In Firing Its President, Planned Parenthood Revealed Its True Priorities
25th July 2019
n a tweet, Wen stated that the board ended her employment due to “philosophical differences over the direction and future of Planned Parenthood.” She elaborated further in a message to her former colleagues. She had joined Planned Parenthood “to run a national health care organization and to advocate for the broad range of public health policies that affect our patients’ health,” including abortion. However, she wrote, for the board, “the priority of Planned Parenthood moving forward is to double down on abortion rights advocacy.”
Margaret Sanger’s original intent, in founding Planned Parenthood, was to reduce the number of babies from ‘inferior stock’, like black people.