Was Kermit Gosnell’s abortion clinic an aberration? Three former Planned Parenthood employees don’t think so.
Appearing at a Delaware state Senate hearing earlier this week, the whistleblowers testified about the horrifying conditions they encountered at Planned Parenthood’s Delaware clinic. What they shared struck a decidedly discordant note with the recent Wendy-palooza in which national media credulously embraced and amplified the claims of state Sen. Wendy Davis that abortion clinics don’t need more regulation. We were informed then that the only people who support such things are vicious woman haters.
Yet, two former Planned Parenthood nurses – Joyce Vasikonis and Jayne Mitchell-Werbrich – have been ringing alarm bells since April about the “meat-market-style, assembly-line abortions,”they witnessed at the Delaware clinic. Moreover, they have complained of lax regulation and a lack of government oversight of abortion clinics in Delaware.
This week they were joined by Melody Meanor, a former health-care manager at Planned Parenthood of Delaware. Meanor testified that she felt compelled to come forward because she was “offended when Planned Parenthood of Delaware attempted to discredit the [prior] testimony” of Mitchell-Werbrich and Vasikonis who described what she too had witnessed.
Meanor, who previously had worked for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, described a lack of training of health-care assistants, who she said were not required to have medical credentials or prior health-care work experience. Said Meanor, “Most of the abuses I observed….stemmed from the fact that untrained health care assistants were assigned serious medical responsibilities that they were not trained to perform,” such as assisting with abortions.
