{"id":161962,"date":"2017-02-07T19:50:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T00:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=161962"},"modified":"2017-02-08T13:26:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T18:26:43","slug":"killing-for-pizza-planned-parenthood-motivates-staff-to-sell-more-abortions-with-pizza-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/killing-for-pizza-planned-parenthood-motivates-staff-to-sell-more-abortions-with-pizza-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing for pizza? Planned Parenthood motivates staff to sell more abortions with pizza parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cWe would have things like pizza parties&#8230;You know, it sounds kind of crazy, but pizza is a motivator.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Live Action released its <a href=\"\/news\/former-planned-parenthood-manager-employees-rewarded-children-aborted\/\">latest video exposing Planned Parenthood\u2019s abortion-first agenda and lack of health care services for women.<\/a>\u00a0Lila Rose, president and founder, sat down with former Planned Parenthood employees to talk about how America\u2019s largest abortion corporation has abortion quotas to fill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mkxUAR3a_Jc&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]<\/p>\n<p>Sue Thayer, a former Planned Parenthood manager, revealed that staff members were required to meet abortion goals, and if the quotas were not met, immediate corrective actions would be implemented. Thayer reveals that Planned Parenthood offered workers pizza parties, paid time off, and even lunches with upper management if they met their abortion sales goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery center had a goal for how many abortions were done, so we were very goal-oriented,\u201d Thayer said. \u201cI trained my staff the way that I was trained, which was to really encourage women to choose abortion, to have it at Planned Parenthood, because that counts \u2014 you know \u2014\u00a0towards our goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The disturbing revelations show how Planned Parenthood\u00a0pressures women into abortions, and even encourages its workers to\u00a0secure\u00a0an abortion appointment\u00a0before women left their facilities. Workers were incentivized to not only sell abortions, but to ensure that facilities continually beat their sales goals.<\/p>\n<p>Here are more eye-opening quotes from Thayer, and a former nurse, Marianne Anderson:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sue Thayer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI trained my staff the way that I was trained, which was to really encourage women to choose abortion, to have it at Planned Parenthood, because that counts as, you know, towards our goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would try to get the appointment scheduled for the abortion before they left our clinic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf your center consistently hit goal and you were green all the time, you know, like three months in a row, you might be center manager of the month and get to go to Des Moines and have lunch, you know, with the upper management or something. So there were incentives built in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, it sounds kind of crazy, but pizza is a motivator. Pizza party.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Marianne Anderson:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe were told on a regular basis that, \u2018You have a quota to meet to keep this clinic open.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was drilled into our heads to answer that phone, that phone by the third ring, because after three rings it would transfer over to the manager\u2019s office and she did not like having to answer those phone calls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were constantly told, \u2018You have quotas to meet to stay open.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like I was, more like I was selling abortions sometimes than treating people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe would have things like pizza parties&#8230;You know, it sounds kind of crazy, but pizza is a motivator.\u201d On Tuesday, Live Action released its latest video exposing Planned Parenthood\u2019s abortion-first agenda and lack of health care services for women.\u00a0Lila Rose, president and founder, sat down with former Planned Parenthood employees to talk about how America\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":162004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15,9459],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Killing for pizza? 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