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  • 2017-02-10 (xsd:date)
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  • Does Planned Parenthood Enforce 'Abortion Quotas'? (en)
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  • In February 2017 multiple web outlets covered anti-abortion group Live Action's claims that the Planned Parenthood organization enforces abortion quotas and distributes awards to staff members for achieving what amounts to abortion-related sales goals. The claims originated with a 7 February 2017 video clip published by Live Action, depicting an interview between the organization's Lila Rose and a woman identified as former Planned Parenthood worker Sue Thayer: Thayer's relationship to Planned Parenthood was not discussed in the video beyond a description of her as a former employee. But a Catholic World Report article reported that Thayer maintained anti-abortion views for the entirety of her 17-year employment with the Planned Parenthood organization: According to Planned Parenthood, Thayer unsuccessfully led [an] effort to prosecute the organization in Iowa in 2011, alleging Medicaid fraud with respect to the dispensing of birth control pills: Although John Jarvey, chief federal judge for southern Iowa, dismissed Thayer's whole case in 2012, a federal appeals court in 2014 upheld only a portion of his dismissal and sent the rest of the case back to district court, where Jarvey issued a new ruling rejecting some of her claims while allowing others to proceed: Like Thayer, Anderson accepted a position at Planned Parenthood despite her reservations about the clinic's operations: On 8 February 2017, Lila Rose shared a related item via Facebook (reproduced above) showing an award certificate given to a Colorado Planned Parenthood branch commending Aurora for exceeding abortion visits in early 2013 over the same period in 2012. The certificate suggests abortion visits are one metric used by Planned Parenthood to gauge clinics' efficacy in dispensing care, but what other metrics Planned Parenthood uses are unknown, and the photograph doesn't document any tangible reward given out beyond the certificate itself. Planned Parenthood's archived response to the photograph when it first circulated in July 2014 was to say: We contacted Planned Parenthood about the claims, and a spokesperson reiterated that Planned Parenthood maintains no quotas for abortions or any of the other services they provide. Another longtime employee of Planned Parenthood whom we spoke had never heard of abortion quotas throughout the duration of her tenure with the organization. (en)
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