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CV NEWS FEED // As Planned Parenthood faces growing scrutiny over patient safety and service quality, a surge of political advertising seeks to shield the organization while targeting pro-life lawmakers.
The ads, backed by Reproductive Rights for All (formerly NARAL), attempt to portray legislative efforts to defund abortion providers as attacks on women’s health care, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America reported.
“These ads peddle false claims about defunding Big Abortion chains like Planned Parenthood,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. “They want the viewer to believe defunding abortion businesses would cut benefits to women. Nothing is further than the truth.”
Dannenfelser emphasized that ongoing pro-life efforts to shift taxpayer funding do not reduce women’s health benefits but instead aim to redirect resources away from abortion providers and toward federally qualified community health centers, which she noted “outnumber Planned Parenthood by 15 to 1.”
The political spin comes as new revelations spotlight Planned Parenthood’s declining health care services and troubling operational practices. A recent New York Times exposé detailed unsanitary and negligent conditions, including a facility in Nebraska where a sewage leak lasted several days, making women vomit from the stench. Other documented incidents include the implantation of an IUD in a woman who was unknowingly pregnant — resulting in a stillbirth — in Nebraska and the use of moldy medical equipment in Missouri.
“But if the unsanitary conditions revealed by the New York Times aren’t enough, consider this: while Planned Parenthood’s government money has gone up, their contraceptive and cancer screening services have plummeted,” Dannenfelser added. “The services that have gone up are abortion, gender transitions and political campaigns to defeat Donald Trump and Republicans.”
Katie Glenn Danel, director of legal affairs and policy counsel at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, criticized Planned Parenthood’s current trajectory.
“Planned Parenthood is an abortion business, not a health care provider,” she said.
Danel pointed to data showing a 43% increase in taxpayer funding since 2010, while services such as cancer screenings, breast exams, and pap smears have dropped by more than 70%.
“Women deserve quality, comprehensive care,” Danel continued, later adding, “Americans will no longer subsidize the industry that endangers women, kills unborn children and spends millions to elect woke politicians.”
