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Planned Parenthood to Retrain Workers as Pro-Life Group Releases Another Vid

NEW YORK (The Blaze/AP) — Health care provider Planned Parenthood (PP)will retrain employees who deal with patients in how to report potential risks to minors, following the release of secretly recorded videotapes by an anti-abortion group that alleges they show clinic staff counseling a man posing as a pimp for underage prostitutes.

[Below is new video, released today, showing a PP worker in New York City counseling the fake pimp on how he can pose as the teens' guardian so they can get services.]

Planned Parenthood, which has more than 800 health clinics and 11,000 employees nationwide, announced the retraining effort Monday. It also said it was changing its disciplinary policy to termination in all proved cases in which there has been a failure to report. The policy previously included punishments such as leave without pay and retraining.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc., which has national offices in New York and Washington, D.C., says it delivers vital reproductive health care and sex education to millions of people. It said Monday the goal of retraining was to show a “firm commitment” to reporting any potential harm to minors.

Federation spokesman Stuart Schear emphasized that the training was not new but was meant as a refresher. He said training will follow state laws where affiliates have clinics.

“We want to be crystal clear for those millions of people who come to us and trust us that we will never put a minor at risk,” he said.

The training must be completed by April 1. The new disciplinary policy will go into effect afterward.

Anti-abortion group Live Action last week released videotapes it said showed footage of staff at Planned Parenthood clinics in New Jersey and Virginia talking about services with a man who claimed to be a sex trafficker of minors.

The New Jersey attorney general’s office said it was looking into the allegations. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said he found a clip from a video of a Richmond clinic to be “very disturbing.”

Live Action, based in San Jose, California, claims the videos are proof that Planned Parenthood employees beaks laws to abet sexual trafficking and the exploitation of underage prostitutes.

Live Action’s president, Lila Rose, did not immediately respond to an e-mailed request for comment about Planned Parenthood’s decision to retrain staff. She previously called on Congress to cut off federal family planning grants to the organization.

Planned Parenthood has defended the actions of its employees and has said the encounters with the fake pimp were reported to managers, who in turn discussed the cases with law enforcement.

The organization also sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder seeking an investigation of a man who has visited clinics purportedly seeking services for underage prostitutes. The letter said the visits could be aimed at casting the organization “in a negative light.”

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  • flattop
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 10:07am

    Ok. Forget everything we told you before, even though it was on the sly. This is how it is.

    We no longer give tacit approval to child sex-slave pimps, nor do we tell them how to secretly obtain abortions for their 12 year olds. GOT IT !

    We should have learned from the ACORN mess. Once the videos start coming out we can’t simply just pass this off as a few rogue workers. There aren’t enough stupid people around anymore to believe that.

    Retrain retrain retrain now !

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  • LibertyAdvocate
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:49am

    Maybe if someone wants to abort their child, it should be the doctor’s duty to deliver it, and the patient’s duty to kill it. At least then they’ll understand what it means to abort a human life, even if their are no legal consequences of their actions.

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  • rmblount
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:46am

    This won’t get anymore mass media attention than the butcher in Pa. that killed all those babies in his, so called, abortion clinic. Planned Parenthood is just an arm of Satan himself. We are a doomed nation.

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  • c10win
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:43am

    Retraining, of course. They‘re gonna be ’trained’ to keep their mouth shut! Slaughtering unborn children is a big, profitable business for the liberals of this country. Just follow the Philly story about Dr. Death, Kermit Gosnell. $1.8 million per year can be proven and there’s more to find, yet he has no money for an attorney. Can you say entitled? Poor lib… And he is only 1 abortionist!!!

    http://articles.philly.com/2011-02-07/news/27105608_1_shore-house-grand-jury-report-investigators

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    • aburkholz
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 10:42am

      Thanks for the article link. Just goes to show you that the ONLY motivation behind abortion is the profit. God have mercy on us.

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  • benrumsley
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:36am

    Retraining? Will they also be going through the files and seeing how many CHILDREN were referred to abortion doctors without notifying the parents first? It‘s way past time that this group had ALL FEDERAL MONEY removed from it’s bank account.

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  • Think4urself
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:34am

    Please note that the training will be completed on APRIL FOOLS DAY! That says it all about about the good intentions of PP.

