By Bill Hoffmann
\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n
Donald Trump’s praise of Planned Parenthood for all of its services except abortion is a shallow view of an agency that reaps its profits from terminating pregnancies, Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood director, tells Newsmax TV.<\/p>\n
“My message to Donald Trump \u2026 [is] nothing Planned Parenthood does is for the greater good of women. Every single service they provide leads back to abortion,” Johnson said Wednesday on “The Steve Malzberg Show.”<\/p>\n
“So why do they provide contraceptive services to women? Because they know that eventually that contraceptive will fail; 54 percent of women who have abortions were using contraception at the time they got pregnant.<\/p>\n
“They know that method is going to fail and because they’ve already developed a relationship with that woman then that woman will come back to Planned Parenthood whenever that method did fail and they will be able to sell her on an abortion.”<\/p>\n
It’s the same reason Planned Parenthood offers services to treat sexually transmitted diseases, said Johnson, who once directed abortion services at a large Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas.<\/p>\n
“Why do they provide STD services? Because they care about eradicating STDs? No, because they want to have that first point of contact with a person who is participating in high-risk sexual behavior,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Because they know that that person has a greater chance of having an unplanned pregnancy and that’s a person they can sell an abortion to. Every single service leads back to abortion.”<\/p>\n
Johnson is author the new book, “The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories,” written with Kristin Detrow and published by Ignatius Press.<\/p>\n
She says she quit the agency in 2009 after being called in to assist in the abortion of a 13-week-old fetus and seeing it squirming to avoid being vacuumed out.<\/p>\n
Johnson said she believes lawmakers should yank all federal funding from Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n
“Absolutely. They don’t deserve one penny of our money,” she said.<\/p>\n
Last month, Trump, the GOP presidential front-runner, said: “Look, Planned Parenthood has done very good work for many, many \u2014 for millions of women. And I’ll say it, and I know a lot of the so-called conservatives, they say that’s really… ’cause I’m a conservative, but I’m a common-sense conservative.”<\/p>\n
He said would not fund Planned Parenthood as long as they provided abortion services, but added: “I’ve had thousands of letters from women — that have been helped.”<\/p>\n