This is a very long (extremely sympathetic of course) article which anyone should be able to access for free. So just some short excerpts below the link. We highlighted a couple of the excerpts. The Times describes an incredible number of errors. And the so-called "medical assistants" have no real professional training.
We deliberately excerpted about PP of Greater NY and Upper Hudson PP.
Ms. Alston filed a malpractice suit against Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood, one of several complaints about patient care at the New York clinic that women have brought to her lawyer, Louis B. Oliver. “Planned Parenthood provides a very important area of medical care,” Mr. Oliver said. “But I speak out and have sued them because even disadvantaged people deserve good care.”
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The lack of resources is startling: Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Planned Parenthood has enjoyed a fund-raising boom, with $498 million in donations that year. But little of it goes to the state affiliates to provide health care at clinics. Instead, under the national bylaws, the majority of the money is spent on the legal and political fight to maintain abortion rights.
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Last year, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York — one of the few places where abortion is still legal up to 24 weeks — said that a budget shortfall would force it to restrict later term abortion services, effectively implementing a 20-week abortion ban. It closed four clinics.
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Employees said there has been constant pressure to more than double the number of patients seen from the present 2.1 million, to help bring in more revenues.
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York expects clinics to see more than four patients an hour, and for appointments to last about 10 minutes, according to an email sent by management to clinic staff obtained by The Times.
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Planned Parenthood of New York City was one of the strongest affiliates. It had wealthy donors, celebrity-filled fund-raisers and a State Legislature that supported abortion rights and paid some of the highest state Medicaid reimbursement rates in the country. But clinics in the rest of the state had fewer donors.
In 2019, New York City agreed to become part of a new entity called Planned Parenthood of Greater New York, which included affiliates in Nassau County, the mid-Hudson Valley, Southern Finger Lakes and Mohawk Hudson.
But some of the chief executives of the five affiliates, who made a combined $1.5 million a year before the merger, balked at taking pay cuts. Two of them left not long after the transaction closed in January 2020.
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