Contributor: ATTWN Staff
Key Takeaways:
- Former Planned Parenthood employees continue to reveal the toxic work environments at their clinics.
- Former employees wanted to help women, but realized that wasn’t the goal of Planned Parenthood.
- Former employees insist management and environment are toxic.
In another episode of “Why I Don’t Work at Planned Parenthood Anymore”, a former employee at Planned Parenthood North Central States, which has locations in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and South Dakota, has revealed that one of the biggest reasons she left was that she realized that the priority for Planned Parenthood was to see as many patients as possible and that she was concerned “that it compromises the quality of care.”
When this former employee, Addie Evans, brought her concerns to management, she said that “these situations became confrontational. She was asked not to communicate with other staff members and to present a united front. After voicing her dissent, she said she was labeled a troublemaker and her situation deteriorated rapidly.”
Nothing New
Earlier in 2025, the New York Times ran an expose on Planned Parenthood that revealed similar concerns and even worse ones that dealt with toxic management, dirty clinics with sewage seepage into rooms, and underpaid and overworked staff.
Another complaint filed against Planned Parenthood Southeast alleges similar things in those clinics as well as management incompetence. That complaint was investigated by a third party and found to be without merit, but former employees are rejecting the findings. The results of the investigation have not been made public.
In that complaint, Save PPSE, the organization of former employees that alleged wrongdoing, has said “that [PPSE Interim CEO Mairo] Akposé, who started as a human resources consultant and rose through the ranks within a year, has engaged in retaliatory layoffs and hired workers with little to no experience in nonprofits.”
Evans’ story is fraught with these kinds of allegations as well. The bottom line is that she realized that Planned Parenthood’s goal of seeing as many patients as possible compromises quality of care. The reporter spoke to multiple former employees at Planned Parenthood North Central States, and they all had similar concerns (these bullet points are direct quotes from the story):
- A former employee who left Planned Parenthood North Central States in the summer of 2024 after nearly a decade of working at clinics in the Twin Cities said the organization consistently operates on the brink of crisis; they believe this environment allows inappropriate behavior among management to be overlooked.
- A former employee, who asked to remain anonymous, submitted three separate complaints to human resources about how a manager was treating people in her department…“There has been no accountability, no effort to stop the damage. Just willful, complicit silence,” she wrote in a mass email to her colleagues on her last day of work. “I could give specific examples, but HR has allowed this to continue, so it must be okay to come to work and be threatened, harassed, belittled, and degraded.”
- Melissa Forsyth, former senior director of health centers at Planned Parenthood North Central States, had to escort Evans out of the Mankato health center on Evans’s last day. Seven months later, she would be escorted out herself, following a layoff. Forsyth, who was also interviewed for the Flatwater Free Press story, described the workplace culture as “terrible” and “increasingly toxic.”
“Planned Parenthood will go away.”
Evans eventually tells the reporter that “I do believe that Planned Parenthood will go away….” She thinks that it is because the nonprofit does not put patients and staff first.
“Of course they don’t,” said Abby Johnson, former Planned Parenthood director. “Planned Parenthood’s entire business model is built on convincing as many women as possible to have an abortion – or multiple abortions – and to drill that mentality into the minds of their employees. Women deserve so much better than this. Abortion clinic workers deserve so much better than this.”
Planned Parenthood is going away, mainly because they refuse to give up abortion, and federal funding has been pulled from its clinics due to that refusal.
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