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  • Mackerel
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:32am

    Bring us your sex slaves……..and we’ll get them back out in the field just as quick as we can!!!
    WTH? WTF? UFB!!!!

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  • The Gooch
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:21am

    As health care providers, Planned Parenthood’s employees are mandated reporters of abuse and neglect. Only 3 states have privileged exemptions and of those, VA’s privileged exemption clause only applyies to the clergy. I’m not sure if Planned Parenthood would even be allowed to skate in the two states in question. I’ve seen people lose their jobs and licensure and/or certification for failure to report abuse and neglect. Any admission of a child being used in the sex trade fits… UH, DUH… the defintion of abuse and neglect.
    Failure to report and even acknowledge child sexual abuse appears endemic within Planned Parenthood. I’m not surprised this is being soft shoed. Here’s a thought: Take away a large portion if not all of their govt. funding. It’s actually going to cost us more for Planned Parenthood to go thru the motions of appearing to give a damn. However, one prolific poster who takes it upon himself to defend Planned Parenthood here on The Blaze indicates an all too common mindset: Planned Parenthood can do no wrong.
    With such severe ethical (and arguably criminal violations) in so many sites of service, many providers would be closing their doors (you can’t practice sans licenced staff) or cleaning house in administration. Nice to see Planned Parenthood assuring us it has everything under control.
    Planned Parenthood is obviously not to be trusted once it slinks back behind its doors.

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  • angelcat
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:12am

    Translation: They will chew them out about watching who they talk to and what they say so that they won’t get caught.

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  • wkw58
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:08am

    Defund them NOW Congress!! Once I could maybe see happening. Twice…not so much. Three times is a pattern. I do not wish MY tax dollars to ever have anything to do with the murder of innocents. Again I say,
    ye shall know them by their words.

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  • mikenleeds
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:01am

    when are us ..the tax payer … are going to stop founding these baby murdering and criminal activities ? government please stop taking money out of my pocket to pay for this **** , i don t want any part of it

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  • eat-more-bacon-USA
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:59am

    50 Million Babies Slaughtered Since 1973 in the United States.

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    • Bullwinkle
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:13am

      Slaughtered is exactly the right word. These people they are “retraining” are slaughterhouse workers.

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    • Cape_Lookout_RW_Extremist
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 10:42am

      and we wonder why there is lack of money for social security!

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    • barbaraw62
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 12:03pm

      This is the holocaust!………. So sad, all in the name of the rights of women….. I am ashamed for all the women who chose to kill their children. God Forgive them… God forgive America!

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  • tbeachhead
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:53am

    Where this much money is involved, with little risk, and no accountability, what’s a little bump in the road? It’s always struck me as ironic that the biggest “not for profit” abortion provider in America also supplies the schools with “educational materials.” I had a brain wave! Why not have McDonald’s come into the schools and teach foods and nutrition? They’d do better than those who supplied the White House with Super Bowl fare!

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  • positive1
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:45am

    The facts about federal funding. The services that are provided are usually to poor people with no money. free market principles would dictate low cost services or a lot fewer clinics. And since a doctor is involved and the government wants to control the cost of medical services (pay more than the market can bare) our government is a baby killing machine.

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  • hempstead1944
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:39am

    Only in America when you are caught on video doing evil…..you can avoid responsibility…..This has become the country of no consequences ….. soon to become a country of no consequence…..

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  • ENTITLEMENTSBLOW
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:38am

    Common sense and condoms usually work pretty good. Whatever happened to personal responsibility?

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  • michiganmark
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:36am

    You can’t retrain them. It’s the culture of PP. Obviously the people in the video agree with what they are doing. If they didn’t they would either quit or become a whistle-blower. I would liken it to retraining a terrorist, never gonna happen.

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  • Republic
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:35am

    So, how do you retrain evil?

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:34am

    We must defund these people quickly, legally; immediately. They have scarred and continue to scar our country. Close ‘em down!

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  • RN MOM
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:23am

    They are participating in sexual crimes against minors- and they need “retraining”. I find that offensive, and way too relaxed of a response. Unless, the “retraining” consists of lessons on how to spot investigators and hidden cameras.

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    • Bullwinkle
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:16am

      You know that’s exactly what the supposed retraining is. Can’t get caught again or the MSM may finally say something, though it’s not likely. With the ability to get away with murder already I’m not sure why they even worry about this little problem.

