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Second Planned Parenthood
Clinic Comes Under Scrutiny Following Live Action Video Part One of Three By Dave Andrusko Good evening and thanks for being part of the discussion. Part Two reminds us that a temporary setback in the Senate on ObamaCare is just that--temporary. Part Three celebrates the invaluable contribution of Lutherans for Life . Over at National Right to Life News Today (www.nationalrighttolifenews.org), I begin the first of a long series of excerpts from the report of the Philadelphia Grand Jury that investigated abortionist Kermit Gosnell. Mary Spaulding Balch posts an update on the status of pro-life state legislation. Professor Michael New was kind enough to allow us to reprint his analysis of a deeply flawed study! To do the best job possible I need your feedback on both Today's News & Views and National Right to Life News Today. Please send your comments to daveandrusko@gmail.com. If you like, join those who are following me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/daveha. When I read about and then watched the latest video--in this case of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Richmond, Virginia--my first thought was, "Second verse, same as the first." The first verse being Planned Parenthood of Central New Jersey. Once again, you see a video, posted by the California-based pro-life group Live Action, in which a couple poses as a pimp and a prostitute, and, once again, appears to be greeted with open arms by a Planned Parenthood employee, even though they made it clear from the outset that they were "managing" a prostitution ring that included 14 and 15 year-old girls, some of whom were not here legally. The PPFA woman's memorable response is that, "We see people from all walks of life," her example being women from the local strip club. "Planned Parenthood's problems go far beyond New Jersey," said Live Action President Lila Rose said in a statement. "Our new video shows their Richmond clinic willing to aid and abet the sexual exploitation of minors and coaching a pimp about how girls as young as 14 – 15 could circumvent parental consent laws for secret abortions. Watch the video – the clinic worker admits they do this 'once or twice a month.'" PP of Central New Jersey, sent scrambling, fired its office manager in Perth Amboy, N.J., when Live Action posted the video it had taken covertly in January. In the footage, the office manager "coached them to lie about the age of the girls' sex partners" reports Susan Livio of the Star Ledger. ''"If they are a minor, we are obligated if we hear certain information, to kind of report (it),' the manager said. 'So as long as they just lie and say, 'Oh, he's 15, 16,' no one should question them." When they asked the office manager what should they do if one of the young girls they pretended to be using as sex slaves needs an abortion, they were allegedly told to take them to Metropolitan Medical Associates where "their protocols aren't as strict as ours and they don't get audited the same way that we do." As we reported yesterday, back in 2009 Liz Townsend wrote a story for National Right to Life News headlined, "Abortion Mill Settles Lawsuit with Injured Woman" for $1.9 million. The headline refers to Metropolitan Medical Associates. In announcing the woman's termination (interesting choice of words) in a Tuesday statement, Phyllis Kinsler, chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of Central New Jersey, said that she and her colleagues were "profoundly shocked when we viewed the videotape released this morning, which depicted an employee of one of our health centers behaving in a repugnant manner that is inconsistent with our standards of care and is completely unacceptable." She added, "We have a zero tolerance policy for this kind of behavior, and the employee in the video was immediately suspended from her duties this morning and was terminated this evening." What will we hear from the Richmond abortion clinic? On the video we hear the Planned Parenthood woman say, "If someone's a minor and they don't want their parents to know [because they would be on their] parent's insurance – so an abortion would show up--you fill out paperwork and we kinda help you set it up and we have a confidential hotline that will call you at whatever number you give us and handle the whole thing. So, for someone who's a minor, that's a really good thing. We do 'em like once or twice a month here." She adds, unnecessarily, "We're pretty good at handling if someone doesn't want someone else to know." According to the Star Ledger's Livio, New Jersey Attorney General Paula Dow has asked the Division of Criminal Justice to investigate whether the manager broke any laws. "At first glance, I find these allegations to be very disturbing," Dow said in a statement. Live Action sent a letter this morning to Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli asking that his office conduct a statewide investigation. |