Wen said in a letter to the organization’s 55 affiliates and senior leadership that she had tried to broaden the organization’s mission to include a wide array of health-care services, including abortions.
“I am leaving the organization sooner than I’d hoped because of philosophical differences about the direction and future of Planned Parenthood,” she wrote in the letter. But “the new board leadership has determined that the priority of Planned Parenthood moving forward is to double down on abortion rights advocacy.”
public ideology: “I believe in nuance, we need a diversity of options to improve the freedom and liberty of our individual consumers of healthcare”
private ideology: (genocidal Malthusian who spends their time reducing access to medical care, uses euphemisms and half truths, only giving lip service to anything besides capitalist accumulation and social murder)
Death Panel podcast has talked about her neoliberal pure ideology, her main “philosophical differences” are being a PMC demon
is to double down on abortion rights advocacy.
They’re trying to prevent the massive harm that will result from women not having safe access to abortion, not playing blackjack, you useless reptilian dumbfuck. This isn’t a “walk away from the table and cash in your chips” moment for the people Planned Parenthood is supposed to serve, you cloud-dwelling Ivy-League ingenue. People’s lives are at stake, you blinkered neoliberal sociopath.
I think it’s a gross turn of phrase to use regardless - ‘doubling down’ gets trotted out by the political press to describe a politician continuing to support a losing position or a debunked lie, and to use it to imply that it’s part of a bad business model or poor choice of optics like Planned Parenthood should be following the winds of political sentiment is indicative that she doesn’t really understand the history or purpose of the organization.
Wen doesn’t actually have a position with the Biden administration. Super-ghoul that she is - she really wanted one and her tweets and tv appearances were auditions to get Biden to notice her but as far as I know - she has no connection to the administration. Am I wrong?
6.5/10 on the :jesse-wtf: scale
the priority of Planned Parenthood moving forward is to double down on abortion rights advocacy.
what else would it be?
