Silver lining: Planned Parenthood lays off 20 percent of staff
Nope. Not shedding any tears over this recession-related news. Not one tear:
Hit with declines in funding from the economic crisis and the Madoff scandal, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America is laying off around 20% of its staff.
Roughly 30 people were let go earlier this week, according to a source who works for the nonprofit. Executives at Planned Parenthood confirmed the layoffs, but declined to give more details.
“As with many other nonprofit organizations, Planned Parenthood has had to make staff reductions at our headquarters due to the challenging economic times facing our country,” said Maryana Iskander, chief operating officer at the agency.
…Part of Planned Parenthood’s funding declines stem from the closing of the Florida-based Picower Foundation, which shut down in December because its assets were managed by Bernard Madoff. The $1 billion foundation was one of the few major funders of reproductive rights issues.
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Cry me a river….
Woo hoo!
Guess PP didn’t plan ahead
I don’t understand why you think you have the authority to force women to go through with unplanned pregnancies, Michelle, I really don’t.
*unwanted pregnancies, I meant
I can’t find where she claims any authority in the matter at all. She does seem to believe as I do that killing a human embryo is killing a human.
Malkin tries to undermine abortion’s legality all the time and I have no doubt that she would favour criminalising women who don’t want to go through with unwanted pregnancies. If you believe abortion is murder, that’s fine; don’t have an abortion. But don’t force YOUR decision on other people.
Golly! I didn’t realize MM had the authority to do so. You would think she’d have posted something about having the power to outlaw abortion. In fact, if the story said that PP had laid off 100% of staff, then your post might not be so ridiculous. But, alas, back here in reality, people are still capable of ending
inconvenient“unwanted” pregnancies.I am not forcing my decision on anyone. That said, I would not shed a tear if Roe were overturned, giving the authority to the states where it belongs.
Planned Parenthood uses abortion for birth control. Since taxpayers are funding it, I’d say we have the right to have an opinion on it.
The majority of Americans support abortion, and especially the majority of women support abortion.
Then you would have no problem putting it up to a vote?
If you believe abortion is muder then you should do everything you can to stp murder. Surely this is obvious even to a lefty?
Or would you say “I know you think that lynching black men is muder, but don’t try to force YOUR decision on other people”?
Now–close 20% of the clinic (aka–death mills, death camp (oops wrong century, but same results))
Jake
Well, Omu, count me as one woman who does NOT support the culture of death!
I suspect that’s a big negative.
Where in the world do you get your stats? Alot of women who’ve HAD abortions, no longer support abortion. Especially if used as birth control. How many abortions have you had, Umo?
Unlike conservatives, I don’t think we should put rights and freedoms up for a vote. Even though the majority of Americans want gay people to remain as second class citizens in their country, that doesn’t make it right. It didn’t make slavery right, and it didn’t make segregation right either. It’s funny that conservatives only ever want to put rights they disagree with up for a vote. I don’t see too many conservatives recomending that we put gun control or even a ban on guns up for the vote in New England, New York, Illinois or California!
As a matter of principle, I wouldn’t support putting it to a vote, but it would pass if it was put to a vote.
Even Roe from Roe v Wade no longer supports abortion after decades of supporting it…
I’ll take that bet. I’d bet real good money Roe would be overturned in a national vote. After seeing the black and hispanic community follow through on their morals in California on gay marriage I am confident they and many others would follow through on stopping the murder of unborn children.
Here.
Already put to a vote by the Continental Congress when including it in the Bill of Rights. Then voted on again when ratified by the thirteen original colonies. Finally, voted on as each new state petitioned for entry into the Union.
Abortion is not a “right”. You saying otherwise does not magically make it so.
This is as opposed to gun rights, which really and truely ARE rights, again whether sub-literate morons like you like it or not.
Are you going to defend the “right” to murder any other groups? Blacks? Jews? Mormons? Gays? I notice you dodged this question earlier.
