Facts on receving an abortion by Planned Parenthood.
- Person who answers the phone first time schedules a surgery without the pregnant mother ever seeing or speaking to a physician.
- Planned Parenthood's telephone intake procedure does NOT distiguish between women who call who want to discuss what is involved in abortion, and which callers think they want abortions. All who want to come into the facility have abortions scheduled for them.
- They volunteer NO counseling and assume the pregnant mother has already made her decision to have an abortion by the time she arrives at the clinic.
- They take signed consent form from women and have the mother pay before she sees the patient educator or doctor.
- They have the pregnant woman submit to an abortion even if she is openly weeping in the session with the "patient "educator".
- There is never established any true doctor-patient relationship.
- Planned Parenthood does not know what percent of the no shows requested the fetal development information, and Planned Parenthood has never checked that data in an effort to determine if the fetal development information influenced the women not to keep the appointments.
- Planned Parenthood has the pregnant mother sign the consent form BEFORE she gets to ask any questions.
- The pregnant women considering a surgical abortion is REQUIRED by Planned Parenthood to sign Consent Form 601 and pay for the abortion BEFORE she sees a "patient educator."
- Their consent form (Form 601), is in actuality only an acknowledgment that she had the telephone script read to her over the phone.
- The "patient educator" does NOT volunteer any information in this session other than how the procedure is done unless the "patient educator" is asked a specific question.
- Planned Parenthood, its doctors and staff assume the women made her decision to have an abortion by the time she arrives at the clinic. (Again, this is before she meets with a "patient educator".)
- According to Planned Parenthood staff: It is common for women to cry (as many as 25% of the women cry) in these "patient education" sessions, and sometimes the women weep openly and "bawl." Planned Parenthood performs the abortions THAT DAY anyway.
The Abortion Procedure
- The doctor who performs the abortion does NOT volunteer any information to the woman and does NOT discuss the status of the unborn child, not even simple facts about fetal development.
- The doctor spends about 5 to 10 minutes with the pregnant woman, most of which, by far, is the time required to perform the abortion. (deposition of Dr. McCreary and Dr. Ball)
- There is never a true doctor-patient relationship between the woman and the doctor because:
- The surgery is scheduled without anyone consulting the doctor.
- The consent is taken without counseling or the doctor ever seeing the patient.
- The woman pays for the abortion BEFORE she sees a counselor or physician.
- The physician does NOT see the patient before OR AFTER the abortion is done.
- The physician does NOT voluntarily counsel the woman.
- The physician does NOT do ANY follow-up and typically and doctor only sees the woman for five to ten minutes in the woman's entire life.