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    • teachermitch32
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 11:56am

      That is exactly what the re-training will be focused on…avoiding getting caught on camera or audio recording. Interesting that the LSM is not reporting on this stuff at all….but not surprising.

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    • leanmachine
      Posted on February 9, 2011 at 9:47pm

      I SO agree!!!!

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  • RugDog
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:22am

    Evil.

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:21am

    The next time a self-righteous LibProg accuses you of not being compassionate, point them to this and ask them what they think about sex slavery.

    LibProg boast that they are the most compassionate people on earth. They put bumper stickers on their car just so you’ll know what humanitarians they really are. Deep down, LibProgs are obsessed with one thing: their own gratification. Unless they speak out against this they have no moral authority to accuse us of anything.

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  • GeauxAlready
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:18am

    .
    I have a question?

    Can we Late Trem Abort these people????????????????

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  • smithclar3nc3
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:17am

    So what they’re saying those employees caught on video were doing what they were trained to do. Hence the re-training. We need to cut off all tax dollars to this group they are more than welcome to get their funding through charities and donations by those who support abortion.

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:37am

      @smithclar3nc3 That is exactly what I was thinking!!!! Let Michael Moore, Richard Dreyfus, Jane Fonda and all the Hollywood People that want their doors to stay open redistribute their wealth to each office so they can stay open. The Federal Government can defund and apply toward deficit.Then everyone would be happy…..I am sure none of the Hollywood elite would mind redistributing “Their” wealth, Yeah right!!

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:50am

      No Sissy…I won’t be happy until arortion is ruled murder like it should be.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 10:33am

      Dusty the only problem with your agenda is there are cases where abortion should be available rape,incest,and cases where the mothers life is at risk. I agree that abortion as a form of birth control
      should be outlawed and is reprehensible.

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    • AmericanSoldier
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 2:00pm

      I believe tax payer dollars should not fund abortions but even as a birth control, abortions should be legal. It’s within the womans body. Until that fetus can survive outside the womans body or can be transplanted into a wanting mother, it’s the original mothers choice whether to let something grow within her or not. It is her body. Not yours. Not the Government. By saying you or the Government has the right to tell anyone that procedure can be done to their own body is something most Conservatives would cringe from hearing. Until you replace “Procedure” with “Abortion” then all of the sudden the Government DOES have the right to tell you what to do to your own body.

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    • GrannyATL
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:18pm

      American Soldier, the Conservative values line up completely with the Pro-Life movement. We believe that God granted everyone the inalienable right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

      What the Pro-Choice movement has successfully beaten into everyone’s minds is that the fetus is not a person. Back in 1973 when Roe v. Wade was decided, science didn’t have the abilty to look inside the womb. DNA hadn’t been a reality.

      Now we know better. That fetus is fully human from the moment of conception. It has DNA that is distinctly its own. The parent of that living being should not have the right to kill it just because it’s inconvenient.

      I used to be pro-choice. I even had an abortion when I was 19 back in 1974 — one of the first to legally get one. Through reason and true intellectual pursuit of the truth, I’ve come to understand just how wrong I was.

      I’ve seen your posts. You’re smarter than that line about coat hangers and back-alley abortions. That was the ‘70’s argument. Unfortunately, the argument has never gotten any better because science is soundly on the side of the pro-life choice.

      Abortion hurts the mother, but it kills the baby. Both consequences are avoidable. Life is a healther option.

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    • AmericanSoldier
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 6:59pm

      You are by far the best commenter I’ve had a discussion with on The Blaze. I appreciate that. While I understand your argument, the bottom line is it is her body. It is not your decision to make. I’ll be happy if you provided an alternative for the woman. If you can transplant the fetus into a wanting mother, I’ll support that over abortion. Or if they can remove the baby successfully and it can grow in an incubator. Question is, who pays for it? Perhaps the wanting mother? Perhaps tax payers yet again?

      The bottom line in the argument of pro-anti abortion is that it is the woman’s body and her choice. Not yours. Not the Government. You allow the government to intervene in this manner and you give them precedent to make other determinations for your health. It’s just what the left would need.

