{"id":233409,"date":"2020-10-27T17:38:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T22:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=233409"},"modified":"2020-10-26T20:20:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T01:20:20","slug":"planned-parenthood-coercing-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-coercing-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood’s pattern of coercing women into abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to numerous testimonies, Planned Parenthood has a long history of coercing women into abortion. Planned Parenthood was able to commit a record 345,672 abortions<\/a> in 2018, despite an overall national decline. Because research has determined<\/a> that a large percentage of women are pressured into abortions, we can reasonably assume that some of Planned Parenthood’s abortions were coerced in some way\u00a0\u2014 either through\u00a0subtle pressure or by ignoring the literal cries of women in their facilities. The abortion corporation now holds 40% of the abortion market, despite being caught on camera lying to women.<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood’s Lies<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a multi-state undercover investigation<\/a> into Planned Parenthood, Live Action found that the abortion corporation<\/a> uses fabricated medical information to coerce women into abortion. During that investigation, a Planned Parenthood in Wisconsin was caught lying about fetal development, and telling a patient that the heart doesn’t begin to beat until 17 or 18 weeks. (In reality, the heart begins beating just three weeks after conception<\/a>.) They also told the patient her baby was not a baby until at least seven months or at birth, and urged her not to wait for an abortion to save money. Women who have undergone abortions at Planned Parenthood have shared similar stories.<\/p>\n

Dr. Brent Boles detailed<\/a>\u00a0the story<\/a> of a patient who visited Planned Parenthood in Knoxville, Tennessee. She was seven weeks pregnant, and asked if there was a heartbeat. Staff told her, “There is cardiac activity, but it’s too early to call it a heartbeat.” Boles didn’t mince his words on this blatant lie. “If the heart’s activity is visible, there is a heartbeat,” he said. “There is no medical literature that says otherwise.”<\/p>\n

The reason Planned Parenthood staff alters the terms they used to describe a heartbeat, said Boles, is because they know that after hearing the heartbeat, women are less likely to go through with an abortion. In addition, Boles’ patient was pregnant with twins<\/em>, which the sonographer failed to mention because, as Boles explained, a woman who learns she is having twins might have second thoughts about abortion because of the presence of two<\/em> babies. The presence of twins obliterates the idea that a mere “pregnancy” is ended in an abortion, and humanizes the children in the womb. Boles’ patient had taken the abortion pill, but thankfully, it failed, and a few weeks later, she and her babies were both doing well.<\/p>\n