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First, while Planned Parenthood of Greater Memphis claims they have "asked, unsuccessfully" for "unedited" copies of our footage, we have never received a request for the raw footage by Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis. They have been making this false assertion since the start of our media release.

Second, last Monday, we sent the full undercover footage to the Shelby County District Attorney's office. They will determine whether laws were broken and confirm the veracity of our recording. You can view the unedited footage, the original video, and press documentation on our website, LiveAction.org.

In his email, Mr. Chase tries to pass blame by claiming that the employee in the video, who identifies herself as "Marie," was not properly trained. The question at hand, however, concerns not whether some or any employees at Planned Parenthood are properly trained, but whether they are practicing, in private counseling sessions, the same policies that they profess to the public.

In our undercover video, "Marie" demonstrates a clear knowledge of the legal boundaries to abortion. The video shows that she is familiar with the process for obtaining a waiver from a judge to the parental consent requirement for abortion (which Mr. Chase incorrectly calls a parental notification law). Marie then deliberately uses her familiarity with the system to forestall the judge from finding out about the statutory rapist. The Planned Parenthood counselor has created a perfect storm for ensuring that the statutory rapist is never found out: the parents will never find out about the pregnancy, the judge will never find out about the statutory rapist, and Planned Parenthood will never again mention either.

It is all the more troubling to think that even a supposed novice counselor at Planned Parenthood would know to recommend this law-evasion strategy. How prevalent must law-evasion be at Planned Parenthood clinics when even the "interpreters" are implicated? We have taped employees, mostly counselors, from six clinics covering up the sexual abuse of children in exactly the same manner. Previous studies have found over 90% of Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide willing to do so as well. This is an ingrained pattern in the operations of Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry.

With this in mind, consider the response of citizens without special training or prerogative upon learning about statutory rape situations. Responsible citizens automatically know to tell proper authorities about even their slightest suspicions of sexual abuse of young girls, because the crime is too deplorable to overlook. However, when Planned Parenthood employees have a professed victim reveal abuse explicitly, they not only fail to report it, but proactively take measures to hide it. The problem, it follows, is not from an absence of training, but the presence of a more fundamental perversion, a blind tolerance of statutory rape in the service of a careless abortion-first mentality.

Sincerely,

Lila Rose
President, Live Action
LiveAction.org

Go, Lila Go. You are one of the bravest women there is.

Let's hope that Tennessee lawmakers and prosecutors do the right thing and at the very least investigate Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood gets some $272 million per year from the federal government. Certainly there should be a congressional investigation into this organization. Preferably all payments to them should be ended immediately.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/04/26/Students-anti-abortion-crusade-has-effect/UPI-98261240804482/

Objections

I read of 4 objections to what Rose does

1) Her undercover work is illegal in itself as you cannot tape someone without their knowledge
2) These incidents are aberrations at Planned Parenthood, and you'll get a few bad apples in any large organization, and
3) Her real motive is to ban abortion, so all this is just a smokescreen

Alan Colmes makes all three of these charges in an Hannity and Colmes show.

Let's go through each of the objections.

I don't know enough about the law to say whether or not was Rose was doing was legal or not. Her tape may not in fact be admissible in court. But as a guest in the segment says, it is admissible in the court of public opinion. Further, Alan's charge that Rose is engaged in entrapment seems patently silly. This and other tapes make it clear that the PP employees do not care about her age.

On the second charge, according to Wikipedia, Planned Parenthood has some 880 clinics nationwide. The aberration defense is plausible, but we're not talking about a sales clerk misquoting the store refund policy. At the very least you'd think there should be a congressional inquiry.

Third, of course the ultimate goal of Lila Rose and all pro-life organizations is to overturn Roe v Wade and make at least most abortion illegal. That hardly justifies what PP is doing now.

Here's the analogy; suppose members of an anti-gun group went undercover into gun stores, posing as minors who wanted to purchase firearms. And suppose the dealer helped them falsify the background check. If this happened I would want the dealer prosecuted, and I'm a staunch member of the NRA.

Go, Lila, Go!

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