      I take this as a small Government person. You are free to not have an abortion. You, as a health care provider, are free not to perform or recommend an abortion. You are free to promote life rather than an abortion. You can spend millions on advertisement discouraging woman not to have an abortion. You can even protest outside of an abortion clinic. You cannot, however, tell a woman what she can or can’t do to her body.

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    • The Gooch
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:17pm

      Let’s stay on topic. As I’ve stated, I recognize that whether or not I agree with the act of aborting a pregnancy, abortion is here to stay, legal or otherwise. Having said that, the issue at hand is the mandated reporting responsibilities of Planned Parenthood. At some point, an institutional mindset has taken hold within Planned Parenthood that has empowered the entity’s employees to assume their agency somehow gets a pass. Mandated reporters do not have discretionary consideration on this matter. When suspected abuse is revealed (and this would certainly include child sexual abuse), you report. It is the responding DHHR/CPS office’s responsibility to substantiate or excuse the claim… NEVER the provider’s.
      This issue is not about the legality of abortion; it is a revelation that Planned Parenthood is not meeting the ethical standards that are put forth in state laws and codes of conduct for professionals. Agencies are typically shut down, licenses lost and certification cancelled when consistent and brazen failure to report is exposed. Why, oh, why should Planned Parenthood get a pass? As witnessed with Kermit Gosnell in PA, govt. is woefully inept in regulating abortion providers. Apparently the providers are aware of this. I believe we should be thankful for an active citizenry/media… whatever you want to call it. Someone who ISN’T taking my tax dollars exposes the inadequacy of govt. regulation and reveals a biased (or at least resprehensibly lazy and dismissive) health care provider playing by its own rules. Seems like a win to me for both child advocacy and an active citizenry. Abortion is legal; generally failing to operate under the legal and ethical codes mandated by both govt. and your profession is inexcusable. Such activity is not freedom or even libertarianism; it‘s arbitrarily picking and choosing what you will and won’t do based on your biased and ideology. Is that who we are? Those who embrace anarchy when a sacred cow is in play?

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    • GrannyATL
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:30pm

      Soldier, you’re ignoring an important point. You said “You cannot, however, tell a woman what she can or can’t do to her body.” Your forgetting that she has another person she is now responsible for. That thing is not just a blob of tissue — it is another human being with its own distinctive DNA. By 6 weeks this baby has a heartbeat.

      We can never claim to protect human rights if we ignore the most innocent and vulnerable. These babies don‘t deserve to die just because they’re an inconvenience. Many thousands of couples would gladly take that baby off the hands of a mother who doesn’t want it.

      The real bottom line is that we all have hurdles we must overcome in our life. Taking on those hurdles helps to build our character. When you take the life of your own baby you have made a short-term decision that will affect you for the rest of your life.

      Trust me on that. While I adamantly insisted that nobody had the right to tell me what to do with my body, there wasn‘t a year that I didn’t think of that child as his or her birthdate rolled around. He or she would have been 37 this past Thanksgiving.

      We need to do more to support the women who are pregnant. There are better options.

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:16am

    I have a better idea, just fire them all and close your doors. Woe to those who harm children.

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    • expatinontariocanada
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:26am

      Margaret Sanger is dancing with Satan in hades every time an unborn child goes to heaven. I’d suggest pitying their souls but why? Maybe “hate the sin but not the sinner”. It’s a struggle…

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    • cnsrvtvj
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:36am

      That would be my suggestion as well heavyduty. They would just end up doing what Acorn did anyway though. They would just start up under a different name. All these liberal organizations seem to have no problem with the exploitation of children. It’s just disgusting.

      http://www.donsmithshow.com – see the liberal mindset video

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    • Carl1
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:39am

      We can’t fire 11,000 Obama supporters. That would be Inhumane

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:45am

      @Expat…

      True, the struggle to love the sinner, yet decry against the sin they do is one of the hardest of all christian abilities to fully mature – after so many years of effort on my part, I still have problems with seperating the person from the actions they have chosen to do, for good or bad. Yet with Jesus as the guide and the way, we can do it, step by step as he showed us.

      @Heavy duty

      Not a bad idea.

