Thanks to the persistent investigative work of young pro-life journalists, Planned Parenthood’s ruthless, money-grubbing colors are on full, fresh YouTube display. But as shocking as the illicit new videos from Live Action Films are, the routine, parental-authority-sabotaging advice the taxpayer-funded abortion racket gives teens every day deserves more front-page headline news, too.
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Live Action is a California-based “new media, investigative and educational organization committed to the protection and respect of all human life” led by Internet undercover pioneer Lila Rose. The group’s latest video footage at abortion clinics in Perth Amboy, N.J., the Bronx, and four cities in Virginia shows Planned Parenthood officials aiding and abetting individuals posing as criminal sex traffickers seeking abortions for underage girls.
Abortion activists first attacked the videos as “doctored,” then claimed they had already taken steps to rectify problems at the targeted clinics, then fired a worker after the tapes had been released, and finally denied any systemic failures while patting Planned Parenthood on the back for ordering new retraining measures for their employees this week.
Those who dismiss the scandal as an anomaly are in denial or abjectly ignorant.
In 2007, while an undergrad at UCLA, Rose visited a local campus Planned Parenthood clinic posing as a 14-year-old minor seeking an abortion after being impregnated by a 23-year-old man. California’s mandatory-reporting laws require abortion providers to report statutory rape involving girls under the age of 16. Rose secretly captured video of her visit in which the staff advised her to “figure out a birth date that works,” to obtain the abortion and avoid getting the man in trouble with the law. Instead of vowing to do more to protect girls from predators, Planned Parenthood threatened to sue Rose to shut her up.
That same year, a teenager came forward in Ohio to blow the whistle on how a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Cincinnati had ignored her cries for help after her father — who had been molesting her for three years from the age of 13 — forced her to have an abortion. She told an abortion staffer, who was required by state law to report suspected abuse to police. But the women’s-health provider so beloved by liberals on Capitol Hill did nothing.
Another Ohio teenage victim of sexual abuse filed suit against Planned Parenthood after the soccer coach who abused her at age 14 forced her to undergo an abortion. “Although she used a junior-high school I.D. and the coach, 21, paid with a credit card and driver’s license,” the Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune reported, “Planned Parenthood failed to report the abuse.”
Pro-choice radicals assert that butchers like Philadelphia Horror abortion doc Kermit Gosnell — charged along with his baby-killing death squad last month with multiple counts of murder, infanticide, conspiracy, abuse of corpse, theft, and other offenses — are an exception and that young girls and women who choose Planned Parenthood are “safe.”
Tell that to the Washington, D.C., family of 13-year-old Shantese Butler, who was left permanently injured and infertile after a botched Planned Parenthood abortion. Students for Life of America reported that Shantese was left with “severe abdominal bleeding, severe vaginal injury, severe injury to the cervix, significant uterine perforation and a small bowel tear.” In addition, parts of the unborn child were found inside Shantese’s abdomen.
And don’t forget the Nebraska Planned Parenthood clinic that refused to disclose the terms of a settlement with another victim whose botched abortion resulted in a perforated uterus, massive blood loss, an emergency hysterectomy, permanent infertility, seizures, and lifelong pain and suffering. According to the suit obtained by Life News, the woman told the abortionist and his assistants to stop, but was told: “We can’t stop.” The Planned Parenthood employees held her down to complete the procedure.
None of this is disclosed on Planned Parenthood’s informational website aimed at teenage girls, of course. Instead, the group aggressively advises pregnant girls under 18 on how to avoid telling their parents about visiting their abortion clinics through a process known as “judicial bypass.”
Through its “award winning” website Teenwire, Planned Parenthood ideologues normalize teen sexual activity, peddle their “family planning” services, whitewash the physical and moral consequences of abortion, downplay the long-term psychological consequences, and circumvent parental authority at every opportunity. What other enterprise receives taxpayer support to entice children to hide their health decisions from their own mothers and fathers?
Planned Parenthood is a $1 billion–plus business that rakes in one-third of its budget from government grants and contracts at both the state and federal levels. Congress has interrogated banking, energy, health insurance, tobacco, and oil execs — treating them like serial killers before the cameras. When will they finally defund a corrupt industry that has real blood on its hands?
1. Abortion is supposed to be a "private" decision, cloaked by the ersatz "right to privacy." So why are there any public monies being used for Planned Parenthood? Let those who support bloodletting have the blood on their hands, but get your bloody hands out of my pockets (and the pockets of other taxpayers)!
2. The gag order that has been in force since January 22, 1973, prohibiting vigorous discussion of the nonsense called Roe et al. v. Wade has also sanctioned a legal regime where abortion is outside the realm of all other legal norms. No school nurse would give a kid an aspirin without parental consent .... but your State, with the collusion of Planned Parenthood and usually some judge, is quite willing to give her an abortion. Of course, when the child is wounded or even dies, I don't think it's the successors of Margaret Sanger that are going to sit or mourn with you.
3. Huge kudos to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who excised Planned Parenthood money from the State's deficit-ridden budget, then vetoed the craven attempt of New Jersey Democrats to put the money back in.
The evil of abx will probably be around in the future, like any other evil. It will exist in ignorance by one party and profit for another. However, the use of ultrasound equipment and hearing fetal heart tones educates mothers on the reality PPH does not want them to know: it's a real live baby.
