Wednesday afternoon, two former Planned Parenthood of Delaware nurses testified before the Delaware state Senate and recounted the unsafe, unsanitary conditions and “meat-market-style assembly-line abortions” that led them to quit their jobs last month. Joyce Vasikonis and Jayne Mitchell-Werbrich have charged that Planned Parenthood:
- Placed patients in grave danger through poor care and insufficient training.
- Assigned medical responsibilities to employees who had insufficient medical training.
- Rushed abortion procedures at a speed that made patient safety impossible and allowed doctors to carry out abortions without properly cleaning and sterilizing procedure rooms.
- Failed to report to patients that they had contracted sexually transmitted diseases.
- Tolerated sexual harassment of employees.
- Attempted to falsify employee records.
- Drastically under-reported the number of abortions they performed to the state of Delaware.
- Failed to provide standard medical policies and procedures guidelines to medical staff to protect patients.
- Failed to comply with state parental notification laws.
Full testimony is available online for Joyce Vasikonis and Jayne Mitchell-Werbrich.
“Planned Parenthood is America’s No. 1 abortion business, which in a single year ended the lives of 333,964 children,” explains Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser. “The standard-bearer in Big Abortion cannot claim Gosnell’s ‘house of horrors’ was isolated while their own employees expose them for ‘ridiculously unsafe’ conditions.”
Ellen Barosse, founder of the Delaware pro-life group A Rose and A Prayer, adds, “Delaware has the highest abortion rate in the United States. But this is not just a statistic. If what these nurses say is true, real women—especially poor women—are being hurt as Delaware abortion providers use substandard, third-world medical care, regardless of the human cost. We are grateful to these brave women for caring enough about their patients for being willing to share their stories.”
