The NY Times has a surprising report on how Planned Parenthood is being accused by employees of mistreating them when they are pregnant.
I know. It’s shocking, to quote Stephen Miller, that Planned Parenthood wouldn’t hold pregnant women in high regard!
Here’s the report:
NY TIMES – In interviews and legal documents, women at Planned Parenthood and other organizations with a feminist bent described discrimination that violated federal or state laws — managers considering pregnancy in hiring decisions, for example, or denying rest breaks recommended by a doctor.
In other cases, the bias was more subtle. Many women said they were afraid to announce a pregnancy at work, sensing they would be seen as abandoning their colleagues.
And at Planned Parenthood, the country’s leading provider of reproductive services, managers in some locations declined to hire pregnant job candidates, refused requests by expecting mothers to take breaks and in some cases pushed them out of their jobs after they gave birth, according to current and former employees in California, Texas, North Carolina and New York.
Most Planned Parenthood offices do not provide paid maternity leave, though many let new mothers take partially paid disability leave.
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America has its headquarters in Manhattan. The clinics that serve women are run by 55 regional affiliates with their own chief executives and human resources policies. They receive some money and support from headquarters.
Tight budgets sometimes created punishing workplace conditions, employees said. A dozen lawsuits filed against Planned Parenthood clinics in federal and state courts since 2013 accused managers of denying workers rest periods, lunch breaks or overtime pay, or retaliating against them for taking medical leave.
Managers have discriminated against pregnant women and new mothers, according to interviews with the current and former Planned Parenthood employees and with organizers from the Office and Professional Employees International Union, which represents some Planned Parenthood workers.
In Miami, one current and two former employees said that women at a Planned Parenthood office were scared to tell managers they were pregnant. One of them said that, in conversations with supervisors, colleagues would often volunteer that they were not planning on having children or were gay or single.
“It was looked down upon for you to get pregnant,” said Carolina Delgado, who worked in the Miami office until 2012. “I don’t think that any supervisor had to literally say it for us to feel it.”
This report is getting a lot of attention on Twitter. It is surprising that the NY Times would even run such a piece considering this is Planned Parenthood we’re talking about. Democrats protect that organization like no other and I’m sure many of them aren’t happy to see this report being published.
I’d say this is another reason to defund Planned Parenthood, but truthfully, we don’t need another reason. Murdering babies should be enough to shut that organization down completely. But unfortunately that’s not the world we live in right now. Republicans won’t defund it and, so far, the Supreme Court has left Roe vs Wade in tact.
Read the full NY Times article here.