For Immediate Release: March 25, 2025
Manhattan, NY—On March 19, 2025, Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business, announced plans to sell their Manhattan Flagship location, shuttering services in the Borough, citing financial difficulties and remaining conspicuously silent on recent allegations of substandard practice. Competition is growing in the abortion capital of the nation, with pro-life medical offices recently launching in Brooklyn and The Bronx.
Curiously, on February 15, The New York Times released an exposé on the abortion giant. The Grey Lady, so often writing in support of the abortion industry, when confronted with the facts seemed to conclude that Planned Parenthood was, at minimum delivering substandard care, resulting in malpractice lawsuits. The article begins with a graphic account of a botched chemical abortion, which is just “one of scores of allegations reviewed by The Times that accuse Planned Parenthood of poor care.”
Malpractice issues are not new to New York’s abortion industry. In 2023, the Washington Stand published accounts, based on public records, of the deaths of many women (some as young as 13) and how chemical abortion left a 16-year-old “sick, sore, lame and disabled.”
Yet, Wendy Stark, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Greater New York, claimed the shuttering of their Manhattan location is due to the “gap between inflation and stagnant reimbursement rates…” This is curious as NY Gov. Hochul in 2024 alone gave $100.7 million to NY abortionists, and Planned Parenthood received nearly $700 million in Federal funds in 2023.
Later that same NYT article notes, “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.”
CompassCare CEO, Rev. Jim Harden, notes, “New York is promoting, paying for, and protecting abortion businesses here, going so far as to make New York an abortion sanctuary state, insulating criminal abortionists from liability when violating federal or state law. The claim that Planned Parenthood is struggling financially just doesn’t add up.”
Instead of having the Department of Health audit the abortion industry for allegations of fraud, abuse and misconduct committed against women, Gov. Hochul is seeking to protect the criminal actions of abortionists with the recently enhanced Shield Law. Meanwhile, NY Attorney General Letitia James, ignoring the unethical practices of abortionists, targets the abortion industry’s only competition, pro-life Pregnancy Centers.
Rev. Harden, author of Ethical Theory and Pertinent Standards in Women’s Reproductive Health, says, “Women deserve better than abortion. It is time the billion-dollar abortion empire be held accountable for the damages inflicted on women while claiming death-inducing procedures like chemical abortion are ‘safer than Tylenol.’”
“Protecting the abortion industry by attacking pro-life Christians only makes sense,” Rev. Harden continued, “This month, CompassCare opened two state-of-the-art medical offices in Brooklyn and The Bronx and has been very vocal about our goal—to have an ethical medical abortion alternative for women in each of NYC’s 5 Boroughs. The abortion industry can never compete with pro-life medical offices on serving women with compassion and dignity. For pro-life Christians, a woman and her baby are persons to be blessed and protected. All the abortion industry sees are dollar signs.”
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