As a millennial in support of Planned Parenthood, I’m disheartened by the latest baseless attacks on the organization. A video released July 21 shows extremists posing as health care workers and badgering a longtime physician for hours, trying to get her to discuss unethical and criminal activity that she doesn’t engage in or know anything about. There is nothing in these videos that suggest any violation of law. These tapes are heavily doctored, and the full tapes show that charges that Planned Parenthood profits from women’s decisions to donate fetal tissue are false and outrageous.

Planned Parenthood has provided high-quality care in our community for nearly 100 years, and I know firsthand that nothing is more important to them than the health and safety of their patients. This campaign is part of a decade-long campaign of deceiving the public, making false charges, and terrorizing women and their doctors, all in order to ban abortion and cut women off from critical care at Planned Parenthood. 

Joey Mercado

New London