Cecile Richards confirms resignation, praises Planned Parenthood for ‘life-saving’ work

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Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards confirmed in a video announcement this morning that she is resigning as president from America's largest abortion chain this year...

She said working for Planned Parenthood "has been the greatest honor of my life."

Richards has overseen America’s largest abortion vendor since 2006. Her salary continually increased as did her tenure. She currently rakes in nearly a million dollars a year overseeing the organization that commits over 300,000 abortions annually. An estimated 3.5 million babies have been aborted under her watch.

"Planned Parenthood has helped tens of millions take control of their health and their futures by providing birth control, pap smears, breast exams, STI testing and treatment, and safe, legal abortion,” Richards stated in the video. 

Richards said America’s currently low rate of “unintended pregnancies” was due to “the life-changing and life-saving work of Planned Parenthood."...

President Trump’s pro-life mandate continues to threaten the very existence of the abortion giant.

“As Planned Parenthood faces federal criminal investigation from the FBI and DOJ for selling aborted baby hearts, lungs, livers, and brains, Richards’ departure shows that the old strategy is no longer working – the secret is out that Planned Parenthood is a taxpayer-sponsored crime syndicate of industrial-scale child killing, and even Cecile Richards can no longer put a friendly spin on it,” David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress told LifeSiteNews...

Under Richards’ leadership, Planned Parenthood pushed the myth that the 300,000+ abortions her company commits every year are only three percent of its services. Live Action debunked that statistic in 2016.

According to its own annual report, during the 2016-2017 fiscal year, Planned Parenthood aborted 321,384 babies and received $543.7 million from the government. That $543.7 million from taxpayers is 37 percent of its $1.46 billion budget.

Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger, a racist and eugenics supporter who once spoke to a Ku Klux Klan meeting. She called some people “human weeds” and wrote, “We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.”