Omu, you’re kind of dopey. Since you are such a supporter of rights and freedoms, why don’t you use your energy to stop the genital mutilation of young girls rather than the killing of innocent life?
and your link doesn’t work.
OMU said.
So by your reasoning one could take it a step further “if you don’t believe in murder, that’s fine; don’t murder. But don’t force YOUR decision on ether people.”
Is this what you believe?
Well good I guess, but how many innocents blood is on their hands?
She’s a citizen in a representative democracy. That gives her the right to try to enact laws.
I know you types are really pining for us to become a socialist dictatorship. The USSR had wonderful “right to chose” laws. But we’re not there quite yet.
Feel free to ask any further questions about the many things which puzzle you. We’re here to help you learn.
As a practicing Maronite Catholic, I am Pro Life and against abortion. I always have been, always will be.
Pray for the repose of the Souls of all the millions of babies denied the right to life.
BZZZZZZZZZZ! I’m sorry that is incorrect. But thank you for playing.
BTW since when did murder become a “right”?
And to the 20% canned by the murdering scum I say good riddance. But to the 80% left behind I say “A pox on you and SHAME!”
I did not “dodge” this question. It’s ludricrous. I’m sure if I thought like Sarah Palin and her hideously stupid followers, I’d want the right to kill gay people, but I don’t think like her and I don’t want that right. A fetus is a fetus, not a human being. Sorry about that scientific fact – reality does clash with social conservatism an awful lot …
They don’t teach Rights and Responsibilities in school anymore do they? How about this Umo? Sure, you have the RIGHT, the freedom, to have sex. With that comes the RESPONSIBILITY to have protected sex. If you become pregnant anyway, OOPS! You lose! You now have the RESPONSIBILITY of a new human being. Actions have consequences, grownups deal with them, they don’t kill them and they sure don’t expect others to pay for it.
I don’t recall S. Palin advocating the murder of anyone. I don’t remember her hideously stupid followers doing that either.
What about fetuses that would grow up to be gay, should they be spared?
So you think Palin wants to kill gay people?
Prove to me that a fetus is not a human.
Apologies. Here are the statistics.
You haven’t done your social conservative homework; gay people aren’t “born” gay, they make a consious decision and “choose” to lead a “lifestyle” of homosexuality. That’s how social conservatives justify their grotesque treatment of gay people. You need to study more, I think!
Of course not. That was cheap shot. But I do believe she would put gay people in prison if she could.
It depends on it’s natural carrier for survival, therefore it is not a human being yet, but rather the potential to be a human.
Now dear Omu you are now telling what we call a LIE. I am sure you heard it from someone who heard it from someone but you are still telling a LIE.
Does not an infant not depend on its natural carrier for survival? Logically then, it also is not human.
I don’t get it…what does a homosexual such as the omu care about reproduction?
Great way to change minds and win friends, Omu-Dale Carnegie would be proud.
Omu,
You are a hateful person. I’m sure you will say because I’m male I don’t know anything.I was born premature and illegitimate, Thankfully my birth mother, who I never knew, put me up for adoption. I was adopted by two wonderful people who loved me.
The majority of abortions are for birth control reasons. The rape/incest “red herring” is a very,very small percentage. Why couldn’t these women use the pill, the sponge, an IUD, the patch or spermicidal foam? Why couldn’t they have their partner use a condom? Are all of these abortions due to broken rubbers?
Sarah Palin did not say “kill or imprison all the Gay people”, but you have said, “it’s ok to kill the defenseless”.
The founder of PP, Margaret Sanger was a Eugenicist. Are you saying we should kill all you find undesirable?
People who like and defend Sarah Palin are a lost cause completely. There is no reasoning with them. We (reasonable, decent people) must instead fight them and we must win. I love America and what it stands for far too much to let Sarah Palin, or anyone who thinks like her, destroy it.
I’m happy that adoption worked out for you, but it’s absurd to say that it is a legitimate alternative. Besides, social conservatives do all they can to stifle adoption; a ban on unmarried couples adopting passed in Arkansas last year and despite the fact that there are thousands (perhaps millions) of loving same sex couples who want nothing more than to raise a child, social cons try successfully to stop adoptions by these couples.
