Planned Parenthood Has Ousted Its President, Leana Wen, In A Dispute Over The Organization's Direction
Planned Parenthood President Leana Wen, the first physician to head the women’s health care group in 50 years, said she was removed from her position by the organization’s board “at a,” following months of internal concerns that she was steering the group away from a political focus.
Wen and Planned Parenthood were involved in weeks of negotiations around her departure, and the board announced internally the meeting a week ago, according to a source familiar with the matter. Wen was told she could resign, the source said, but she would not. "She walked in and hired people in very senior leadership roles who knew nothing about Planned Parenthood," the former senior staffer added.
“It’s a symbol of fatigue, the battle has been a tough one and they’re tired,” Hank Sheinkopf, a veteran Democratic campaign consultant who worked with former president Bill Clinton and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, told BuzzFeed News in January. “If you publicly project that you’re no longer an advocate but a provider of medical services, the presumption is the bad guys will no longer beat you up because you’re no longer poking a stick in their eyes all the time.
Planned Parenthood repeatedly asserted that it was not changing direction under Wen and Schifeling and Wallace both said their departures were unrelated to any shift at the organization under her leadership. In response to BuzzFeed News’s reporting, Wen insisted in athat Planned Parenthood’s “core mission is providing, protecting and expanding access to abortion and reproductive health care. We will never back down from that fight.
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