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    • quiet little lamb
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:50am

      For comedy on this subject go check out MMFA site. They actually have this quote

      “So Planned Parenthood obviously wasn’t covering up anything; they were fulfilling their obligation to KEEP CHILDREN SAFE.”
      I would laugh if it wasnt so sad

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    • HillBillySam1
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:56am

      What a disgrace this whole organization is……they are no different than “Dr.” Gosnell in Philadelphia…..if that lady had not died in his office thru gross negligence, he would still be “snipping” those little babies’ spinal cords today…..Abortion is an abomination.

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    • SgtHenick
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:57am

      Yea…planned parenthood is all about protecting the children….except for the unborn ones -.-

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 9:26am

      I hope they keep these videos coming until they are defunded and shut down. They over-stepped their boundaries along time ago and it’s time for parents to be responsible for what their children are doing, not PP. Just like parents are leaving the schools to babysit their children, no matter what they are being taught, parents are leaving their kids to PP so they don’t have to deal with the subject of sex, STD, abortion, etc. Taking the easy way out!

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    • Rogue
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 10:41am

      If you can stomach it, take a few minutes to go to mediamatters.org and see thier coverage of these PP stories. The comments on the stories are just as rediculous as the coverage. No one speaks of personal responsibility or required parental involvement. It’s all about the poor victim children (the pregnant 14 year olds, not the aborted babies), and how PP is there to protect them.

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    • theninthplanet
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 10:45am

      PP News Conference: This is just an isolated incident. You can’t blame an entire organization for one bad app– (Staff member interrupts and whispers in ear) — Really!? There are three others you say? –
      As everyone knows, Live action is a group dedicated to removing a woman’s sacred right to chose from the Constitution. They doctored the tapes and are out to get us! We’ll take no further questions.

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    • ANTISOCIAL-IST
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 11:13am

      new training: tsa-approved molestation techniques to uncover recording devices.

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    • getalong
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 11:38am

      Once again, where is the outcry for defunding by the Republican congress. Not a word as been said.

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    • Beckofile
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 12:05pm

      What is so “Planned” about what they do? I call it Unplanned Partyhood

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    • CultureWarriors
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 1:53pm

      Not only should they not receive ANY tax payer funding, they should be required to give a refund of ALL government funding they have ever received. In addition those at the top should sit in jail until the refund is made.

      Now, I don’t if anyone else has seen the story about the pharmacy in Denver who mistakenly gave a pregnant women an abortion pill. My question is, will the liberals be consistent (no they won’t) and demand that we no longer allow abortion pills, so that this type of tragedy can never happen again? If it weren’t for the abortion pill this would have never happened. Why are abortion pills legal?

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    • AmericanSoldier
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 1:56pm

      OMG! The HORROR! Confidentiality between the patient and the doctor! What the hell is that?! Underages girls can be tested for STD’s?! No way! End this horrible practice!

      Let them spread those STD’s! She’s providing general information about abortions!! The horror!

      You are all stretching these friggin videos out to more then they are. Seriously, you are no better than the Liberals you curse on a daily basis. You’ll push and interpret whatever you need to to get the outcome you want.

      I don’t agree with underage prostitution but I do think that prostitution in general should be legal. It’s a similar process of drugs, it’s only dangerous (for both the buyer and the girls) because it’s illegal and pimps know the people have no legal recourse for their actions against their girls.

      I understand, you hate abortion. Abortion is legal no matter how horrified you are. I guarantee the employees rationale is either they get the abortion safely through PP or they get a coat hanger, back alley abortion (or the pimp can just beat the crap out of them or kill them, which ever is cheaper). That seems logical to me and I would not fault the employees for providing abortion and STD testing information, confidentially, to anyone regardless of their occupation. it is not their job to judge or to uphold criminal law.

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    • GrannyATL
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 4:09pm

      American Soldier, I realize you’re trying to be rational and all that, but the bigger issue that these videos are trying to highlight is that PP is supposed to REPORT TO THE POLICE any suspicions of child sex abuse. That most definitely includes bringing in underage girls to sell them as sex toys.

      The mantra of PP is that they are “protecting” these girls by offering them abortions. Instead, they are refusing to help underage children get away from the pimp who brought them into the country illegally to exploit them.

      We believe all abortion is wrong, no matter the circumstances. You don’t. I get it. But to try and argue the old line that if PP wasn’t there, these girls would be using coat hangers or getting beat up by their pimps is disingenuous.

      The real problem is that these PP just had an opportunity to take this pimp’s information down and schmooze him long enough until the cops arrived.

