Curious that at first there was a stream of pro-PP posters spinning it as an 'isolated incident', griping about edited footage, and referencing James O'Keefe... and now they're silent.

Maybe some of the outraged could clarify what they would have liked to see the clinic workers do? Tell the fake p*** they refused to give medical treatment to prostitutes? Make a citizen's arrest and hold the fake p*** in a headlock while they called the police? Play along with the fake p*** until he left, then go report the visit to the authorities?

Well the workers may have done the latter. PP claims it reported many of these visits to the FBI. The videos wouldn't show that, of course..

The problem with entrapping people with hoaxes and hidden cameras is that you don't know what the entrapped person was really thinking. After all, if the hoaxer is lying throughout the video, how do we know the clinic worker isn't just playing along -- either because she realizes it's a hoax or she plans to report it later?

Thought experiment: Say Lila Rose and her partner (the man in the video) only hoaxed one PP clinic, and at the end of the visit they accidentally left their hidden camera behind. Say the next patient in the room found the camera, took it home, and watched it. What would that person assume?

They would assume the clinic worker offered medical treatment to underage prostitutes. They would also assume the man in the video was really a p*** running an underage prostitution ring. And they would probably assume whoever took the video (Rose) was really a prostitute.

If they had the full context they would know at least two of those assumptions were false -- possibly all three.

We don't really know what these videos show until we know what the workers did afterward.

PS: NRO, we can't write "p***"? Really? We're not children.

@redfate,
Your comments almost made me puke. Who's side are you on? Do you have kids?
first of all they were asking about services for UNDERAGE prostitutes NOT of legal age prostitutes (even tho prostitution is illegal in most states?)
"you don't know what the entrapped person was really thinking" I am guessing they think these are real people not fake. So in any instance WHY wouldn't a PP emp. simply excuse themselves from the interview and report them to a supervisor immediately? Ever hear of a citizens arrest, they could have done that. Child prostitution is ILLEGAL, so PP appears to support such activity?

"and if I'm correct, the ones that were posted today were all reported to the FBI, right?"
Did PP make that claim before or after the videos were posted?

As I said in the post from 10pm last night, if PP really reports these shouldn't they have come out and said the OTHER ones they reported? Methinks PP is full of it.

Sandy, you "guess" a lot of stuff.

Read this. External Link 

PP stated it knew of visits to at least 11 clinics -- this was several day ago, when only one video had been released.

That means in 11 cases the clinic workers did report the fake sex ring to their bosses after they were videotaped. How do we know the videos released today weren't some of those 11 cases? We don't.

Aside from that, I don't think you know very much about how underage prostitution works in this country. It isn't a case of little girls chained up in dungeons just waiting to be rescued. In most cases the p***'s spend years breaking down the girls' confidence and pumping them full of drugs until they don't WANT to be rescued. Nine times out of ten the girls are U.S. born runaways with terrible family lives, who think they have nowhere else to go.

Getting minors out of the sex trade is notoriously difficult. Police sometimes find pretense to arrest the girls just to get them off the streets for a night or two. The girls often go straight back to their p*** once they're out of jail. Regular youth and homeless shelters don't work at all. The girls simply runaway.

You can count on one hand the number of shelters in this country that have been effective in rehabilitating child prostitutes. They essentially function as second families for the girls and are extremely expensive to operate.

(How do I know this? Because I've done reporting on child trafficking for my newspaper, talking to FBI agents, police and social workers who try to help these girls.)

Child prostitution is not as rare as you'd think, either. There is no way to count the numbers of girls and boys in the sex trade because most of them hide. The only study to attempt to estimate the total, conducted 10 years ago, figured around 200,000 girls and boys worked as prostitutes in the US.

I don't know what these clinic workers did after the hoaxers left, or what their reasoning was. But I wouldn't immediately condemn them if their first instinct was to arrange treatment for the children. That's about 100% more likely to do the children some good than running out of the room and reporting that a p*** whose name you don't know said there were children, somewhere, working as prostitutes.

Or let's just defund PP because prostitutes and abortion = bad and OMG, the children!

I hope K-Lo reads redfate's comments.

Accurately informing people of the laws is not an "institutional problem" nor is trying to provide medical support to vulnerable people who are otherwise out of reach (these children, who obviously need help).

The real "institutional problem" is us - we have (through our elected government) no real answer to child trafficking, and yet we spend an inordinate amount of money running a "revolving door" system - a system that rarely gives the victims the type of support to get out of the sad circumstances these children are stuck in. It's also a societal problem that these children were not given the help they needed *before* they became drug addicted slaves, such as in their families, their churches, and in their schools.

Blaming a nurse at a clinic for this societal ill isn't going to help anyone. Punishing someone who is trying to disseminate accurate medical and legal information to do what she can to help at-risk people in the only way she can, also doesn't help anybody.

These nurses have seen what goes in in real life. They know that running out the door and calling the police isn't going actually do any good. In the end such a response is only going to ensure that these girls wind up getting no medical attention at all.

Is that your goal? To ensure that these vulnerable unfortunate brainwashed slaves get no medical attention at all? I am certain that it isn't, so therefore I must conclude that the folks who are outraged by these videos are not fully contemplating the unintended consequences of their outrage.