(LifeSiteNews) — A Planned Parenthood whistleblower, who now is a Hispanic pro-life leader, outlined the horrific corruption, coercion, and intimidation she witnessed while working for the United States’ largest abortion provider.
In an interview Tuesday with ACI Prensa (ACI), Mayra Rodriguez outlined the corruption and callousness she witnessed during her 17-year tenure at Planned Parenthood, including the falsification of abortion records, serious complications from abortions, and threats over her immigration status when she tried to speak out.
Rodriguez told ACI that in one instance she witnessed a Planned Parenthood doctor accidently leaving the head of a baby inside the womb of a mother undergoing a dismemberment abortion, and that he only realized the mistake after placing an intrauterine contraceptive device inside the woman.
Instead of fixing or addressing his error, the doctor talked about “the head of [the] 14-week-old baby as if it was garbage, as if it were gauze or any instrument he was using,” and proceeded by ignoring the problem and falsifying the official records to hide his reckless blunder.
Rodriguez, a Mexican national who ran three separate abortion clinics during her lengthy career, and was even named Employee of the Year by Planned Parenthood as recently as 2016, told her supervisor she was going to report the Planned Parenthood doctor for falsifying the record.
Instead of taking action against the doctor, Planned Parenthood baselessly accused Rodriguez of possessing narcotics, and threatened to call the authorities while informing her she would likely be deported. The company used the unsubstantiated claims as their justification for firing Rodriguez, ultimately leading her to win 3 million dollars in a wrongful termination lawsuit.
“[N]o more, I’m not going with this anymore,” she recalled saying to her supervisor, telling ACI that Planned Parenthood “did not want to document [the doctor’s callousness], and falsified the record.”
“What followed was that they fired me,” she recounted.
UPDATE 10/29/2021:
Joe Biden claims Pope Francis said he should continue receiving Holy Communion, despite the president's radical, anti-Catholic support for abortion. Biden asserted that the pontiff “was happy I’m a good Catholic,” and that the president should “keep receiving Communion.”
Please SIGN this urgent petition to Pope Francis urging him to clarify what he told Biden at his private audience in Rome. Biden should be facing formal excommunication because of his public and obstinate promotion of abortion, but instead we have the perverse situation in which he claims to have the blessing of the pope to sacrilegiously receive Our Lord in the Holy Eucharist. Pope Francis must clarify what exactly was said in order to avoid scandal and being complicit in such grave sin. If Joe Biden wishes to return to communion with the Church he must immediately and publicly stop and repent from his active support of the culture of death.
To ensure that this petition reaches Pope Francis, it will also be CC'ed to the Papal Nuncio of the United States, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, as well as to the Chairman of the Pro-Life Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Joseph Naumann.
Indeed, Joe Biden recently proposed a budget which would eliminate the Hyde Amendment, potentially allowing billions of taxpayer dollars to go to the funding of abortion domestically.
So, it is now an indisputable fact that Joe Biden, himself, is forcing abortion on the American public as well as around the world (e.g., Biden's executive order abolishing the Mexico City Policy).
However, since we know that the Church prioritizes abortion as the "pre-eminent" moral issue, and also how the pope has recently reiterated the teaching that abortion is "homicide," we ask the Pope to ensure that Biden's scandalous claim be clarified and his support for abortion be condemned.
This is the prime opportunity for the pope to make it crystal clear to Biden: Promoting abortion is absolutely and utterly incompatible with being in communion with the Church, and that those politicians who publicly and obstinately support abortion effectively put themselves outside communion with the Church, but also merit formal excommunication.
Joe Biden's active and concentrated promotion of abortion since he took office only 9 months ago is a grave scandal to the faithful of the United States, and to Catholics everywhere.
But, perhaps even more scandalous is the USCCB's decision not to directly and publicly address how Biden's radical, public promotion of abortion affects his standing in the Church.
The silence from our American shepherds is deafening.
Therefore, Pope Francis must now intervene to protect both the Holy Eucharist and our preborn brothers and sisters from death, to protect authentic Church teaching from deceitful "Catholics" like Joe Biden, and to protect the faithful from the grievous scandal caused by Biden's claims, action and the intolerable dithering and "dialoging" engaged in by the USCCB.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
'Biden will meet with Pope Francis to discuss ‘human dignity,’ but abortion left off agenda'
'Biden restores foreign aid to abortion by repealing Mexico City Policy'
'Removing the Hyde Amendment in Biden’s proposed budget will set a precedent'
ORIGINAL PETITION:
Joe Biden is scheduled to meet Pope Francis in Rome in a rapidly approaching audience on October 29th.
Please SIGN this urgent petition to Pope Francis urging him to tell Biden that he will face formal excommunication because of his public and obstinate promotion of abortion, and that if he wishes to return to communion with the Church he must immediately and publicly stop and repent from his active support of the culture of death.
To ensure that this petition reaches Pope Francis, it will also be CC'ed to the Papal Nuncio of the United States, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, as well as to the Chairman of the Pro-Life Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Joseph Naumann.
