The information contained in this post is from items taken out of the "statement of material fact" for the case of Planned Parenthood vs. Rounds/Larry Long/Alpha Center/Black Hills Crisis Pregnancy Center.
Many statements to follow were quoted as coming from deposition testimony.
- Planned Parenthood has five employees who act as "patient educators" who counsel pregnant mothers considering an abortion at its Sioux Falls Clinic. NONE of the five "patient educators" at Planned Parenthood's Sioux Falls clinic are licensed counselors.
- Planned Parenthood provides no counseling certification program for the Sioux Falls facility, and offers no training program for the South Dakota "counselors" or "educators".
- The only training in counseling that Planned Parenthood's Sioux Falls patient educators recieve, is for the educator "trainee" to sit in on some current "patient education" sessions to observe what hte educator say and do.
- Planned Parenthood admits that its counselors-only recently called "patient educators"-are NOT competant to counsel mothers about the unborn child, or even simple facts about fetal development
KATE LOOBY
- Despite the fact that Kate Looby is the State Director who serves as a "patient educator," and she hires and "trains" other "patient educators," Ms. Looby is:
- NOT a licensed counselor.
- NOT trained to recognize (or treat) mental illness.
- NOT trained to recognize symptoms of depression.
- NOT trained to recognize risk factors for depression.
- NOT trained to recognize whether a woman is at risk of suicide ideation.
- Kate Looby admits that she knows nothing about molecular biology, human embryology and human genetics. Even though she admits she knows nothing about these topics, she is one of the Planned Parenthood personnel who decides what written material should be given to the women who come into the Sioux Falls clinic.
- State Director Looby does not know, one way or the other, whether a pregnant mother considering an abortion at the Planned Parenthood facility in Sioux Falls knows any more about human genetics, human embryology or molecular biology than Ms. Looby herself knows.
- Ms. Looby doesn't even possess a rudimentary knowledge of fetal development, as witnessed by the fact that she does not even know at what age a human embryo first has a beating heart.
- Kate Looby has no education or backround in medicine or nursing, her only eduction and her experience was in business administration, real estate development, political policy and development.
- Ms. Looby admitted that she read NONE of the 1,940 affidavits submitted by women who had abortions, which were submitted to the Task Force to study abortion.
- Planned Parenthood's own expert, Dr. Maria Bell testified that Ms. Looby demonstrated in her deposition that she was ignorant about very basic information abou the unborn child/fetus/embryo.
- Kate Looby claimed she did know one thing about human genetics-That was human beings have only 13 pairs of chromosomes.
**Just for the record, the correct answer is actually 23 pairs!!**
(Yet, she is "training" the other "patient educators" at Planned Parenthood?)
Andrea
- Has NO training of any kind in the the field of medicine, nursing, psychiatry or psychology.
- Knows NOTHING about fetal development, does not discuss fetal development with the pregnant women she "counsels" and would not even attempt to answer a question about fetal development, if asked.
- If a question arises to which she does not know the answer, she asks Kate Looby(Who admittedly knows nothing about molecular biology, human embryology, and human genetics.)
Kylene
- Kylene knows nothing of substance about fetal development, and does NOT attempt to provide information about fetal development.
Jamie
- Jamie knows nothing about fetal development and does not attempt to answer any questions about fetal development with pregnant women at the clinic.
Pam
- Pam did not take any courses in human embryology, and although she has looked at "bits and pieces" of some embryology literature, she does NOT understand the terminology of "THOSE LONG WORDS" and cannot repeat them. :)
- Pam does not know anything about human genetics or molecular biology.
- Pam does not know what is actually present in a physiological way, in an embryo at the age of seven weeks post-conception.
- Pam admits she has no idea what pregnant women who come there know, if anything, about what is inside them, about the embryo or fetus.
Dr. Carol Ball-(Medical Director of Planned Parenthood)
- Dr. Ball incorrectly assumed that it was conclusively established twenty years ago that abortion does not place a woman at risk for physchological harm, and for that reason has NOT read the literature and scores of peer reviewed journals that have produced evidence of such harm over the past 10 to 15 years.
- Dr. Ball believes there was literature published twenty years ago that conclusively established that there is no such thing as Post Abortion Stress Disorder, and she has NOT read the literature since.
- Dr. Ball has not read any of the expert reports and declerations in this case, and does not know their contents.
