{"id":107857,"date":"2025-02-26T19:25:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T01:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=107857"},"modified":"2025-02-26T19:25:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T01:25:47","slug":"107857","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=107857","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

NYT Obliterates the Myth That Planned Parenthood Is About Anything Other than Abortion<\/a><\/p>\n

Once in a while, the mainstream media does something useful \u2014\u00a0even if it\u2019s just saying the quiet part out loud.<\/p>\n

I came across a\u00a0New York Times piece<\/a>\u00a0from earlier this month that makes some startling revelations about one of the left\u2019s biggest sacred cows: Planned Parenthood. Reporter Katie Benner begins her piece by telling the story of a woman who went to Planned Parenthood for an abortion.<\/p>\n

The single mother still experienced bleeding and cramps after the procedure, so she returned to Planned Parenthood, where clinicians told her that she was fine and that nothing was wrong. She later delivered a stillborn baby at 12 weeks. It\u2019s a heartbreaking account, but it\u2019s also a worthwhile springboard to Planned Parenthood\u2019s failures.<\/p>\n

Benner reports:<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood is synonymous with the fight to preserve abortion rights. But it is also the health care provider of last resort to millions of the poorest Americans. Its clinics offer cancer screenings, birth control, annual gynecological exams, and prenatal care, regardless of whether patients can afford to pay. The organization is unique in its reach, one of the few health care providers with a presence in all 50 states.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

But a New York Times review of clinic documents and legal filings, as well as interviews with more than 50 current and former Planned Parenthood executives, consultants, and medical staff members, found that some clinics are so short of cash that care has suffered. Many operate with aging equipment and poorly trained staff, as turnover has increased because of rock-bottom salaries. Patient counts have shrunk from a high of five million and 900 clinics in the 1990s to 2.1 million patients and 600 clinics today.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Planned Parenthood has massively fundraised off the\u00a0Dobbs\u00a0decision in 2022, to the tune of nearly $500 million that year alone. However, the organization\u2019s bylaws require that the vast majority of that money go toward lobbying for baby-killing. Thus, the functions of Planned Parenthood that genuinely help people go underfunded or totally unfunded.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Benner points out that much of the funding for healthcare at Planned Parenthood clinics comes from Medicaid, and that varies from state to state. To be fair, the disjointed nature of state funding hurts the healthcare side of the organization.<\/p>\n

However, another one of the left\u2019s sacred cows is at odds with this part of Planned Parenthood\u2019s mission. Obamacare is giving poor women more options for healthcare, which means that fewer of them go to these clinics for procedures other than abortion.<\/p>\n

Clinics are running out of money for healthcare options, so they\u2019re running out of supplies, failing to properly keep up facilities, and laying off staff. But can you guess which aspect of Planned Parenthood thrives? You guessed it: abortion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are bright spots, especially in areas of the country that support abortion rights,\u201d Benner reports. It\u2019s tremendously sad to see the phrases \u201cbright spots\u201d and \u201cabortion rights\u201d in the same sentence.<\/p>\n

She continues:<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood in Illinois recently opened an 11,200 square foot, state-of-the-art facility in Carbondale, a few hours drive from the borders of Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Missouri, which have banned or severely restricted abortion. The affiliate boosted salaries for staff and improved benefit packages as it prepared to welcome women from nearby states who were seeking abortions.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

An affiliate in Ohio made substantial upgrades to an abortion clinic, and clinics in Southern New England have kept wait times low.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In conservative media, we often use the clickbait phrase \u201csaying the quiet part out loud\u201d in headlines. In this case, the New York Times did just that.<\/p>\n

In lamenting Planned Parenthood\u2019s trouble with healthcare funding, Benner reveals that the organization is keeping the main thing the main thing and focusing on abortion. That has always been Planned Parenthood\u2019s primary mission and always will be \u2014 regardless of how hard the left tries to push the myth that Planned Parenthood is all about healthcare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NYT Obliterates the Myth That Planned Parenthood Is About Anything Other than Abortion Once in a while, the mainstream media does something useful \u2014\u00a0even if it\u2019s just saying the quiet part out loud. I came across a\u00a0New York Times piece\u00a0from earlier this month that makes some startling revelations about one of the left\u2019s biggest sacred … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-health-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107858,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107857\/revisions\/107858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}