{"id":1308,"date":"2019-07-22T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:01:12","slug":"why-planned-parenthood-fired-their-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1308","title":{"rendered":"Why Planned Parenthood fired their President"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Leana<\/a><\/p>\n

Turns out that while she is very pro-abortion that's not enough. She actually thought PP should do more healthcare and less politics. So she had to go.<\/p>\n

This is from NRO via Yahoo! Good article. The author, Alexandra Desanctis, follows the issue closely. The whole article is 16 paragraphs.<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood has long sought to downplay its commitment to abortion, calling itself a health-care organization and spreading the lie that abortion is only 3 percent of its business, even as its clinics perform between one-third and half of all abortions in the U.S. annually. The group\u2019s leadership evidently believes this political moment demands more aggressive advocacy.<\/a><\/p>\n

And Wen wasn\u2019t up to the task. Considering her record thus far, she was hired for the \u201cM.D.\u201d beside her name, and little else. … She consistently inserted the phrase \u201cas a doctor\u201d into her messaging to give the organization the gloss of medical legitimacy, and she never sounded like the polished, sure-footed political advocate Richards had.<\/p>\n

Plenty of turmoil, meanwhile, was taking place behind the scenes. \u201cWen had tried to refocus the organization\u2019s mission and image as a health provider offering a wide array of services, including abortions,\u201d sources told the Washington Post<\/em><\/a> this week. \u201cThose close to Wen said she was opposed by some board members and others who wanted to emphasize the organization\u2019s commitment to abortion rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

In January, Wen told BuzzFeed News<\/em><\/a> she wanted to restructure the organization\u2019s goals, noting that people aren\u2019t going to Planned Parenthood to make a political statement. \u201cWhat we will always be here to do is provide abortion access as part of the full spectrum of reproductive health care,\u201d Wen said. \u201cBut we also recognize that for so many of our patients we are their only source of health care.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It didn\u2019t work. In February, top political staffers left Planned Parenthood<\/a>, reportedly amid ongoing conflict over Wen\u2019s management style. Now that tension seems to have boiled over. Six sources told BuzzFeed<\/em><\/a> this week that \u201csignificant management issues [were] part of the board\u2019s decision to oust Wen,\u201d and one \u201csaid her removal was accelerated by the intensifying battle over abortion rights, saying that she was not the right leader in this climate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most revealing detail from Buzzfeed<\/em>\u2019s report? Two sources said Wen angered staffers by refusing to use \u201ctrans-inclusive\u201d language, \u201cfor example saying \u2018people\u2019 instead of \u2018women\u2019 and telling staff that she believed talking about transgender issues would \u2018isolate people in the Midwest.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wen\u2019s firing suggests that, instead of claiming to be just a normal health-care organization, Planned Parenthood intends to capitalize on its status as an influential left-wing interest group. To do that, it must become a purveyor of the entire progressive agenda, to the point of embracing the \u201cintersectional\u201d language promoted by transgender activists. So the mild-mannered Wen had to go.<\/p>\n

Pro-lifers have long known what Planned Parenthood itself appears to be admitting: The group\u2019s ultimate goal is to wield its political influence within the progressive movement to continue profiting from abortion.<\/p>\n

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Turns out that while she is very pro-abortion that's not enough. She actually thought PP should do more healthcare and less politics. So she had to go. This is from NRO via Yahoo! Good article. The author, Alexandra Desanctis, follows the issue closely. The whole article is 16 paragraphs. Planned Parenthood has long sought to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7622,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/7622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}