By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The president of the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, admitted that she attended a “special meeting” at the White House last Wednesday to discuss health care reform.
According to LifeNews.com, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards admitted to the meeting on a Facebook posting.
“Yesterday I attended a special meeting at the White House to discuss women and health insurance reform,” Richards wrote on August 14.
“The basic message was that we’ve got to remind folks why we became so dedicated to reforming the health care system — or more particularly, the health insurance system — in the first place,” she continues.
Richards says the government-run health care system is needed because of rising health care costs and appears to indicate more women are visiting Planned Parenthood centers for abortions.
“In fact given the unemployment rate and widespread loss of insurance coverage, at Planned Parenthood we are seeing so many more women,” she writes.
Planned Parenthood tends to reap millions if the current legislation passes because they are designated as an “essential community provider” which puts them in line to qualify for federal funding for abortions.
But this is not the first time Planned Parenthood has been invited to the White House. Richards was one of several attendees of a White House-sponsored womens health care summit in June, 2009 that excluded any pro-life organizations.
Another member of this roundtable was Melody Barnes, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, who formerly served as Executive Vice President for Policy at the ultra-liberal Center for American Progress. During her tenure at the Center, she authored a paper suggesting that the pro-abortion community shift “beyond the stagnant abortion debate” and make abortion not a life and death morality issue, but a health care issue.
While the Obama Administration has been swift to attack other criticisms of the health care reform bill, it remains silent on the impact the bill will have on America’s abortion industry and has removed the issue from the White House’s “reality check” page on health care reform.
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