Posted on 08/20/2004 10:37:41 AM PDT by areafiftyone
To: National Desk
Contact: Joe Giganti of the American Life League, 703-928-9695 or jgiganti@all.org
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- On the heels of the announcement that minority employees of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles have filed a federal racism complaint against the organization, Jim Sedlak, executive director of American Life League's STOPP International, issued the following statement:
Many people have noted the apparent external racism of Planned Parenthood through the years. Now employees of the organization are documenting what is going on behind closed doors. This is not the first such claim made against a Planned Parenthood affiliate.
With new allegations officially recorded, it now raises the question of how many other incidents may have occurred but have gone unreported. STOPP is now asking our elected officials to begin an investigation to determine if racial discrimination is widespread at Planned Parenthood facilities, and to respond appropriately if evidence of such behavior is discovered.
On Nov. 11, 1998, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of appeals handed down a decision in Fadeyi vs. Planned Parenthood Association of Lubbock, Inc. The court ruled that Lamarilyn Fadeyi, an employee of Planned Parenthood, did have standing to file complaints against Planned Parenthood for racial discrimination.
Fadeyi was an African-American woman who was employed by Planned Parenthood Association of Lubbock, Inc., for seven years. She alleged that Planned Parenthood engaged in various acts of racial discrimination against her during the course of her employment, ranging from discriminatory scheduling and distribution of office resources to the executive director's giving her and another black employee an application for membership in the Ku Klux Klan. Fadeyi filed complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Texas Commission on Human Rights.
Nationally, Planned Parenthood receives over $250 million in taxpayer money annually. Planned Parenthood Los Angeles received $9.6 million in taxpayer money (50.5 percent of its total income) just last year. In addition to calling for a federal investigation, STOPP is renewing its call for legislative bodies at the federal, state and local levels to cease all funding of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its roster of affiliates.
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Very interesting.
...Unfortunately however, as we now see with Senator Kerry's Viet Nam record, the Lamestream Media will only run interference for Planned Parenthood. In other words, don't hold your breath for Dan, Tom, Peter, or Katie to cover this one.
-Regards, T.
Can we probe them for murder while we're at it?
Well, an organization inspired by Margaret Sanger, an open racist, would follow suit by being discriminatory...
Prolife ping.
As much as I hate Planned Parenthood, this sounds like BS.
The director would have to have the IQ of a dying petunia to pull something like that.
Of course, he'd have to have the morals of a pimp in hell to work for an organization that murders babies, too!
This sounds like two evils meeting head-on.
May they destroy each other.
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