Planned Parenthood in Legal Fight
Two Los Angeles Superior Court judges have allowed Pro-Family Law Center of Southern California to proceed with lawsuits against Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles (PPLA).
In the matter of Jones v. Planned Parenthood, the Honorable Paul Gutman ruled that a PPLA ex-employee may proceed on claims that PPLA engages in unfair business practices, including overcharging the state for services and goods and for violating various labor laws.
In a second case brought by a former PPLA vice-president, the Honorable Ronald Sohigian allowed the plaintiff to continue his claims that PPLA terminated him for bringing up issues relating to “grossly overcharging the government for prescription drugs, using PPLA grants/donations for employee purchases at Victoria’s Secret, and for complaining of racism, anti-religious comments and other discriminatory behavior at Planned Parenthood (PP).” A PPLA internal email, which they wished suppressed, among other PPLA documents, read: “… a very serious matter has reared its ugly head. As you are probably aware, PPLA has been marking up the OCs and the pills dispensed by a hefty markup over cost. This is proscribed by DHS regulations where the prevailing rule is that medicines should be dispensed at cost with a recovery of the dispensing fee (which of course is minimal as compared to normal retail markup). Please let me be clear about this issue. We purchase meds at $1 or $2 and sell them for $12 $18 $48. […] The impact is over $2 million bottom line, and approximately $4 million in revenues over the course of a typical 12 months.”
According to a Planned Parenthood official: “Today DHS came into our affiliate and asked for invoices for our oral contraceptive purchases stating that we were required to charge the state only what we paid for the product. […] I am e-mailing you all this because the DHS auditor told our CFO that they were going to conduct these audits on all affiliates in the state. With reimbursement rates far below the cost of providing services, this could kill many of us.” [emphasis added]
See the Source: “Pro-Family Law Center Wins Two Critical Rulings Against Planned Parenthood — Results in Two Separate Suits Moving Forward on Multi-Million Dollar Claims, “ 2 August 2005, Christian Communications Network.
Abortion Profiling
“Planned Parenthood is definitely targeting Mexicans,” said Ismael Rodriquez, project director of Madonna House, a Red Bank, New Jersey, shelter for pregnant women and their children. “They reach out with ‘safe sex’ slogans, ‘Protect yourself, use condoms, get on the birth control pill because you don’t want to get pregnant because you came to this country to work.’”
We would add that, in addition to targeting Hispanic women for contraception and sterilization, Planned Parenthood also does a thriving abortion business among Hispanics, Hispanics make up 13% of the U.S. population but, according to a recent report from the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI), they account for a full one-fifth of all abortions performed in America in 2002.
The figures for America’s other large minority, who make up 12% of the population, are even more sobering. Black women had 32% — nearly one-third — of all abortions in America in 2002. This means that their abortion rate was nearly three times higher than the rate for the general population.
Why are black women, in AGI’s words, “more likely to resolve an unintended pregnancy through abortion?” The think tank of the abortion movement doesn’t say, but it clearly has something to do with the large number of abortion clinics that dot minority neighborhoods, not to mention the targeted advertising in black and Hispanic publications. And you thought racial profiling was frowned upon.
See the source: John Burger, “Heading North: Can Hispanic Immigration Restore America’s Christian Culture?” Crisis Magazine, July/August 2005, p. 35. For the Alan Guttmacher Institute data, see: www.agi-usa.org/presentations/ab_slides.html
Euthanasia Moves Closer in Australia
Australia is moving closer to euthanasia, but not without a fight from pro-lifers.
A few months ago, Maria Korp was strangled and left in the trunk of a car for five days causing severe brain damage resulting in the need for her to be put on life support, which was removed in late July. Although Mrs. Korp’s legal guardian claimed that she died peacefully and that her death was “because of her injuries,” Margaret Tighe of Right to Life Australia stated: “I acknowledge that Mrs. Korp was… unlikely to recover from her injuries, but there is no doubt a decision was made…to deliberately end her life. We are maintaining that what her assailant was unable to complete has now been completed by people in authority.”
See the source: “Woman at centre of Australian euthanasia row dies,” 5 August 2005 http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticleSearch.aspx?storyID=3735+05-Aug-2005+RTRS&srch=Maria+Korp
