Dr. Leana Wen is the new president of Planned Parenthood replacing the controversial Cecile Richards at the head of the organization founded by racist eugenicist Margaret Sanger. Richards presided over the organization during one of its most disgraceful scandals – the selling of fetal body parts for medical experimentation. It is widely speculated that Richards is planning a run for office.
Wen has an interesting personal narrative, as they say. She was born in China in 1983 – at a time when prolife President Reagan was in his third year in office – and brought to America by her parents as asylum seekers when she was 8 years old. She has a distinguished academic career, graduating Summa Cum Laude from California State University at that age of 18. She received a Doctor of Medicine from the Washington School of Medicine and has two Master’s degrees, one in Modern Chinese studies and the other in economic and social history from Merton College in Oxford, England where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She also met her future husband, Sebastian Walker, during her time in England.
No getting around, it, Wen is one smart lady.
Just as some lawyers focus on lawyering and others trend toward politics and public policy, the same can be said for medical doctors – such as the current Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson and a scattering of medical practitioners who have served in Congress.
When Wen was faced with that decision, she opted for the public policy/political path when Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake appointed Wen as the city’s health commissioner. Wen left her job in Baltimore to take over the reins of Planned Parenthood in November of 2018.
There are three elements of Wen’s life and career that make her as America’s number one promoter of abortions – her longstanding left-leaning political views, her frequent focus on women’s medical issues and her ethnic background.
Wen’s left-wing political views are a matter of history and record. She has most frequently been used by Democrats as the voice of their political policies. She has been given platforms by Congressman
Elijah Cummings and President Barack Obama.
Wen’s emphasis on women’s health issues was seen in her residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, adjacent to Harvard University. She is a regular contributor to the gender-leaning Huffington Post. She frequently speaks and writes about women’s health.
Then there is the issue of her ethnic background. Normally, that would be irrelevant – especially since she came to America as a young girl – although obviously and unusually mature in her knowledge and thinking to have graduated from college at an age when most were graduating from high school.
Wen was raised in a family and initially in a society where abortion is not only legal, it is officially promoted and supported by the government. In many cases, the abortions are the result of pressure or force – not much different than Planned Parenthood in Sanger’s day when southern Democrat administrations promoted abortion as a form of genocide. In the case of China, it was justified as a method to control population. Ironically, it was the unborn females that were the preferred abortees – leaving China today with a shortage of women.
For Wen and her family, abortion was not morally wrong, but a good public policy. Wen’s continued devotion to Chinese culture – obviously including abortion – is seen in her decision to gain one of her master degrees in Chinese history and the fact that she currently serves on the China Medical Board, which provides health advocacy services to the Middle Kingdom and throughout Southeast Asia.
As with all abortion proponents, Wen creates a false equivalence between the number of currently legal abortions and the number of women who did – or would again – seek the proverbial “back alley abortions.” The only real issue is whether the human fetus as right and protections as a member of a civilized society. When it comes to fundamental moral issues enshrined in law, we do not make the errant behavior legal just because people break the law. Even considering those who might break the law – and the even fewer who will suffer medical complications, including death, it is not morally sound to sacrifice tens of millions of healthy and viable fetus as a means of absolving those who would break the law at their own risk.
Wen proffers the argument that the abortion restriction laws are an attempt by some imaginary patriarchy attempting to subjugate women. That may have political gravitas with the radical feminist, but it is simply a bogus and divisive argument.
But Wen goes even further in her pushback against the growing number of laws restricting and selectively outlawing abortions by claiming they are an assault on all of a woman’s. She claims that it is an assault on women’s full range of health issues – the many other health services provided by Planned Parenthood. That is the argument of a propagandist, not medical practitioner. It is designed to recruit prolife women – or at least those uncertain of their position — to the cause. She claims the laws are an assault on a woman’s “bodily economy” – whatever the hell that mean.
With most Americans opposed to late-term abortion, Wen is quick to note that the vast majority of abortions occur within the first 21 weeks. Of course, that still is not justification for the thousands of late -term abortions and even those out-of-the-womb “abortions – better known as infanticide.
Wen claims that there are no laws – other than abortion restrictions – that regulate healthcare. Yep! She actually said that. For someone who has been in the medical field all her life, she must know that healthcare is among the MOST regulated facets of our daily life. Geez!
Wen is the first medical doctor to head Planned Parenthood in more than 50 years – virtually from the time that Roe v. Wade was decided by the Supreme Court. For many Americans, this puts her at odds with the Hippocratic Oath to never to do harm. Ironically, she now heads an organization one of the main purposes of which is to terminate human life. There is something very wrong about that.
So, there ‘tis.
It appears that Doctor Wen’s indoctrinated leftist views override her celebrated intelligence. Sometime, between 20 and 30, we should all challenge the views that have been ingrained since childhood. I am not encouraging rebellion, but at some point in out search for self, we have to test all that we take for granted, if ever we hope to grow as individuals. Nobody loves or honor their parents, more than I, but we differ greatly on personal ideology. I am appalled at the throngs of adults that dogmatically follow the views and political party affiliations of friends and relatives, without ever having considered why.
ABORTION IS MURDER, NO MATTER HOW YOU DISCUSS IT.
It is not Planned Parenthood issue…it is so called “American People” issue, assuming that it is really the Country run…by the People… for the People….etc. sad!…sad!…sad!
What a waste of a brilliant mind.
All that education and medical training and knowledge,yet, this is where all of that has landed Dr. Wen.
A medical Doctor in the USA that not only supports and promotes Abortion,but, now will run the organization that performs the most Abortions in the USA.
Obviously, she sees nothing wrong with this even though it goes directly against the oath to do no harm. That is an oath that commits medical Doctors to preserve life, ALWAYS, when preserving life is possible.
So, already, we know she is a hipocryt.
Roe v Wade was a bad SCOTUS decision and I hope it is soon to be overturned.
Material education is only secondary to moral formation, something rare in Chinese society and increasingly lacking in so-called enlightened western culture. Sad to say it but Wen is a perfect fit for the moral vortex dominating many aspects of the American political discussion. All I can say, is that Herod has a more consistent and coherent argument than most Americans at this time concerning the death of innocents.
Amén. Life is precious! It is a gift from above. Believe it!
Good article!
The only reason 99% of men support abortion is so that they won’t have to be responsible for their bastard child beyond the small cost of an abortion.
Abortion allows these men to be He-whores to sleep with multiple women without the worry.
Many also go to pro-abortion rallies to seek out loose women who are highly likely to abort when they irresponsibly get pregnant!