      They blew it all the way around. We can see that clearly. Why can’t you?

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    • AmericanSoldier
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 5:49pm

      I understand where you’re coming from. Are they required by law to report it? I understand morally, they should. I would but are they legally required to do so? They’re main cornerstone is confidentiality and although keeping quiet about underage prostitution may seem deplorable to us all, it shows they do have a strict confidentiality ethics. That‘s important to their institution as I would say it’s important to a lawyer and a priest. I’m not trying to compare those professions to PP but some of you would look down on a lawyer who defends a child rapist, would you not?

      I agree, they should have reported it but you don’t know what their reasoning for not reporting it. You may not think the argument of “What other options do they have, ie hanger abortions, back alley abortions” but i believe that is a legitimate reasons for concern.

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    • The Gooch
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 6:00pm

      To AmericanSoldier, as health care providers, Planned Parenthoods employees are MANDATED reporters of child abuse (including sexual abuse) and neglect. Only three states have priviveged exemptions and VA’s only applies to the clergy (which is darkly humorous in a light of the past decade).
      Planned Parenthood is caught. It’s that simple I go into more detail in a general post. Think as you will, but at what point do you stop defending what the majority deems indefensible (or at least illegal)? There is a point where one starts looking irrational.

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    • GrannyATL
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 6:46pm

      AmericanSoldier, you’re trying to defend the indefensible. Planned Parenthood are mandator reporters. They MUST report anyone they suspect of harming a child. These people came right out and admitted they were bringing underage girls into the country (sex trafficking) and were looking to secure STD testing and abortions on them, if needed. There was no gray here….it was pretty black and white.

      While you try to portray them as altruistic for their insistence on confidentiality, it shows a lack of understanding just what that means for a victim. That confidentiality that you cloak over their intentions allows them to hide crimes. When a child comes in who has been raped by her mother’s boyfriend, looking the other way under the guise of maintaining confidentiality permits that young girl to be harmed even more when she is forced to have an abortion. How many young girls weep in their rooms when they’re alone because adults who SHOULD know better just look the other way?

      I honestly believe that Planned Parenthood looks the other way because it increases their bottom line. You obviously feel differently. Let’s agree to disagree on their motives, but let’s also be honest with each other by agreeing that it is NEVER permissible than an adult should look the other way when a child is being harmed. Never.

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    • AmericanSoldier
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 7:04pm

      I understand your points completely. Unless we can read the employee’s mind, we really don’t know what they were thinking. Maybe some are more gullible than others? There are many IF in this whole planned parenthood situation. Should they have reported it? Absolutely. Are they actually legally obligated to? Show me the law. I’m not really trying to defend their actions but in all reality, I don’t see them as coaching a pimp as all of you would like it to seem.

      I think you are blowing the videos out of proportion, in my humble opinion.

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    • C_Ped81@yahoo.com
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 7:30pm

      This shows the broken moral compass of these people. Its not surprising at all that they have no problem taking the life of these babies. A call to the cops SHOULD be a citizens first inclination.

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    • GrannyATL
      Posted on February 8, 2011 at 8:29pm

      AmericanSoldier, I’ve seen enough of your posts to know that you typically try to be logical in your position. In this case, I would say that your personal preference has pushed logic into the back seat.

      For instance, you say “Maybe some are more gullible than others?” What was there to be gullible about? These people came right out and stated their intent to bring underaged girls into the country to use as prostitutes and wanted Planned Parenthood to provide “family planning” for them. It’s a “yes” or “no” answer. PP said “Yes.”

      You also said, “Should they have reported it? Absolutely. Are they actually legally obligated to? Show me the law.” Okay, if you insist. I Googled “Mandatory Reporting Laws NY” and this is the first hit on the list: “Certain professionals are required by law to report suspected child abuse or maltreatment to the New York State Central Register (SCR) of Child Abuse and Maltreatment. The law also assigns civil and criminal liability to those professionals who do not comply with their mandated reporter responsibilities.” That comes from the Office of Children and Family Services website. I’m sure you can Google the same thing for other states and find similar wording.

      Then you said “I’m not really trying to defend their actions but in all reality, I don’t see them as coaching a pimp as all of you would like it to seem.” Yes, you are trying to defend them. Just admit it… :-)

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