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Sue Thayer holds up the sign she carried in the March for Life in Washington, D.C. on January 28, 2018. | (PHOTO: FACEBOOK/SUE THAYER)

By Sue Thayer, Washington Examiner, February 20, 2020

Sue Thayer is a former Planned Parenthood manager who now serves as the director of outreach with 40 Days for Life.

During my years as a Planned Parenthood center manager, I always heard the mantra that abortion should be, as Bill Clinton once said, “safe, legal, and rare.” But now, being on the other side of the abortion conversation, it’s easy to see that the organization’s focus was never about protecting women or preventing abortion. This is easily proven by Planned Parenthood’s most recent report and its choice to retaliate against the new Trump administration rule that will require insurers to bill abortion coverage separately.

Planned Parenthood’s annual report debunks their earlier public relations efforts to manipulate the numbers in their favor. They have often said that abortion comprises “only” 3% of their services performed. The report showed a record-high 345,672 abortions — an increase of nearly 4% from the previous year. This is occurring even as the number of abortions nationwide is in decline. It means that Planned Parenthood alone performs almost 40% of all abortions in the U.S. ….

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