PLANNED PARENTHOOD NON-MEDICAL STAFF ADMIT TO ASSISTING ABORTIONS

LOS ANGELES, July 3, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The United States Justice Foundation (USJF) has announced a campaign to force Planned Parenthood (PP) to obey California law. After hearing testimony that non-medical PP staff had assisted in abortions, USJF sent a notice, pursuant to California Civil Code Section 1782, to PP on June 7, 2002.  USJF Staff Attorney Richard D. Acherman demanded among other things that PP cease having unlicensed personnel performing invasive medical procedures on patients; and that PP advise patients as to the qualifications, or lack thereof, of the employees involved in such invasive medical procedures.  According to Gary G. Kreep, Executive Director of USJF, “Two Planned Parenthood employees have recently admitted, in deposition, under of penalty of perjury, that they have assisted in hundreds of abortions, despite the fact that they are not physicians and that they do not have the appropriate training necessary for such involvement. In fact, these two individuals have had no training justifying their involvement in surgical procedures at all.”  The USJF release continued: “The irony of this is that one of the reasons claimed for the need to legalize abortion by its proponents was the fear that, without legalizing abortion, untrained individuals would be performing abortions, and that is exactly what is happening now. Essentially, for Planned Parenthood, and for all the other abortion providers, it is a matter of economics. They want to provide these services as cheaply as possible so that they can maximize their profit.  Abortion is a multi-billion dollar per year industry and numerous individuals are getting rich off of it. One reason why they are getting rich off of it is the use of non-physicians in these procedures, in violation of California law.”  For more see the USJF release:  https://www.usjf.net/html/plannedparentrelease.html