Don’t believe your lying eyes, says Planned Parenthood. Or your ears. Just listen to Planned Parenthood. But not too closely.
I know it’s hard to believe but yet another counselor at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Memphis, TN was caught on hidden camera coaching a 14-year-old girl to lie to a judge so he would not find out about her 31-year-old boyfriend so the girl could obtain a waiver for an abortion without her parents’ knowledge. According to news reports, Tennessee law requires health providers to notify law enforcement upon learning a minor has sex with someone over 18 who is at least four years older, felony statutory rape under state law.
This is the sixth Planned Parenthood (PP) clinic busted by Lila Rose in a developing multi-state child abuse scandal, involving the deliberate suppression of evidence of statutory rape by PP employees.
But never you mind what those videos show. Planned Parenthood is shocked…just shocked about these allegations. In fact, they’re so shocked that they’re essentially accusing Lila Rose of misleading people with lots of tricky editing.
Barry Chase, president of Planned Parenthood in Memphis, called the recent video “highly edited” and promised that it was being investigated in The Daily Times.
Chase said he’s written to Lila’s web site and asked for the full unedited tape so they can “figure out what happened.” And all the reporters writing on this story are just repeating what PP says about the dubious nature of the editing and leaving it there.
Except here’s the thing. Lila Rose actually posts the full footage on her website so it’s there for anyone to see at LiveAction.org. Too bad, none of the brain dead reporters could actually lift up the phone and call Lila Rose themselves to ask her. (The Memphis footage will be posted Monday and Live Action as of Friday morning has received nothing from Planned Parenthood.)
You see, I spoke with Lila Rose, the young woman who makes these videos, this morning. I think she’s out in California and I called her at 8:50 a.m. Eastern time which would make it 5:50 a.m. her time. But she was gracious and pretended that she didn’t mind. I felt like a dumb jerk for calling so early but she told me not to worry. But if an idiot like me can get her at 5:50 a.m., why can’t any of these reporters?
And anyway, no matter how edited it is, the PP counselor is still advising a 14 year old girl to lie to a judge. See for yourself.
For months, Lila Rose has been doing a great job exposing Planned Parenthood abortion clinics but the abortion giant has simply obfuscated and attacked Lila Rose herself or simply remained silent.
But things are changing. Now, some legislators are talking about removing federal funding from Big Abortion because of what’s being shown on the videos and Planned Parenthood is responding the only way they can when attacking and lying hasn’t worked. They’re attacking and lying even more.
Lila Rose said that Planned Parenthood has threatened to sue her and they’re issuing “bogus denials” which seems to be standard operating procedure. “Planned Parenthood plays this game. They say they’re investigating this. They say they’re retraining their staff…But they know this is what’s happening. We find it again and again.”
Lila said that she releases all footage to state authorities so there’s no excuse for the state not to act or for PP to pretend that the video is highly edited and misleading.
But here’s the good news: State legislators in Tennessee are citing Lila’s video to support a bill that could end the agency’s $721,000 state contract to provide family planning services in Shelby County.
According to the Commercial Appeal:
Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey joined colleagues Wednesday expressing outrage over actions depicted in a hidden-camera video released Monday by Live Action, a group that opposes abortion. It says the video was shot at the Planned Parenthood clinic on Union Avenue last summer.
Ramsey and sponsors of the bill said the video prompted them to push ahead with a bill this year…
Lila Rose is doing great work. Check it all out at Live Action – A New Media Movement for Life. We should all keep her in our prayers that she continues doing the great work she’s doing. And that she doesn’t get woken up by brain dead bloggers every morning.
April 24, 2009 at 5:21 am
God bless her and protect her. Five gets you ten some nut case will be stalking/threatening her because of the danger to women’s “reproductive rights”. Hope she’s got plenty of friends, big and ugly ones.
April 24, 2009 at 6:46 am
About the Lila Rose video – one thing that is so strikingly, gut-wrenchingly obvious about this is the way in which this whole business sucks us all in and de-humanises us.
I was listening to the woman at the abortion place, and thinking about her in that situation. She sounds as though her native language is Spanish. Perhaps she needed a job, whatever job she could get. And here is this 14-year old kid who wants the abortion but is terrified, apparently, of getting this boyfriend ‘in trouble.’
And the woman talking to her is already morally compromised because of the service she is helping to provide. For her to start talking about the law regarding the age of the boyfriend given the awful reality of what she is legally allowed to provide … I think the whole abortion thing is not just destroying unborn children. It is not only destroying pregnant women who might well, in different circumstances, want to have their babies. It is destroying to some extent all those who work in and around the industry. It is destroying those great masses of people who dislike abortion but who shrug their shoulders and ask, “What can I do?” Two dear friends of mine, Christians both, have this attitude. One voted for Obama because ‘abortion was never going to change’ and she liked other stuff that he said. The other didn’t vote for him – because she thought McCain would do better for the economy!
God have mercy on us all! In the early 1960’s I lived in Los Angeles, when the smog was very bad. Now we live in an all-enveloping moral smog that is much worse, much more killing – and we don’t know what to do about it.
April 24, 2009 at 1:49 pm
This video, among others I have seen, only confirm what I have been trying to get across in my blog for over two years. And that is that the whole abortion business is corrupt. Many of our elected officials have had their elections bought and paid for by abortion pac money. the same people behind abortion is also behind pornography, embryonic stem cell research, evolution, gay rights, and all related evil. I used to be a Democrat years ago when the liberal then was more protective of the unborn. I switched to Independent then to Republican when I moved to Johnson County Kansas when Phill Kline, whom I have met and gotten to know, was fighting the abortion industry. The Democrats lie, distort, deceive, and delay all efforts against abortion, including our present governor. And it is all perpetuated by our naive and uninformed electorate who support those who promise them pie in the sky with someone else’s money. It will take a miracle to clean up the political mess we find ourselves in.
Keep up the good work.
April 24, 2009 at 2:53 pm
I don’t know when she came into town, but Lila was in Cincinnati last night (April 23) to speak at the Pregnancy Center East Banquet for Life. Apparently, there were fairly credible threats against her, so security was pretty beefy around her while she was in Cincinnati.
As someone said: “Here’s a little 120 lb., apparently timid girl; giving the powerful abortion industry the biggest black eye they have ever had.”
Keep it up, Lila, and let her courage and zeal be an example for all of us during this Easter season!
April 24, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Just saw her on Glenn Beck…what a great and courageous person!
April 25, 2009 at 3:50 am
God bless, Lila Rose!
April 25, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Yes, this video is indeed “highly edited”, but that’s because it is for US. Lila gave the FULL FOOTAGE for “them” (planned parenthood) to the state prosecutors. PP is very slimey.
God bless Lila (couldn’t put her name in the same sentence or paragraph as above).
April 26, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Lila is definitely being used by God to accomplish great things. For those who do not know, she was recently received into the Catholic Church just prior to Easter. Please keep her in your prayers not only as she begins her journey in faith as a convert, but also that God will protect her and give her all the strength and graces that she needs – and of course, that hearts will be open and touched by her work.
August 18, 2010 at 6:23 pm
It's unbelievable how society has corrupted these last years, the abortion clinic should be penalized to try to lie in the court.