{"id":289889,"date":"2023-04-27T10:36:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T15:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=289889"},"modified":"2023-04-26T11:55:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T16:55:51","slug":"two-dozen-lawsuits-former-planned-parenthood-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/two-dozen-lawsuits-former-planned-parenthood-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"More than two dozen lawsuits have been filed by former Planned Parenthood staff alleging racism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Planned Parenthood continues to face allegations of systemic racism as more former staffers file lawsuits and testify to poor treatment while working for the nation’s number one abortion corporation.<\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported<\/a> that at least two dozen<\/em> racial discrimination lawsuits have been filed against various Planned Parenthood affiliates, with staffers telling the outlet that racism is an inherent part of the company’s culture. One was an affiliate COO<\/a>. Another alleged a hostile work environment<\/a> where Black employees were treated “with disdain.” Another woman, a Black nurse practitioner, says her manager threw a patient’s urine sample at her desk, allowing urine to splash all over her desk. Eventually, she was laid off \u2014 in retaliation, she claims, for filing complaints of racial discrimination \u2014 in 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat if this is someone else\u2019s dream job and they look like me?\u201d the woman, Michelle Fisher, said. \u201cI want other people to be able to go in there and not be treated like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

She has since filed a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood of Northern, Central and Southern New Jersey, which is still ongoing. \u201cIf we can\u2019t count on Planned Parenthood to respect Black employees, how can we count on them to care for people of color as patients?\u201d asked Valerie Shore, Fisher’s attorney.<\/p>\n

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

Planned Parenthood has a long, well-documented\u00a0history of racism<\/a>, which dates back to its very founding. Though the abortion corporation has since tried to disaffiliate itself from founder Margaret Sanger, her legacy of racism and eugenics still runs through the organization. Many men whom Sanger hired to serve on her board were known eugenicists \u2014 some with ties to the Ku Klux Klan. She also organized experimental birth control testing on Puerto Rican women without their knowledge or consent, and supported the Supreme Court’s Buck v. Bell<\/em> decision, which allowed anyone deemed “unfit” to be sterilized without their consent.<\/p>\n

Today, hundreds of employees continue to allege a culture of racism<\/a> and white supremacy exists at Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n