{"id":324671,"date":"2025-01-17T08:52:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=324671"},"modified":"2025-01-17T06:38:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:38:36","slug":"two-midwest-planned-parenthood-executives-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/two-midwest-planned-parenthood-executives-step-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Two controversial Midwest Planned Parenthood executives step down"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two Planned Parenthood executives in the Illinois\/Missouri region have announced their resignations within a week of each other. Both resignations come as a new CEO steps into the leadership of Midwestern affiliate Planned Parenthood Great Rivers \u2014 “an affiliate with locations in the cities of St. Louis<\/a>, Springfield, and Rolla in Missouri, as well as in Fairview Heights, Illinois,” as Live Action News recently reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 12: Dr. Colleen McNicholas, the Chief Medical Officer of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri speaks during a hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on July 12, 2022 in Washington, DC… (Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

Dr. Colleen McNicholas, chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood Great Rivers (formerly Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri) announced her resignation from the abortion corporation this week. She had held the position since 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decision to leave these health centers might be one of the hardest I have yet to encounter in my career,\u201d McNicholas posted Monday on both X<\/u><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Instagram<\/a>. \u201cToday, I’m leaning on words I share with patients all the time. … Decisions can be hard and sad and right all at the same time.\u201d To speak these words to a woman seeking to kill her own child through abortion is misleading; it is never “right” to directly and intentionally kill an innocent human being. And according to pro-abortion activists, abortion is largely not a “hard” or “sad” decision \u2014 instead, it is now heralded<\/a> as “freedom<\/a>” and “democracy<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Outside of her work at Planned Parenthood aborting babies, McNicholas did deliver children. But in 2013, one of those deliveries led to a lawsuit. Christine F., one of McNicholas’ patients, was struggling to deliver her son Hudson. After four hours, McNicholas made two unsuccessful attempts to do a vacuum-assisted vaginal delivery. After allowing Christine to push again, McNicholas finally brought her for an emergency C-section. During the transfer, Christine developed a fever and upon delivery, she became limp, had no pulse, and was not breathing or responsive. It was 23 minutes before her heart started again, leaving her with a severe brain injury. Christine filed a lawsuit and the case was settled.<\/p>\n

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