An infant depends upon it’s parents for food and protection. A fetus can not breath without being in the womb. Absolutely, I agree that there should be a limit on abortions, but up until that limit, abortion should be available on demand.
Umo reminds me of members of my own family who would risk their lives to save a pregnant dog and her unborn puppies, but has no compassion for the unborn human. Its bizarre.
Chicago Robb
I was planned and born pre-Roe but I was born a month early.
I have Asperger’s Syndrome-as did my late father and probably my son the future US Marine.
Am I against abortion?
You betcha.
America stands for abortion and gay sex? Since when?
No wonder the muslims hate us so much.
So where is the limit? At what point to you interfere with a woman’s rights?
Name calling and insults does not indicate a “reasonable, decent” person.
Obviously a product of liberal public school education.
You and you ilk sure do like to mis-characterize things, don’t you?
Obviously a militant liberal hack with no sense of morality.
America stands for not getting in people’s faces and telling them they cannot do those things.
Like support Sarah Palin, cherish life, etc.
I’m just asking. I’m not sure who my ilk is, but, please, do continue.
Fetus is Latin for BABY.
Try again Omu.
And I am a practicing Jewish Woman.
What things?
Thanks for the tip, MM.
And putting Omu’s rancid panties into a wad was a delightful bonus.
It’s Miller Time.
If you who defend the murder of 50 million children are reasonable and decent, then apparently so were Mao Tse Tung, Stalin, Pol Pot, and Hitler, because not one of them was responsible for anywhere near as many deaths as you leftist filth.
’bout time you showed up to the party!
Wrong. America stands for personal responsibility.
TOUCHDOWN!
Boy that is really justice served. Corrupt financier Madoff causing problem for a bunch of baby killers.
You got to love it.
CubbieGal,
From your previous posts, I remember you moved to Aurora. Hey , hopefully there will be cutbacks at Planned
Parenthood’sInfanticide’s “Super Clinic” out there.Auschwitz on the Prairie.
But we’re not speaking Latin, are we? We’re speaking English and that’s not what “fetus” means in English.
I still believe that we should be able to abort liberals at any age. Just liberals. Maybe independents as well.
Practice what you preach, liberals.
What if we stopped referring to them as “Unborn babies” and started calling them “womb kittens?” Would the left be so callous about exterminating them?
What more can be said after that?
Social conservatives pretend that they are “pro-life”, but really, you’re not. Just look at how you treat the living. You tell your gay fellow human beings that they are disgusting and unwelcome. You try to stop welfare to help out the less fortunate among your fellow living human beings. You try to stop universal healthcare to help you fellow humans when they are sick or in pain. You’re not really pro-life, not at all.
I’d support drawing and quartering abortionists, just so they’d get some idea of what the babies had gone through.
Amorality at its finest.
1850s version- if you think Negroes are people and shouldn’t be slaves, don’t own one. But don’t force your decision on the good people of the South.
Not one statement of which is accurate, nor do they have anything to do with killing.
I have nothing against my fellow citizens who are gay, as long as they don’t demand special rights or push their lifestyle in public.
Link is to a ZombieTime report on a gay street festival in Nancy Pelosi’s district, open to the public, including children. Not for the squeamish.
2-point conversion is good! Time out on the field.
Why doesn’t the left ever apply their abortion philosophy to the Second Amendment? If you don’t like guns, don’t own one.
After everything that I have seen take place at the Planned Parenthood clinics in Indiana this year, I am not shedding a tear over this one either.
You have a knack that is unparalled when it comes to dealing with trolls. Keep on keeping on!
Omu only comes out when the conversation is about abortion or homosexuality. It’s like s/he has some kind of spider-sense or something. I’ll bet MM could post a story about homosexual abortion practices in New Guinea at 3 am and Omu would be there.
