Abortion giant Planned Parenthood is being hit by a big backlash over its obsession with promoting the child-mutilating trans agenda.
As federal and state governments take aim at the abortion giant’s taxpayer funding, some of Planned Parenthood’s own donors and other insiders are worried that “mission creep” into broader left-wing activism has exacerbated the organization’s struggles, according to a recent report.
According to the Wall Street Journal, former Planned Parenthood president Leana Wen’s brief tenure following the late Cecile Richards caused internal consternation for her attempts to broaden the mission into non-“reproductive” issues, but a “different kind of mission creep set in” under current president and self-proclaimed “social and racial justice” warrior Alexis McGill Johnson, alienating donors with activist stands on topics like gender, gun control, Senate rules, and the size of the Supreme Court.
Paradoxically, now the “only mention of ‘women’ among its promotional items are T-shirts emblazoned with ‘Stand with Black Women,’” WSJ notes, while the “organization’s pervasive language around ‘pregnant people’ is intended to be inclusive of [so-called] transgender people, a cause that the organization connects to abortion … under the umbrella of ‘bodily autonomy.’”
“I don’t understand the national office’s thinking in not allowing anyone to talk about women’s health anymore,” said former PP CEO Pamela Maraldo, who resigned over dissatisfaction with her self-described “safe, legal, and rare” approach to abortion. “These really, really left-wing ideological postures are to me just as off-putting as they are on the right when they’re counter to basic Americans’ common sense.”
The report notes that perceived threats to abortion “access” tend to help the organization’s fundraising, but such boosts are not sustainable and tend to only support more activism.
“Though the Dobbs ruling led to a surge in fundraising, donations have dropped 15% from a decade high of $428 million in 2022, and most of those funds go toward advocacy” as opposed to Planned Parenthood’s “services,” WSJ notes. Further, “Some former staff members describe the national office as bloated, with too many employees making too much money in undefined roles. (Planned Parenthood did not respond to a request for comment.) McGill Johnson received more than $900,000 in compensation, according to the organization’s most recent publicly available tax returns.”
“Meanwhile, many clinics are underfunded and operate at a deficit,” the report added. “Some former executives said the national office’s outspoken progressive agenda can make it harder for affiliates to gain the support of local and state governments. Over the past two decades, clinics have closed or left the network. (Planned Parenthood would not provide specific numbers.)”