
After a recent outrage over a Texas medical board director working for Planned Parenthood, it got Students for Life of America (SFLA) thinking and asking the questions the abortion media shies away from:
Is there confusion about medical care post-Dobbs because Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry have infiltrated the profession?
Since the Dobbs decision put an end to Roe, many so-called “medical professionals” seem to have forgotten how to be a doctor.

This has been particularly egregious on the issue of how to save a mother’s life when having an emergency in pregnancy and how to treat a woman who has suffered a miscarriage. The media and abortion zealots keep saying it’s so confusing.
READ: This New Year, Look at the Abortion Media’s Biggest 2024 Narratives – And When We Debunked Them
Let’s break this down. First, regarding saving the life of the mother: This is NOT an act of intentional abortion. The goal entails saving TWO lives, not ending one. Sometimes, when maternal /fetal separation takes place, one person won’t survive. It remains a potential and unfortunate reality, but at least there was considerable effort to save both.
We move on to miscarriage care: It is NOT an act of abortion to treat a woman whose child has died, and to pretend that using a procedure to clean out a womb when a baby has died is controversial, scares women, and hides the truth about what is taking place.
State-based medical boards COULD clear up any confusion if they wanted to. Still, in some cases, they have been a part of the problem, acting as though the standard practices of the last 50 years are suddenly mysterious and confusing and then advocating for more abortion to end that confusion.

Take a quick look at the purpose and background of medical boards.
AMA JOURNAL OF ETHICS: State medical boards are the agencies that license medical doctors, investigate complaints, discipline physicians who violate the Medical Practice Act, and refer physicians for evaluation and rehabilitation when appropriate. The overriding mission of medical boards is to serve the public by protecting them from incompetent, unprofessional, and improperly trained physicians. Medical boards accomplish this by ensuring that only qualified physicians are licensed to practice medicine and that those physicians provide their patients with a high standard of care.
As you can see, the board’s purpose is to ensure that doctors are operating competently.
Let’s come back to Texas, where we learned that the director of the Texas medical board, “Robert Bredt, had also been working for Planned Parenthood for over a decade, since 2011,” media reports note. This is not only shocking to some legislators, but it also comes as Texas legislators have been subjected to extensive media pressure to relent on their pro-life views. (Example, NPR: Texas Medical Board faces backlash over lack of clarity around abortion ban exception)
As recently as August 2024, the Baker Institute for Public Policy, in a report titled Physicians’ Rights and Patients’ Safety: Protecting Miscarriage Care Access in Texas, noted that the state’s medical board could alleviate confusion.
They wrote, “To address this, we recommend the Texas Medical Board clarify standards for medical procedures used to treat miscarriage, which involve abortion-inducing medications and operations, and the creation of a Continuing Medical Education (CME) module to keep physicians up-to-date on these policies.”

Call me a cynic, but Planned Parenthood’s flunk likely had no incentive to do his job and help people treat women when Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals model would encourage chaos to achieve a political end. In this case, that’s more abortion.
Now that we’ve clarified what many pro-abortion medical professionals won’t, what can we do to fix this confusion at a legislative level permanently?
Every pro-life legislator, governor, and attorney general should investigate the people on state medical boards to determine whether abortion advocates are prioritizing abortion over patient safety and the board’s duty to clarify the law so that doctors know what to do when lives are on the line. Is Planned Parenthood undermining the work of medical boards by failing to provide the proper counsel to force abortion? Is abortion industry engagement CAUSING confusion over miscarriage care?
The pro-life movement must encourage legislative investigation to answer these questions and find out if the abortion industry has infiltrated objective medical boards.
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