Omu,
Good job projecting. How many gangs of Sarah Palin supporters vandalized gay hangouts? None.
On a personal note, How many people who you disagree are you friends with? You mistake a heartfelt disagreement as hate. Where is your tolerance?
HEY Omu
This is why we call abortion MURDER.
http://www.idude.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/abortion2.jpg
Trolls are easy to swat down. Their arguments are limited to a fairly small number of left-wing talking points. Once you know the set, countering them is easy. Lefties have trouble thinking outside the box.
But thank you, 30, (I should have said).
Think Omu is coming back? I haven’t heard “Bush Lied, People Died” all day.
They wouldn’t have had to do the layoffs if they had been aborted 20-30 years ago.
Socky-I pretty much stopped reading or writing comments on MM’s site…sooo many commenters now…however…
after reading some of your comments…I’m going to glance at the MM comment sections again…
‘womb kittens’ was great!
C-CS
LALFL
Omu (the buzzard) went feeding elsewhere.
OMU,, how you can accuse conservatives of not caring for the living. This is like rather hate speeech isn’t it? Would you favor POST BIRTH ABORTION lke say up to two years after the birth? This would give the mother more choices incase she was offered a great job and her baby would be in the way. What do you think of that. Further more the Lord refers to prebirth babies as having souls and He knows them personally. I would hate to be in your place on Judgement Day.
Don’t use religion to justify anything. If you want to believe in something illogical and for which there is no proof, so be it. Don’t make laws based on that nonsense, though.
You are doing what most liberals do; redefining what something means in order to support your agenda/worldview. Pathetic.
I treat everyone as equals. Every last one of us have the ability to succeed/fail in life.
I don’t have a problem with homosexuals. My brother is homosexual. He spent Thanksgiving at my house with his friend, whom we welcomed into our home with arms wide open.
Welfare is just another form of slavery; only difference is that the “massa” is the government and it’ll only cost you your self worth, and lifetime voting Democrat.
For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “If a man will not work, he shall not eat.” 2 Thessalonians 3:10
WILL not work, not CANNOT work. Big difference. This too can be applied to healthcare.
By that same token you’re not really tolerant or inclusive.
Fetus is Latin – no matter what crap your liberal teachers taught. The meaning of the word did not change.
That YOU used a word whose meaning you choose to IGNORE, well, just shows how uneducated YOU really are.
BOTTOM LINE, because abortion ends the LIFE of a FETUS, (Latin for BABY) mean it is murder.
Fetus is Latin – no matter what crap your liberal teachers taught. The meaning of the word did not change.
That YOU used a word whose meaning you choose to IGNORE, well, just shows how uneducated YOU really are.
BOTTOM LINE, because abortion ends the LIFE of a FETUS, (Latin for BABY) mean it is murder.
How are homosexuals “second class citizens” if they can vote, own property, attend whatever college they want, shop in the same stores as everyone else, and use the same facilities and water fountains as everyone else?
Heads Up –just heard from one of my board members – LALFL- that PP is asking for a grant (bailout?) from our government…Have not checked it out but-it wouldn’t surprise me….
C-CS
Thank you, Christian Soldier. Between that and my comment about EagleHasLanded this morning, I think this has been one of my more clever days.
UNITED STATES LEGAL SYSTEM is based on not just the BIBLE, but TALMUDIC LAW.
Torts, manslaughter v. murder, bankruptcy laws – ALL based on BIBLICAL LAW.
Get over your stupidity already, Omu.
This explains from where the omu is coming from, and why it reasons the way it does. How sad.
It doesn’t reason, it justifies its behavior. It wants unrestrained sexual escapades with no consequences. Any unfortunate natural consequences should be taken care of by a great medical staff, paid for by you.
OMU, What do you hate the Lord so much? Remember you are dead lot longer then your short life. Are you going to take that gamble and march through eternity like a bull in a china closet and then find out you are wrong,,, whoah, that takes guts. Further more what about the post birth babies, you want to get rid of them too?