Planned Parenthood Pays $500,000 Fine After EEOC Investigation for DEI Policies
Our nation’s largest abortion giant violated federal law by discriminating against white employees, an investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) found.
The agency announced on Monday Planned Parenthood of Illinois will pay a $500,000 settlement for segregating employees by race, harassing white employees and providing white workers with fewer employment privileges. The investigation began after four Planned Parenthood employees spoke out against the abortion mill’s racist practices.
The abortion affiliate created mandatory “‘affinity caucuses’ that were segregated by race, in which employees of other races were not allowed to participate,” the EEOC said.
“Segregating employees by race violates the core promise of our nation’s civil rights laws,” said EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas in a statement. “Title VII guarantees equal treatment for every employee and prohibits race discrimination in America’s workplaces. Those protections equally apply to white workers.”
Chair Lucas added,
According to the EEOC’s allegations, a Planned Parenthood manager also made “racially harassing statements” and the organization “demanded all employees attend DEI-related training sessions which involved repeated harassing and derogatory statements targeting white employees,” including statements like “[white employees] are white and do not feel racism the same way non-white patients feel” and “white supremacy is exerted at every level of oppression.”
Additionally, the organization “denied white employees access to time off that it granted only to black employees.”
Announcing the news on X, Chair Lucas said, “Calling something DEI doesn’t inoculate the practice or program from liability under longstanding civil rights rules.”
“Four workers here bravely spoke up against segregation, harassment, and disparate treatment. Grateful to U.S. EEOC career staff for their work investigating and conciliating this matter to a strong resolution.”
As a result of the EEOC’s investigation, Planned Parenthood removed the manager responsible for the alleged misconduct.
But for the abortion giant, racism is nothing new. The organization was founded by racist Margaret Sanger, an advocate of eugenics, who opened the first Planned Parenthood clinic in Brooklyn, New York.
Planned Parenthood only recently acknowledged Sanger’s overt racism against black citizens.
Sanger infamously launched The Negro Project to eliminate black Americans through sterilization and birth control, the Daily Citizen has previously reported.
While the context of Sanger’s words is debated, she once described the project, saying, “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
Abortion as it is practiced today fulfills Sanger’s dark dreams. As we’ve noted, “Although African Americans are about 14% of the U.S. population, 28% of all abortions are from black women, compared to 6.4% of white women.” In New York City, a preborn African American baby is more likely to be aborted than born.
The EEOC’s investigation of the abortion giant’s racist policies deserves praise, especially since one might call Planned Parenthood a “systemically racist” organization.
But the work of pro-life supporters continues until the organization closes its evil doors for good.
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A Fascinating Perspective on Racial Issues
EEOC Chair Warns Companies Against Discriminatory DEI Policies
Andrea Lucas Leads the EEOC: Restoring Agency With Truth and Common Sense
The Racist Origins of Planned Parenthood
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