"No Matter Where You Stand on the Abortion Issue, That Ought to Bother You" 
Part One of Two

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Although the Los Angeles Times has rapidly fallen from the ranks of the top newspapers, its journalistic imprimatur still carries some weight. When I learned that the pro-abortion Times had profiled Lila Rose, I admit I expected an unrelenting hatchet job from a paper on the skids. I was wrong.

Lila Rose

As regular readers of TN&V and NRL News know, Rose is a 20-year-old UCLA history major whose exposes of Planned Parenthood clinics in multiple states are alerting the public to the grim private reality behind the sunny public face. According to the Times' Robin Abcarian, "Rose's goal is to undermine legal abortion by showing that Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortions in the country, abets sexual exploitation by counseling pregnant minors to lie about the ages of their adult boyfriends."

What does Rose and associates such as James O'Keefe do? "Since 2006, Rose has orchestrated undercover 'stings' at Planned Parenthood clinics in Los Angeles, Indianapolis, Bloomington, Tucson, Phoenix and Memphis," Abcarian writes.

A less loaded description of their work can be found in the same story.  Alluding to the legendary left-wing activist, Saul Alinsky, O'Keefe told the Times that he and Rose took to heart one of Alinsky's most famous admonitions: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." And according to their investigations posted on their own webpage and on Youtube, when Rose and a friend approached PPFA clinics posing as underage girls impregnated by much older men, PPFA ignored what appears to be clear evidence of statutory rape.

Abcarian's story includes PPFA's defense. "[W]ith 30,000 employees and volunteers and 850 clinics, they say, mistakes are inevitable." And they say they are conducting better training for their staff.

But according to the story, "Last year, after the Indiana videos were posted on Rose's website, Bloomington's Herald Times reported that the nurse's aide seen on the tape had been fired. A second Planned Parenthood staffer, in Indianapolis, resigned: Rose's tape appeared to show that employee directing the young woman across the state line to a clinic in Illinois, which doesn't have a parental consent law."

In addition, Abcarian writes, "A grand jury is investigating whether Planned Parenthood violated the law, said Mario Massillamany, a spokesman for the prosecutor of Marion County, where Indianapolis is located.

Of late, some states and localities are beginning to take a second look at their contracts with PPFA. According to the Times, the Orange County Board of Supervisors voted last month to suspend a grant worth nearly $300,000 to Planned Parenthood. The impetus for this came when Mark Bucher, a local businessman, raised the issue with a supervisor after seeing Rose's videos.

"I have never gotten riled up about Planned Parenthood getting taxpayer money to do abortions," Bucher told Abcarian. "I got riled up when I saw that this organization doesn't care about their legal obligation to make sure some 13-year-old girl isn't going to be molested by a 31-year-old man anymore. No matter where you stand on the abortion issue, that ought to bother you."

Part Two gives you exciting details about NRLC's annual convention. http://stoptheabortionagenda.com/convention