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Planned Parenthood Worried It’s the Target of a New Sting

Planned Parenthood has been at the center of any number of controversial scandals – involving everything from sex trafficking to old-fashioned eugenics. So it‘s only natural they’d start catching onto what probably isn’t good faith from potential clients. And apparently, there’s been a rash nationwide of Planned Parenthoods facing awkward questions from supposedly pregnant women – questions like “how do I tell what gender my child will be” and its corollary “can I abort my child if it’s a girl?”

And despite their willingness to believe that widespread sexism is at the root of nearly everything wrong with the country,  including opposition to them, somehow the idea that their own clients might be sexist has them crying foul and wondering if they’re the target of a “sting operation.” The Huffington Post reports:

“For years opponents of reproductive health and Planned Parenthood have engaged in secret videotaping tactics with fictitious patient scenarios and selective editing in an attempt to promote misinformation about Planned Parenthood and our services,” Cooney said. “As with the prior instances, we anticipate that once again this group, likely in coordination with a broad range of anti-abortion leaders, will soon launch a propaganda campaign with the goal of discrediting Planned Parenthood, and, ultimately, restricting women’s health.”

The most likely group behind the campaign, Planned Parenthood suspects, is anti-abortion activist group Live Action, which has a history of paying actors to walk into Planned Parenthood clinics and act out various controversial scenarios in an attempt to catch the family planning provider’s staffers doing something illegal or immoral on tape. A recent operation involved actors posing as pimps and prostitutes engaged in human trafficking and seeking birth control, STD testing and other family planning services. HuffPost’s Ryan Grim reported in February 2011 that Live Action heavily edited the videos they gathered to alter the meaning of conversations and falsely imply that Planned Parenthood is complicit in sex trafficking, but conservative lawmakers and media outlets cited the group’s videos in numerous subsequent political attacks against the family planning provider.[...]

While Planned Parenthood condemns seeking abortions on the basis of the gender of the fetus, Cooney said the provider is also “committed to providing high-quality, confidential, nonjudgmental care to all who come into our health centers.” While Planned Parenthood staffers are extensively trained to answer unusual and difficult questions and to refer women to necessary counseling, none of its clinics will deny a woman an abortion based on her reasons for wanting one, except in those states that explicitly prohibit sex-selection abortion (Arizona, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Illinois).

To be fair to Planned Parenthood, the pattern is quite pervasive – similar incidents have been reported in eleven different states – so something may indeed be seriously wrong. And this story from Life News surely does nothing to dull their fears, given the reaction of Live Action’s leader, Lila Rose:

Life News talked with Rose, who said her group can’t confirm whether they are currently engaging in any undercover investigations focusing on the abortion business.

“Live Action’s policy is not to comment on or confirm ongoing investigative research until its conclusion and public release,” she said.

If Live Action is indeed conducting another investigation, Planned Parenthood’s attempt here to head off the results before the organization releases them would not mar the first occasion on which it attempted to do so. Planned Parenthood representatives spoke with the Washington Post just a short time before Live Action released the sex trafficking videos showing Planned Parenthood staffers arranging abortions for victims. The abortion business also spoke with the Washington Post to put its spin on the breaking of the story of Komen for the Cure cutting its funding — causing a massive backlash and an eventual reversal in its decision.

Both sides are clearly trying to pre-empt each other in this fight, so it seems possible at the very least that an expose was or is in the works. We’ll be keeping an eye out for more.

Comments (51)

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  • cmark
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:36pm

    How does Abortion equate into Parenthood? I guess Planned Murder was already taken.

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  • burnbabylon
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:25pm

    “For years opponents of reproductive health…”
    That’s quite a spin. Let me try.
    “The misanthropic organization Planned Parenthood…”
    FAIL

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    • Marci
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:25pm

      “While Planned Parenthood condemns seeking abortions on the basis of the gender of the fetus…”

      Well, how generous of them. Just give them another reason and they will do it anyway. Also, if they are worried about stings, then maybe they shouldn’t do anything wrong…..it’s ONE way to not get caught.

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    • meeester
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 11:46am

      “reproductive health”
      Geez. What an example of distorting reality. Was it Animal Farm of 1984 where there was a group that rewrote history and redefined words? At the time that was presented as a bad thing that could happen in the evil future if ‘we’ weren’t careful.

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  • TheCoffinMaker
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:12pm

    Planned Parenthood in Raleigh is next door to a pizza parlor.

    Both places are usually packed with guests.

    …some don’t come out alive.

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  • tired_of_it2011
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:39pm

    “Health center” = slaughter house. May God have mercy on their souls.

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    • WeekendAtBernankes
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:49pm

      Just what are they doing in there that they’re worried about getting out?

      I mean, it‘s just women’s health right? They just provide free health services right? Shouldn’t they be happy for the free publicity for their wonderful services?

      So what are they worried about?

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:05pm

    News flash;
    Obama signs Executive Order placing TSA agents at all Planned Parenthood clinics to strip search patients for cameras and audio recorders. : )))

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:57pm

    Conservative Doctor treating Planned Parenthood;
    “Now this will sting a bit…”

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    • JACKTHETOAD
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:45pm

      Time to bring back public floggings. I bet they sting.

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    • JACKTHETOAD
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:54pm

      With BIG apologies to my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. (The more people that accept this FACT will live through The BIG Spankin’.)

