Former staffers of ousted Planned Parenthood President Leanna Wen paint a picture of a leader who lacked political savvy
Dr. Leana Wen, president of Planned Parenthood, speaks at an abortion-rights rally at Supreme Court in Washington to protest new state bans on abortion services on Tuesday May 21, 2019.The day before Dr. Leana Wen took the reins as president of— the first doctor to lead the organization in 50 years — staffers received a detailed memo indicating how things were going to operate under the new leadership.
On Tuesday, less than eight months after she arrived, Planned Parenthood’s board of directors voted unanimously to remove Wen as president. Wen herself tweeted that she had been pushed out in a “secret meeting,” adding in a follow-up statement that she and the board had “philosophical differences over the direction and future of Planned Parenthood.”
That dynamic was put painfully on display in January, at an event hosted by the PAC Emily’s List in celebration of the new crop of female congresswomen. The purpose of such events, for someone in Wen’s position, is to introduce yourself to lawmakers, shake hands, take photos, and make connections. The problem with that strategy, from the perspective of folks who had worked at Planned Parenthood for a long time, was that it misunderstood a crucial fact: that every piece of political work Planned Parenthood did was to ensure the organization couldThe organization was under constant threat from a well-organized opposition with the explicit political goal of defunding and destroying the organization.
At the end of the day, former staffers believe what finally compelled the board to remove Wen were successive waves of departures by both, and lower level ones. Wen’s hiring coincided with the beginning of the 2020 campaign cycle, and it is not unusual for Planned Parenthood to lose employees to political campaigns, but even that could not account for the number of employees who have fled the organization in recent months., “was a key part of why I left Planned Parenthood.
Wen declined to be interviewed for this piece, citing a high volume of media requests, but spokesperson fielding media inquires for her toldvia email, “These are false and unverifiable accusations made for the purposes of deflecting from the true reasons for Dr. Wen’s departure, which were centered around philosophical differences and the direction of Planned Parenthood.”
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