Defund PP - now! And let's not forget the war on crisis pregnancy centers being carried out by the New York City Council. They want to shut them down because they actually discuss the possibility of giving birth or putting a baby up for adoption. They also treat young women with dignity, love and respect and believe in their potential to grow. Not so for Planned Parenthood: the only option for them is abortion. Oh, it's "all about women's health . . . blah blah blah" - not! Shame on the abortion enablers. They are enabling lazy men and predators.
"Money grubbing" is a weird way to describe a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Does the president of Planned Parenthood have a fancy condo in NYC or something?
just to make a point- not a single federal dollar that does to PP can be used for abortion. You are forgetting that the PP is also one of the biggest providers of contraceptives and education on how to use contraceptives in the country. Y shouldn't that be funded?
If one has nothing to do with the other, then let Planned Parenthood divide up the two divisions, so that the non-abortion providing entity can keep receiving tax dollars.
Planned parenthood should not be fundeded at all because:
1. Money "not going to provide abortions" is used for all the other indirect costs for an organization whose predominant activity is in fact to provide abortions.
2. Even if contraception and "counceling" is all that they provided, FEDERAL money should not be spent for that. We do not want to subsidize activity that has been clearly shown to de-stabilize society (out-of-wedlock sexual activity). Disagree- please show me one study that gives the benefit to this behavior to society overall. There are many studies showing the damage.
3. Our FEDERAL government needs to reduce and/or eliminate spending that does not promote the common welfare, profide for common defence, etc.
Go through Door A for abortion services; Go through Door B for all other services. But out back the staff counts all the money.
True, separate ledgers can be kept. But if an account runs a surplus, there are ways like allocation of administrative costs to move the money where it will do the most good.
Whether you approve of Planned Parenthood or not, think of it as one organization.
If our nation somehow manages to survive other critical challenges and regain its economic footing, eventually abortion will go the way of slavery; an abominable, inhuman practice once legal and protected by the full force of government will be relegated to the trash dump of history. This I call yet another enlightenment, and it will come.
MikeB, since you ask, the president of PP, Cecile Richards, has a salary of $240,000 a year. And a budget of over one billion dollars. Pretty good for a non profit while crisis pregnancy centers operate on shoe string budgets and are under attack by people such as yourself who support the abortion agenda, and by the New York City Council, who are tools of the operation industry.
Alice, that's nothing in NYC. You need twice that to have a bedroom for each kid, a car in a garage, taxis occasionally, and occasional dinners out (nothing extravagant).
MikeB, Cecile Richards happens to be the daughter of Ann Richards, the former governor of Texas, and the family has a lot of money. For those of us who earn under $240,000 that is a lot of money. Mike, I think that you have a stake in the abortion industry since you shill vociferously in its support. And your comebacks are inane.
Alice, are you saying you think I have a financial interest in an abortion facility, whether direct or indirect? Or that I profit financially if more abortions are performed?
Do you speculate like this all the time, just like the crawler on Fox News?
Another inane response from MikeB - when he doesn't really have an answer, throw up (and most of what he says does make me throw up) another red herring. Please connect "Fox News and crawlers" to the debate of federal funding being denied to PP.
Also link why living in NY is so expensive and how Richards needs this salary, one-third of which is provided by federal fund.
I'll be happy to connect Fox News crawlers to what Alice asked.
First of all, there's no reason -- none -- to assume I have anything but a political interest in the abortion issue. And as a matter of fact, I have no financial interest, directly or indirectly, save the interst we all share as taxpayers. I have no connection with abortion providers whatsoever. No stake. None.
Likewise, the Fox News crawler will make suggestions when there's no reason to. Look for them -- they're usually the ones with the question marks. The most recent one I recall was on Fox Business, not Fox News. There's a New York City councilmember who charged that the sanitation union purposely slowed down its response to the 12/27 blizzard. The caption read: "NY Times blaming the messenger?" As a matter of fact, yes. The New York Times ran a story calling the councilman's credibility into question. Here it is:
The news story IS the councilman's credibility. But we know that to run a crawler, "NY Times Blaming the Messenger?" is to imply that there's something wrong with calling out the messenger here. And, of course, had you seen the segment, you would not know that, of the five people who this clown claimed told him about a slowdown, two denied it, and he won't name the other three due to "attorney-client privilege," which doesn't apply because if those three actually existed, they didn't approach the councilmember seeking legal representation or advice. That was the point of the Times story -- to blame the messenger because there was evidence the messenger was blameworthy. The impression to be conveyed by the Fox crawler? "Shame on the liberal media for blaming the messenger."
Please, MB, please stay on point. You'll have a lot more credibility if you do.
But if you continue to try to poke your finger into the eye of those you dislike, even when they have nothing to do with the issue at hand, you'll lose everyone.
Try again.
There's nothing in the bible about abortion, so it's not religion. In fact, child killing is featured quite nicely (and condoned) in the bible. Let's not go there. Conservatives certainly aren't against killing in general.
If someone from a faraway planet came down and tried to understand the political stripes of this country, they would wonder why small-government, libertarian-leaning conservatives (the main line of NRO commenters) want any government incursion at all into abortion - and to a lesser extent, gay marriage.
You opened your participation in this forum with a declaration: PP is a charitable organization. Then you address Ms. Richards' compensation with the insinuation that $240K is not exactly extravegant pay. That's good.
Problem is neither you nor your counterpart bothered to check your facts against the most recent public disclosure. In fact, Ms. Richards received $384,000 in compensation from PP and affiliates.
Credibility derives from more than just fact checking. It derives from the discipline to withhold comment until you do.
Worse, you go completely off topic and poke a finger in the eye of Fox News.
Why??