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  • geonj
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:39pm

    we need to amend the constitution to make abortion illegal. barring that, we need states to outlaw abortion and then challenge the states rights in the supreme court. the same goes for gay marriage. we need to get this country back to a moral center. we need to take our governance from the extreme right and the extreme left and lead this country from the right and left of center.

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    • WeekendAtBernankes
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:43pm

      The most disturbing thing about the left is that it wants to impose its moral views on society by force of government.

      That differs from what you want to do… How?

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  • NOTYERHUCKLEBERRY
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:39pm

    You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide.

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:27pm

      Maybe their racially sterilizing all the white people to promote a master race.

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  • abbygirl1994
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:17pm

    And I hope they get stung good.. Murderers!

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    • lbyrd26
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:19pm

      Looks to me like Planned Parenthood is trying to get ahead of a story they know is about to come out. Exposing them would be a very good thing and I can’t wait!

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:33pm

      I agree LBYRD26. Sounds like serious spin doctoring.

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  • Soquel by the Creek
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:15pm

    This is called “inoculation”. It’s a technique to discredit possible future covert video exposes.

    There’s no need to use covert video. Simply use the actual facts that Planned Parenthood provides in its own annual report.
    http://issuu.com/actionfund/docs/ppfa_financials_2010_122711_web_vf?mode=window&viewMode=doublePage

    At least 329,000 human lives were sacrificed on the altar of the Progressive Left. See pages 4 and 5.

    Also …

    CHART: Deaths in the USA by Selected Causes (2007)
    http://www.twitpic.com/8ettux/full

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  • disenlightened
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:14pm

    Ann Coulter once wrote that liberalism is a religion, and abortion it’s holy sacrament.

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    • Libertyluvnmomma
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:02am

      ann is a witty lady.
      she should open a preparatory school for girls.

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    • Balpit
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:43pm

      I know from experience that they treat any criticism against abortion as blasphemy. You so much as disagree with the idea of people being forced to pay for abortions, and they’ll pull out all the stops with vicious insults, fundamentalist accusations, libel, etc.

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  • marine249
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:02pm

    they know its coming

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  • VoteRightDammit
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:02pm

    Planned Parenthood ………….

    The ACORN of 2012.

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:01pm

    Killers.

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  • Magyar
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:00pm

    They’re nothing but death camps — no different than Auschwitz, Treblinka and the other 146—

    The only difference– Planned Parenthood is funded with our tax dollars—

    I guess that makes us ALL accountable!

    The LORD is NOT pleased–remember Baal, the golden calf, Sodom and Gomorrah? MMMM….

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  • NHwinter
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:56pm

    No problem, Obama will protect them.

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  • ADNIL
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:52pm

    I’m a little confused as to why it matters to PP if a client wants to abort based on gender. What do they care? Baby boy, baby girl, isn’t it all the same to them? It isn’t their “reproductive health” (cough, cough, gag) choice.

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:52pm

    You have to LOVE this story. PRO LIFE group moves in next door to Planned Parenthood! :) http://www.therightscoop.com/awesome-pro-life-health-clinic-moves-in-next-door-steals-planned-parenthoods-customers/

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  • korbin
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:50pm

    Blacks make up only 12% of the population and yet are responsible for 35% of abortions. HMMM who are the racists? really. the progressives will have you believe the right are the racists. I think people need to open their eye’s and see what the truth really is.

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    • grimmy
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:58pm

      @Korbin.
      I have to question those figures on blacks, when i see on programs like the first 48 and other reality shows,where the dstraught mother has ten kidsI dont know which breeds more or faster, hispanics, or blacks.Ok, let the racist claims fly…….

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    • Soquel by the Creek
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:20pm

      Grimmy, here is data from the United States Census Bureau. It tracks the number of abortions and rates by the mother’s (or, I guess that non-mother’s is more accurate) race.

      Table 101. Abortions—Number and Rate by Race: 1990 to 2007
      http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0101.pdf

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 5:35am

      Whites can have babies and give them up knowing they will probably be adopted into good homes. Blacks know that if they have kids they can’t care for they could spend their entire youth in the foster care system and are likely to end up abused or neglected.

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  • Walkabout
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:49pm

    Planned Parenthood could not survive round the clock taping with the faces of customers” blurred out & the names changed.

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  • korbin
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:47pm

    Here are some facts. The movement, birth controllers, was more attractive to feminists such
    as Margaret Sanger.[5] It did not demand that affluent women abandon careers
    for large families. It planned to achieve race building by forcing down the
    birth rate of the “unfit.” In her autobiography, Margaret Sanger summarized
    the differences between the two movementsWith 1/3 of all abortions performed on Black women, the abortion industry has received over 4,000,000,000 (yes, billion) dollars from the Black community

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  • Meyvn
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:45pm

    So sad. o.o

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:41pm

    Everyone knows their plan! It’s too kill children legally.

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  • mcgrawactor1
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:40pm

    Hold on!! I can’t believe only FOUR states prohibit sex-selection abortion. Thank Heaven PA is one of them, where I am located. What are you worried about PP? Getting caught for killing based on gender? I guess killing isn’t bad enough. Sheesh. I hope that you are hoisted by your own petard very SOOOON!! this news story makes me sick.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 5:30am

      I can’t believe that any states get away with requiring a woman to explain her reasons for doing something she is supposed to have a legal right to do.

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:39pm

    GOOD. They need to be ‘outed’! They are evil, money making baby exterminators. Sickening and it’s OUR tax dollars. errrr

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