April 7, 2025
Just recently, as reported by The Washington Times, Texas Medical Board Director Dr. Robert Bredt resigned after the truth was brought to light that for 13 years while serving as director… he was also a part-time director at a San Antonio laboratory for Planned Parenthood.
If a medical board director who has sworn to do no harm to patients also works at a baby butcher-mill, it makes you wonder… how many other Planned Parenthood die-hards serve on the medical boards of other states?
As it turns out, “policing the industry” and then turning around to aid in the violent killing of preborn babies at Planned Parenthood has ruffled some Texas feathers.
“We can’t keep letting the fox guard the henhouse,” Texas Republican Rep. Harrison told the Washington Times. “This was a profound conflict of interest because the Texas Medical Board regulates Planned Parenthood doctors in a state that has been pro-life for decades.”
In a letter to Texas Gov. Greg Abbot, two State House Members, Rep. Brian Harrison and Rep. Briscoe Cain (who is an SFLA alumnus), demanded his resignation as working for Planned Parenthood is a conflict of interest (insert screenshot).
“Texans cannot have confidence in the decisions of a government bureaucrat who affiliates with a criminal enterprise that profits off of killing babies,” said Cain, R-Deer Park, in a letter to the Texas Medical Board.
“Texas should be leading the fight against Planned Parenthood – not employing them,” tweeted Rep. Brian Harrison. “Respectfully asking Gov @GregAbbott_TX to have all Planned Parenthood officials removed from state agencies, especially the one regulating healthcare as Medical Director of Texas Medical Board.”
Texas refuses to put up with the double life in its medical board leadership, and other states ought to follow suit. Planned Parenthood isn’t a hospital. It is not an emergency room or even a clinic. It’s an execution conveyor chain that profits from the bloody killing of innocent preborn babies.
When your “practice” focuses on ending patient lives, you are no longer doing medicine. When “serving patients” means the barbaric decapitation of tiny humans to keep the lights on, you’re doing medicine wrong. Caring for patients should not involve crushing skulls and scraping out arms, legs, and toes out of their mother’s wombs- but at Planned Parenthood, that’s “healthcare.”
At Students for Life Action, we challenge Governors, Attorneys General, and legislators across the country to carefully examine their medical boards to assess if their leadership has similar conflicts of interest.
For quite some time, we’ve called for these investigations. Previously, we reported that: “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.”
Being involved with Planned Parenthood and then turning around to serve as a state medical director is unacceptable corruption. Dr. Robert Bredt’s compromised leadership hurt patients and undermined ethical accountability for “practices” like Planned Parenthood who are already expert at harming clients and skirting liability.
Real medicine does not kill; it heals and restores. Governors and Attorneys General across the country should investigate the members of their medical boards to see if they have ties to Planned Parenthood which would compromise their ethical integrity.