Poor Leana Wen. She took Planned Parenthood’s propaganda a little too seriously. And now she’s out of a job.
For the longest time, Planned Parenthood has insisted that it’s a health care organization and it only cares about abortion — supposedly a tiny share of its business — insofar as it’s a function of health care.
Whenever Republicans have threatened Planned Parenthood's funding over abortion, the response was, Abortion? Don't be silly. We are all about Pap tests and breast exams.
The hiring of Wen as president seemed the natural extension of this line of argument.