{"id":207517,"date":"2019-07-26T12:40:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T17:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=207517"},"modified":"2019-07-27T22:11:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T03:11:34","slug":"planned-parenthood-acting-president-pretends-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-acting-president-pretends-political\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood’s acting president pretends they’re not political. Don’t fall for it."},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Wednesday, Planned Parenthood\u2019s acting president and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson, who took over the abortion giant after Dr. Leana Wen was terminated from the organization<\/a>, penned a puff piece<\/a> in the Washington Post designed to save Planned Parenthood\u2019s image in the wake of Wen\u2019s departure.\u00a0Johnson\u2019s goal is to advance the narrative that Planned Parenthood is an embattled health care provider, forced against its will to engage in political advocacy.<\/p>\n

“… [As] I begin my tenure as acting head of Planned Parenthood, some are dismissing or mischaracterizing the organization\u2019s mission as ‘political,’ offering a false choice between advocating for women\u2019s health and offering health care,\u201d says Johnson in her op-ed. \u201cThe sexual and reproductive health care our organization provides is not ‘political’; it has been politicized \u2014 and not by us.\u201d<\/p>\n

But as usual, the new Planned Parenthood leader built her manifesto on deception.<\/p>\n

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Alexis McGill Johnson, PPFA Acting president (Image: PPFA)<\/p><\/div>\n

Planned Parenthood is deeply involved with abortion politics — and has been for years<\/b><\/p>\n

Johnson bizarrely implies that Planned Parenthood is somehow only marginally, unwillingly involved in politics. In reality, Planned Parenthood has been deeply, aggressively involved in shaping abortion policies for decades. In June, Planned Parenthood\u2019s political arm hosted a pro-abortion \u201cWe Decide\u201d event<\/a> in South Carolina that was attended by every Democrat 2020 presidential hopeful. At the event, Planned Parenthood secured pledges from many individual candidates to codify Roe v. Wade<\/em> into federal law<\/a> and expand abortion access throughout the country. Former president Cecile Richards, who had deep connections<\/a> to the Democratic Party, delivered an address<\/a> to the Democratic National Convention both in 2016, and years earlier in 2012<\/a>. Richards herself stated in 2008 that her goal was to make Planned Parenthood into “the largest kick-butt political organization<\/a>.” In the 2016 Democratic primary election, Planned Parenthood made the highly unusual move of\u00a0endorsing<\/a> a specific candidate: Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

According to a Live Action special report<\/a>, Planned Parenthood spent $30 million during the 2018 Congressional elections to help pro-abortion politicians get elected. During the October 2018 Justice Kavanaugh hearings, Planned Parenthood Action Fund tweeted a strange threat<\/a> to senators who vote for his confirmation: \u201cRoses are red, Violets are blue, Senators vote NO on #Kavanaugh, Or else we\u2019re coming for you. #NationalPoetryDay #StopKavanaugh.\u201d Planned Parenthood, which receives half a billion<\/a> tax dollars each year, had contributed financially<\/a> to every Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Former Planned Parenthood prez: They fired me for trying to make them about health care<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Big Lie: Abortion is health care<\/b><\/p>\n

According to Johnson, “Abortion, a legal medical procedure that 1 in 4 women will have in her lifetime, has been demonized and politicized, putting at risk sexual and reproductive health care for millions of people. We will fight anyone who attempts to politicize that care.”<\/p>\n

Abortion is never medically necessary<\/a>, according to medical professionals and even former abortionists. Women who have pregnancy complications<\/a>, including ectopic pregnancies, may require surgery or premature delivery, which may unfortunately cause the premature death of a baby too fragile to survive outside the womb. But this is not abortion<\/em>, as abortion is the intentional, targeted killing of a preborn baby. It is never a medically necessary part of treating any <\/i>pregnancy condition, a fact to which over one thousand medical professionals attested<\/a> in a signed declaration.<\/p>\n

Johnson\u2019s oft-repeated claim, that 1 in 4 women will have an abortion in her lifetime, is a claim based on dubious methodology<\/a> that doesn\u2019t take into account the ongoing decline in the abortion rate, reached a historic low in 2015, according to a 2018 CDC report<\/a>. In fact, just three years ago, Planned Parenthood advertised on its website<\/a> that 1 out of every 3<\/em> women would have an abortion, a statistic that earned four Pinocchios from the Washington Post<\/a>. Incredibly, in 1992, the statistic was estimated<\/a> by the Guttmacher Institute to be 1 in 2 women.<\/p>\n

Johnson’s predecessor Leana Wen told some of these same lies. Apparently the faces change but the deception doesn’t…<\/p>\n