Affiliate: Planned Parenthood Los Angeles
Locations: 7. Covered here: 7
California investigates individual complaints but does not do full health inspections.
Patients who feel a need to file a complaint:
How to File a Complaint with the California Medical Board
Los Angeles
unknown center
Case 1: Lenihan
Article from The New York Times
Diocese Pays $1.2 Million In Sex Lawsuit
April 2, 2002
Excerpt:
A California woman who accused a priest of sexually abusing her and then paying for an abortion when she was a teenager will receive $1.2 million to settle her suit against the Roman Catholic Church, the two sides said yesterday.
The woman . . . said that in 1978, when she was 14, the priest . . . began a pattern of abuse that lasted throughout much of her adolescence. The contact began with fondling and kissing, she said, culminating in her pregnancy at 16.
”When I told him about the pregnancy, he told me that I had to get an abortion . . . Father John drove me to his bank, withdrew the money and gave it to me to pay for the abortion. Father John did not go with me to Planned Parenthood. I remember how alone and scared I felt.”
Note
Though the successful lawsuit was against the church, Planned Parenthood also allowed the abuse to continue since they apparently never reported; if they had, the abuse would have stopped earlier.
Case 2: Ramirez
The document doesn’t specify which Planned Parenthood center was involved, but the appeal is to the Los Angeles circuit, so we place it on this page.
Appeals Court Document:
Response of prosecutors when defendant appealed aspects of the verdict
Excerpts:
. . . The undisputed evidence in this case established beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant continued to have sexual intercourse with his 13-year-old Daughter . . .
BACKGROUND
. . . In July of 2010, K.R. [the daughter] had an abortion at a Planned Parenthood clinic. She did not tell the clinic staff that defendant had impregnated her, but instead made up a story about having a boyfriend her own age. The doctor told her not to have sex for three weeks after her abortion. Although she relayed this information to defendant, he resumed having sex with her a “couple of days later.”
By December of 2010, defendant had again impregnated K.R. and she returned to Planned Parenthood for another abortion. The physician who performed the second abortion testified that K.R. was approximately six weeks pregnant. After the abortion, he implanted an intrauterine device to prevent additional pregnancies.
K.R. testified that she did not have sex with anyone other than defendant during the time she lived with him.
Defendant was arrested on or before March 16, 2011, after J.R.[K.R.’s older sister] reported his conduct toward her to the police.
Los Angeles
(entire city)
Excerpts:
8. . . . Plaintiff was the first African American male employee to ever be hired in his particular department by PPLA, and was the first such minority to hold his specific position.
12. Among other things, as alleged below, Plaintiff refused to engage in PPLA promotional practices that were intended to deceive the African American community in South Los Angeles . . . Plaintiff, an African American, was not comfortable being forced to misrepresent facts to other similarly situated persons.
13. During this same time period, PPLA was also engaged in other activities having a deleterious effect on African American persons, including Plaintiff’s fellow employee, one Nick Nkwuda, an African immigrant. Specifically, in or around January of 2004, Mr. Nkwuda was referred to as a “nigger.” PPLA’s management did nothing to punish the management employee who used such degrading language toward an employee similarly situated to Plaintiff in terms of minority status . . .
14. In fact, throughout 2003 and most of 2004, PPLA had created and allowed the continuation of an environment that was hostile toward African American and other minority employees, especially male employees. A female accounting supervisor referred to male employees in position of authority and officers of the company as “dickheads,” and other derogatory terms, constantly defaming and engaging in confrontational behavior which was known throughout and brought to the attention of Human Resources and the interim and permanent CEO and President of PPLA. These terms were most often uttered by the female executive management of PPLA.
15. At the time of Plaintiff’s employment, PPLA’s white, female management staff also caused openly discriminatory comments and representations to be made that would have made a reasonable person feel uncomfortable . . .
16. The various circumstances described above created an environment that was racist and sexist in tone, policy and practice. These practices have not been abated by PPLA and continue to cause harm to individuals employed by PPLA. PPLA is the subject of multiple verified complaints having been filed with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing within the last six months.
Jones Complaint (same case as above)
Excerpt:
18. On or about May 10, 2004, Plaintiff specifically noted and again placed Defendant PPLA on notice of “accounting miscues, angry patients, and disgruntled gatekeepers,” all of which relate to programs overseen and administered by the other Defendants. Unbeknownst to the Plaintiff, PPLA had already received negative independent “single audit” findings prior to April 2004, a condition that was brought to the attention of the PPLA Board members by their independent auditors for a number of years past. PPLA’s accountants had to reconstruct the books of record of the company, its General Ledger, fund accounting coding, and sub-ledgers . . . In fact, Ms. Swiller formerly acknowledged in her memorandum that ‘…PPLA [financial] systems were non functional to barely functional.’ Moreover, certain members of the PPLA Board actively sought to conceal the findings from funding sources . . . During Plaintiff’s tenure there were indeed serious financial control lapses affecting the truth and accuracy of statements made to the official defendants named herein, and federal funding sources (i.e., Title X).
Jones Complaint (same case as above)
Excerpts:
20. Plaintiff was terminated on June 3, 2004, directly because of his complaints about financial impropriety and misleading accounting information related to the Ujima Project and a
“reproductive health center” that was to be built in South Los Angeles.
22. During the course of his employment, Plaintiff was caused to work for PPLA often in excess of 40 hours per week. PPLA did not pay overtime as required by law during this period of employment in violation of labor standards and regulations.
23. During the course of his employment, Plaintiff contributed to what he believed to be a qualified retirement plan. All to the detriment of Plaintiff and other employees, at various times, Defendant PPLA mishandled funds relating to employee retirement and cafeteria accounts maintained for the benefit of Plaintiff and other employees . . .
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Temporarily Closed
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Lopez
Article from The Los Angeles Times:
Clinic, Doctor Faulted in Abortion Death
by Steve Hymon, Staff Writer, June 25, 2003
Excerpt:
A 25-year-old woman bled to death last year after a Planned Parenthood clinic in East Los Angeles neglected to follow established medical procedures during an abortion, according to a report by the state Department of Health Services. The report also found that the clinic failed to report Diana Lopez’s death within 24 hours, as required, and that a doctor working there did not follow clinic policies that would have excluded the woman as a candidate for the procedure. . .
Among the most serious allegations in the state report is that Maltzer violated clinic procedure because he went forward with the abortion even though Lopez’s hemoglobin levels were below the clinic’s standards. Low hemoglobin levels often lead to increased bleeding. The report also states that Maltzer did not follow the clinic’s standards in waiting until Lopez was sufficiently dilated before the procedure.
The clinic did not report Lopez’s death to the state until a week later, even though such notification is supposed to be done within 24 hours, the report said.
The report also found that Planned Parenthood’s patient records lacked basic information on Lopez’s care and condition. . . .
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