Indeed, Joe Biden recently proposed a budget which would eliminate the Hyde Amendment, potentially allowing billions of taxpayer dollars to go to the funding of abortion domestically.
So, it is now an indisputable fact that Joe Biden, himself, is forcing abortion on the American public as well as around the world (e.g., Biden's executive order abolishing the Mexico City Policy).
But, reports suggest that the pope and Biden are only supposed to speak about COVID and climate change...
However, since we know that the Church prioritizes abortion as the "pre-eminent" moral issue, and also how the pope has recently reiterated the teaching that abortion is "homicide," we ask the Pope to ensure that Biden's scandalous support of abortion become the central focus of their meeting.
This is the prime opportunity for the pope to make it crystal clear to Biden: Promoting abortion is absolutely and utterly incompatible with being in communion with the Church, and that those politicians who publicly and obstinately support abortion effectively put themselves outside communion with the Church, but also merit formal excommunication.
Joe Biden's active and concentrated promotion of abortion since he took office only 9 months ago is a grave scandal to the faithful of the United States, and to Catholics everywhere.
But, perhaps even more scandalous is the USCCB's decision not to directly and publicly address how Biden's radical, public promotion of abortion affects his standing in the Church.
The silence from our American shepherds is deafening.
Therefore, Pope Francis must now intervene to protect our preborn brothers and sisters from death, to protect authentic Church teaching from deceitful "Catholics" like Joe Biden, and to protect the faithful from the grievous scandal caused by Biden's action and the intolerable dithering and "dialoging" engaged in by the USCCB.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
'Biden will meet with Pope Francis to discuss ‘human dignity,’ but abortion left off agenda' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/biden-will-meet-with-pope-francis-to-discuss-human-dignity-abortion-left-off-agenda/
'Biden restores foreign aid to abortion by repealing Mexico City Policy' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/biden-restores-foreign-aid-to-abortion-with-repeal-of-mexico-city-policy/
'Removing the Hyde Amendment in Biden’s proposed budget will set a precedent' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/removing-the-hyde-amendment-in-bidens-proposed-budget-will-set-a-precedent/
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After her termination, Rodriguez realized how blind she had been to the reality of abortion, and quickly became a staunch pro-life activist for the Hispanic community.
“[A]bortion does not guarantee absolutely anything. No, it leaves (women) destroyed for life, and with scars on the uterus. And perhaps they do not lose their lives, but they do lose many more things, such as peace, emotional and mental health. Psychologically they are undone,” she lamented. “That is not something that the pro-life movement invented or that some psychologists invent, it is the reality of women who have aborted and who today are sorry.”
Rodriguez went on to detail that she was initially weary of even taking a job with Planned Parenthood, but it was the only job she could find that would allow her to work without a work visa, as she only had a tourist visa at the time.
The original clinic she worked at did not perform abortions, but Planned Parenthood moved her to a facility that did, telling her they could “not guarantee that there will be work for you” if she did not agree to the transfer.
Immediately upon her transfer, she noticed that abortion was all the company cared about, and falsifying records to ensure the reality of the practice never surfaced was commonplace.
“I began to see abortionists falsifying the records of what was happening in the room,” she divulged in her interview.
“I began to see that it was a business,” she said, and that “abortion was what mattered to them and abortion was their priority.”
Planned Parenthood is currently the largest abortion provider in America, committing 354,871 abortions per year, totaling roughly 40 percent of all abortions in the nation.
“[W]e see all these women who said, ‘My life was going to be better, I did want it [the baby] but my life was going to be better.’ And at the end of the day they realize that their life is not better, and they regret having done it,” she said.
Rodriguez is hopeful that as more people wake up to the evils of abortion that have been downplayed by the likes of Planned Parenthood, Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, will one day be overturned.
Despite the prevailing narrative alleging that abortion is an integral part of women’s liberty, especially for women in racial minority groups, Rodriguez said abortion is extremely damaging to all women, but even more damaging for the minority women who seem to be the targets of the abortion industry.
“[Abortion] has never been good for Hispanic women,” she stated. “Once you give women a true option, they will choose not to have an abortion.”
The abortion industry has a disturbing history with deep-seated links to eugenics. Planned Parenthood in particular was founded by a known eugenicist named Margaret Sanger, who openly stated the goal of Planned Parenthood was to reduce the black population.
According to the Johnston Archive, despite the black and Hispanic populations being only 29 percent of the total population in America, they accounted for a 57 percent of all abortions in 2017.
In line with Sanger’s goal, 490,000 black and Hispanic children were aborted in 2017 alone, with previous years in the early 1990s boasting numbers exceeding 700,000.
Last year, a group of 100 black leaders penned a letter demanding Planned Parenthood repent of its “systemic racism.”
“Planned Parenthood’s surgical facilities target minority communities for abortion. In fact, 79 percent of Planned Parenthood’s surgical abortion facilities are located in or near communities of color,” wrote the signatories. “This is no accident.”