A Midwest affiliate of the nation’s No. 1 killer of unborn children will pay $500,000 to settle a federal investigation into its alleged discriminatory practices, including promoting racial segregation.
Planned Parenthood of Illinois violated federal civil rights laws when it conducted training sessions in which the organization “segregated employees by race [and] subjected white employees to harassment,” according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The abortion provider also engaged in “disparate treatment against white employees regarding terms, conditions, and privileges of employment,” the EEOC discovered in its class investigation into “charges brought by multiple Planned Parenthood employees.”
Perhaps it comes as little surprise that the affiliate of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, founded by a woman who embraced the racist and discredited theories of eugenics, would be investigated on racial discrimination charges.
‘Affinity Caucuses’ And Segregation
The EEOC says the Illinois operation established required “affinity caucuses” segregated by race. Employees of races outside a caucus were prohibited from taking part, according to an EEOC press release. The leadership team also “demanded that all employees” participate in DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) education that included “harassing and derogatory statements” about white employees.
Among the sessions’ problematic mantras were the following assertions: White employees “do not feel racism the same way non-White patients feel,” and “white supremacy is exerted at every level of oppression (individual, interpersonal, organizational, and societal).” In other words, a veritable Marxist clinic inside the abortion mill.
“Segregating employees by race violates the core promise of our nation’s civil rights laws,” EEOC Chairwoman Andrea Lucas said in the press release. “Title VII guarantees equal treatment for every employee and prohibits race discrimination in America’s workplaces.”
“The alleged conduct violated the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, which prohibits race discrimination,” according to the release.
Based on the EEOC release, it sounds like Planned Parenthood Illinois was running a DEI cult. Each week, the abortion facility forced staffers to undergo reeducation sessions, lasting as long as two hours and consisting of “segregated racial affinity caucuses” or DEI propaganda. The Planned Parenthood affiliate also refused to give white employees time-off opportunities that it handed out to black employees, the agency said.
Civil rights protections cover white workers, too, despite what the DEI industry has falsely sold to American education, business, health care, and culture, particularly over the past decade.
“There is no DEI exception to Title VII’s requirements,” Lucas said. “Employers who deliberately separate workers or subject them to harassment because of their race, including white employees, violate federal law.”
‘Discrimination and Harassment’
“The EEOC reached an agreement with Planned Parenthood [of Illinois] through its administrative conciliation process,” the release said. An investigation found “reasonable cause to believe Planned Parenthood engaged in unlawful discrimination and harassment against white employees.”
In a statement to NPR, Planned Parenthood of Illinois president and CEO Adrienne White-Faines blamed previous leadership for running discriminatory workplace trainings and practices. Said leadership has been removed, according to the EEOC.
“In the time since this complaint was filed, and since I came on board as President and CEO in 2025, I have overseen significant change at the organization, including across the leadership team,” White-Faines said. “[Planned Parenthood of Illinois] has now come to an agreement with the EEOC about a path forward that will allow us to put this matter behind us and continue providing critical health care services to our valued patients from Illinois and across the country.”
‘DEI Cash Cow’
The radical ideologies of “white privilege” and systemic racism have made the peddlers of divisive DEI very rich. Spending on “DEI-related efforts” across the globe totalled $7.5 billion in 2020, and the number could soar to twice that amount this year, according to McKinsey & Company. Federal contractors made a mint off Biden administration executive orders and policies, City Journal reported in a piece headlined “DEI Cash Cow: The White House’s equity agenda was a boon to consulting firms.” According to the report:
[Biden’s] White House directed each federal agency to “implement or increase the availability of [DEI] training programs,” create “internal policies and procedures to support” employees “transitioning” to another gender, submit annual DEI plans and reports to a White House steering committee, establish “agency equity teams,” and appoint a “chief diversity officer” to oversee compliance.
Planned Parenthood has been a major trafficker in the cult of DEI, decrying Trump administration policies aimed at stopping federal taxpayer funds from going to the racist programs.
The EEOC says it will “continue to enforce these protections to ensure equal opportunity for all.”
“Employers have a responsibility to ensure compliance with Title VII and provide equal opportunity to all employees, regardless of race,” the agency’s press release states. “Actions taken in the context of DEI programming do not shield employers from liability if these actions involve unlawful racial harassment or disparate treatment.”
Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
