{"id":331291,"date":"2025-05-16T16:40:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=331291"},"modified":"2025-05-16T07:17:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T12:17:57","slug":"women-coerced-forced-abortions-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/women-coerced-forced-abortions-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Women describe their disturbing coerced and forced abortions at Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Planned Parenthood <\/span>claims<\/span><\/a> to be a \u201cforce for hope\u201d in its latest annual report, but the abortion corporation, which kills<\/a> over 400,000 babies in the U.S. every year while accepting $800M in taxpayer funding, has a <\/span>history of coercing and even forcing<\/span><\/a> women into having their children killed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Women shared shocking personal stories for the campaign, <\/span>Silent No More Awareness<\/span><\/a>, alleging that Planned Parenthood not only failed to provide them with real health care, but also bullied them into having abortions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Julianne<\/b><\/p>\n

A woman from Tennessee named Julianne <\/span>wrote<\/span><\/a> that she visited Planned Parenthood at age 19 for an abortion out of desperation, after she became pregnant by a boyfriend 14 years her senior \u2014 who pressured her into having the abortion. Both Julianne and her boyfriend were using drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, and Julianne didn\u2019t think she would be able to raise a child.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood seemed to offer her a quick and easy solution to her problems:<\/span><\/p>\n

So off to Planned Parenthood I went to quickly, quietly, and easily take care of what I rationalized was only a \u2018clump of cells\u2019 at this point anyway\u2014and on taxpayer dollars, no less.\u00a0 They made it all quite convenient and at no personal cost or sacrifice to me.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I applied for state aid to pay for the procedure and even received the bonus of food stamps I didn\u2019t need in order to provide my body with nutrition for a child I was going to kill in a week. Talk about government bureaucracy at its finest.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Julianne claimed the Planned Parenthood nurse wouldn\u2019t allow her to see the ultrasound:<\/span><\/p>\n

I do not know if providing an ultrasound was common practice back then, but I do know mine was necessary in order to establish how far along I was.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

When I laid there and watched this happening, the nurse would not allow me to look at the screen.\u00a0 She did not want me to see a moving baby inside me, with a head and hands and legs and feet and a heartbeat.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Somehow, I maneuvered and managed a glimpse despite her objections.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Julianne alleged that staff didn\u2019t provide her with any counseling about all her options (including adoption), nor did they warn her about mental health risks of abortion, provide her with pregnancy resources, or give her a waiting period before the abortion. She claims that 10 minutes after talking with Planned Parenthood staff, she was lying on the procedure table. But she had changed her mind about wanting an abortion at that point:<\/span><\/p>\n

Less than 10 minutes later I was lying on the operating table, and I had completely changed my mind.\u00a0 ALL IT HAD TAKEN WAS AN ULTRASOUND TO MAKE ME REALIZE THERE WAS A BABY INSIDE ME, AND I COULDN\u2019T GO THROUGH WITH IT.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I told everyone present to STOP the procedure. \u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

They did not.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe next moment, I felt a gas mask going over my face,” she said. “I remember struggling as I understood what was happening to me.\u00a0 I awoke a few minutes later, and my first thought was, ‘I hope they didn\u2019t kill my baby.’ I cried out and asked if they had done the abortion, and of course they had. My grief was overwhelming. So was my shock, anger, and betrayal.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Julianne wrote,\u00a0<\/span>\u201cSince then, when I hear or read about the praises of Planned Parenthood and how they provide ‘healthcare’ to women, I am sickened. They offered no HEALTH for me or my baby.\u00a0 They only sought to steal life and health…. <\/span>Where was their CARE for me? Where was their CARE for my child? Where was their CARE for my desire to stop the procedure?…”<\/span><\/p>\n