Planned Parenthood Stung on YouTube

Ah yes. Living in the age of YouTube. Lila Rose, a student at UCLA, called up Planned Parenthood offices across the country, posing as an underage girl seeking an abortion. She claimed her boyfriend was 22. Most states have mandatory reporting laws for statutory rape. So how did the Planned Parenthood offices respond? Rose recorded the conversations and posted them to YouTube. In an article at Lifenews.com (which I'm unfamiliar with, HT: Presbyweb) reports:

Los Angeles, CA (LifeNews.com) — Planned Parenthood is upset that a pro-life student at UCLA posed as a pregnant teenager and exposed it for advising her to disguise statutory rape. In an undercover investigative story for a student-run newspaper, UCLA student Lila Rose posed as a pregnant 15 year-old and entered a Santa Monica Planned Parenthood.

She told officials there that a 23 year old man had impregnated her and her article in The Advocate newspaper says PP staff assured Rose that if she said she was 16 or older, they wouldn't have to report the rape.

Unbeknownst to Planned Parenthood officials at the time, Rose taped the conversations and posted them on the popular web site YouTube.

The abortion facility staff encouraged her to "figure out a birth-date that works," to obtain the abortion and avoid getting the man in trouble with the police.

That isn't going over well with the abortion business and Mary Jane Wagle, the CEO of Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles sent Rose a letter threatening to sue her.

According to the letter, which LifeNews.com obtained, Wagle claims the videos were made "through false pretenses and unlawfully" and that the conversations they contain "were surreptitiously recorded without the knowledge and consent of PPLA employees."

Was PP's advice legit? Was Rose acting ethically? Hmmm… Here is the clip.

 


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8 responses to “Planned Parenthood Stung on YouTube”

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  2. This just reminds me how much of a “business” Planned Parenthood is. Irrespective of one’s position on the abortion issue this is still despicable behavior on the part of the PP employees.

  3. Wow! This is outrageous and it certainly seems as if there is pretty systematic and organizational wide programmed response to this type of situation.
    Why on earth is PP systematically trying to protect the “boyfriend?” Isn’t it in the best interest of 13 year old ‘girl’ that the 23 year old be subject to prosecution?!? Whose rights and interest are they really trying to protect here, it doesn’t seem like it’s really the ‘s.

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    Planned Parenthood is “caught” on YouTube advising a young woman, posing as a 13 year old, to disguise statutory .

  5. I suspect PP would argue that they are looking after the interest of underage girls. If under age girls wanting abortions were afraid they would get their boyfriends in trouble, then they might be less likely to have abortions that would be in their interests.
    All of that said, they are aiding an abetting statutory rapists by telling these girls to conceal criminal behavior, rather than helping a girl like this get out of this inappropriate relationship.

  6. I’m surprised and shocked that so many counselors from so many states gave the caller the same information and advice. I wonder if their advice is Planned Parenthood policy, or if all of these counselors seriously need to be retrained.

  7. I wonder if this college student used the voices of some of her friends to pretend to be counselors in order to create this video.

  8. Seems unlikely. PP is threatening legal action for illegally recording conversations. That says to me that they believe the recordings are real. Otherwise they would be taking other legal action.

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