Daily News | A South Jersey nurse practitioner is suing Planned Parenthood alleging race discrimination. Her case is one of many against the reproductive health giant.
“If we can’t count on Planned Parenthood to respect Black employees, how can we count on them to care for people of color as patients?” said Valerie Shore, Fisher’s attorney in New Jersey.Repeat instances of discrimination
A lab manager in Texas was repeatedly berated by her supervisor, whose criticism often centered on her Vietnamese heritage. “It’s so annoying that you can’t speak English,” the manager once screamed at her, she said in a complaint filed in 2019. The Planned Parenthood affiliate settled the case with undisclosed terms.
Numerous complaints that spur legal action suggest the organization isn’t doing enough to train employees on racism and bias when they are hired, said Eve J. Higginbotham, the vice dean for inclusion and diversity at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Fisher, who has worked as a nurse practitioner for 16 years, alleges that she was harassed and intimidated for asking questions about medical protocol and patient cases, while her own medical expertise was discounted. When she complained, she was called a “pain in the ass,” according to court records.
“I just felt like my little voice wasn’t going to make a difference,” Jeffers said. Fisher’s lawsuit made her feel empowered to speak out, more than two years later, she said.Many abortion providers say they chose their specialty out of fear that if they didn’t, patients would go without care.
“By privileging whiteness, we’ve contributed to America harming Black women and other women of color,” McGill Johnson wrote. “We are committed to confronting any white supremacy in our own organization, and across the movement for reproductive freedom.” She broke down in tears when, in front of colleagues at a team retreat, her supervisor accused her of being hostile and having a “snarky look” on her face, she alleges in the lawsuit.
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