"Planned Parenthood of Illinois, an affiliate of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, has agreed to pay $500,000 to end a government investigation into charges of discrimination tied to the organization's diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
The settlement stems from charges investigated by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency tasked with investigating claims of discrimination in the private sector.
According to the EEOC, Planned Parenthood of Illinois violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it 'segregated employees by race, subjected white employees to harassment, and engaged in disparate treatment against white employees regarding terms, conditions, and privileges of employment.'
In a statement Thursday, EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas wrote that segregating employees by race violates 'the core promise of our nation's civil rights laws.'
'Title VII guarantees equal treatment for every employee and prohibits race discrimination in America's workplaces," she wrote. 'Those protections equally apply to white workers.'
The agency says its investigation was prompted by charges brought by multiple employees. It found Planned Parenthood required staff to attend, on a weekly basis, either sessions of 'affinity caucuses' segregated by race in which employees of other races were not allowed to participate, or DEI-related training sessions "which involved repeated harassing and derogatory statements targeting white employees, including that they 'are White and do not feel racism the same way non-White patients feel.'
Planned Parenthood of Illinois president and CEO Adrienne White-Faines acknowledged the settlement in a statement, noting the workplace trainings and practices took place under prior leadership."
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/19/nx-s1-5753911/eeoc-planned-parenthood-dei-settlement
"Safe and effective" pills to get rid of a baby ~
Abortion drugs make a pregnant woman go into labor, with cramping, to give birth to a dead or dying baby with bleeding and blood clots. A fetus is expelled that could still be technically alive and not completely yet dead.
According to the US federal government, this is legal. In fact, they give Planned Parenthood hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars every year.
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, a California/Nevada affiliate of the national sexual and reproductive healthcare provider, is now offering Botox. Stacy Cross, the organization's president and CEO says the goal is to raise money to keep the doors open at their 30 clinics. Fiorella Valdesolo explains the situation for @Allure.
RE: https://piaille.fr/@siltaer/116165505958087146
Women living in Europe can now have access to free abortion in any European country that offers it.
That includes transportation fees, medical procedure, follow-up.
Meanwhile, in the USA, "Land of Freedom"...
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Today in Labor History March 3, 1873: U.S. Congress enacted the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene literature and articles of immoral use" through the mail. This included any literature discussing birth control. The authorities imprisoned many birth control and free love advocates for violating the law, including Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #feminism #FreeSpeech #birthcontrol #abortion #emmagoldman #margaretsanger #prison #plannedparenthood #comstock #freelove
Idaho Republicans are trying to strip localities of nondiscrimination ordinances that protect LGBTQ+ people
I may have mentioned that Im having huge issues with the idea of filing federal taxes, but yet am open to do my state taxes
(I do not always agree/support things that Newsom does but I would be happy if my state taxes fed into efforts like this.)
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