide women with access to comprehensive health care." In fact, Planned Parenthood's version of health care consistently puts women's health at risk.

Apparently, Planned Parenthood is much more concerned about spreading their social philosophy than they are about women's health. Then Planned Parenthood makes money from the failures of their social philosophy in the real world.

What is Planned Parenthood's social philosophy? They maintain that any form of sexual activity at any age with anyone (or any thing -- animate or inanimate) is commendable as long as it is "consensual" and "responsible".

Might there be problems with achieving true consent when an authority figure has sex with a young child? Not a problem! Just make sure that child has been instructed with Planned Parenthood's "comprehensive sex education". Of course, don't worry about the child being inclined to accept such sexual activity as "normal" because of the graphic material they were exposed to during "comprehensive sex education" to break down their "sexual inhibitions" and destroy their innocence! Herein lies a very basic violation of women's (and men's) health -- destroying children's natural development of sexual health. Healthy sexual development empowers young people to preserve sexual activity for marriage and remain faithful to their partner in marriage.

What does Planned Parenthood mean by "responsible"? For them, responsibility means "always use a condom." If any problem occurs, just use the morning-after pill to resolve the problem. Of course, don't worry about the 85% reliability level of both the condom and the morning-after pill, even under ideal conditions! Herein lies another violation of women's (and men's) health -- convincing them that the condom can protect them from sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy when it is unreliable in providing such "protection".

Since condom users are really just playing Russian roulette, both sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy are almost certain to eventually occur. Then Planned Parenthood will come to the rescue by treating sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and committing abortion. Does Planned Parenthood care that some STDs will cause sterility and some STDs are incurable? Do they care that abortion has serious adverse consequences for physical, psychological, and spiritual health? Of course not! They actually deny that any of these abortion consequences even exist!

Now let's leave the fantasy world of Planned Parenthood and return to the real world.

Planned Parenthood regards the many dangers they create for women's (and men's) health as nothing more than collateral damage. What is some of this collateral damage? Start with the negative health consequences of contraception such as high blood pressure, blood clots, heart attacks, migraine headaches, and infertility. Then add the consequences of abortion that may include: a perforated uterus, complications in future pregnancies, infertility, pelvic inflammatory disease, and even death.

Beyond that, Planned Parenthood does not even follow standard medical practices to protect women's health. They offer RU-486 to perform chemical abortion, but do not follow the FDA guidelines that include three doctor visits. After another death of one of their patients, they now say they will follow the FDA provision for oral use of the abortion drug, but they are still willing to ignore other provisions of the FDA protocol.

Planned Parenthood has now opened "express" offices where they do not require medical exams before providing contraceptives -- just fill out a simple questionnaire. What about women with medical conditions that make use of contraceptives even more dangerous? Apparently, those women will just become more collateral damage in Planned Parenthood's push for easy access to contraceptives for everyone, especially teenagers on their way home from school.

Planned Parenthood also considers the morning-after pill to be so safe for anyone that they want it available over-the-counter without any contact with a doctor. They already make it available that way at their own offices by using a standing order from a physician that allows a prescription to be written without any contact with the doctor. How can a drug that is four times the dosage of regular contraceptives be considered as safe as an aspirin? Well, just assume one-time use, and don't even test the health impact on teenagers who might use it. Does that sound like thorough testing to you?

Whenever medical standards or abortion safety become an issue, Planned Parenthood is there to file a lawsuit trying to prevent any reasonable safety measures from taking effect. Take Missouri as an revealing example.

A commentary has been located written by a Planned Parenthood worker that helps confirm the lack of concern Planned Parenthood has for women's health:

Planned Parenthood blogger talks about working at PP's facilities

Internet researcher Dawn Eden recently called our attention to a blog written by a Planned Parenthood worker in California. Over the course of the last six months, we have had conversations with several pro-lifers who have talked with people at Planned Parenthood, particularly at PP express clinics. The overriding impression they have received from PP people is that the express clinics are being setup as a means of moving more people through Planned Parenthood's doors. The need to increase customer numbers and to move more products faster is a major reason for these express clinics. Since the blog that Dawn pointed us to confirms what we have already heard, we bring it to you so you can get a glimpse of PP from someone on the inside. Someone so frustrated that he posted this for the world to see (we present this without any corrections for grammar, punctuation, etc. This is how it appears on the internet):

so i'm totally hating my job at planned parenthood. the philosophy behind the mission of planned parenthood is totally incongruent with the way medicine is actually practiced at the affliates i've worked for thus far. the way the clinics are run is totally not based on patient care. they seem more based upon volume of patients seen on a daily basis.

the expectation is to see 40 patients in an eight hour shift. meaning at most i can give a patient 10 minutes of my time. that truly is unreal. i've learned to do the bare minimum for my patients, practicing shortcuts and excluding some extra care i would normally like to give my patients. this is not the type of care i really want to give to my patients but it essentially is the type of care planned parenthood has molded me into giving; not only by the managers who are fairly concerned about the number of patients seen per day as opposed providing excellent care, but also by patients who demand to be seen right then right there right away without any concern for the quality of care that is being taken away from other patients simply because i now have to cut time out of taking care of one patient to see more patients at any given time.

i am truly disheartened by the direction medicine and medical care has gone. had i known that this was gonna be the type of medicine i was gonna practice i would have chosen a job in research where caring about people doesn't really matter. but i do care, and it sux caring just isn't enough anymore. and caring really doesn't really make much of a difference in a world where all that matters is everybody elses time is more precious than anybody else's.

and it's funny because i thought i was just one of the few that felt this way about the way medicine is practiced at planned parenthood but in reality alot of clinicians at the riverside/san diego affliate and the orange/san bernardino affliate feel the same way. we are bullied by management into practicing fast paced bare minimal medicine. and this i learn to be truer and truer every moment i work for planned parenthood, as i talk to more and more of my colleagues. truly disheartening. i truly relish the moments where i can actually spend time with my patients and provide some counselling and education, moments when i feel i've made a difference. moments that are few and far between. truly disheartening but yet i hope that i at least make a little bit of difference in a few of the patients i am priveleged to take care of.