Recently, another employee of Planned Parenthood was caught on tape encouraging a minor to lie about her age to get an abortion. When a sophomore at UCLA visited a clinic posing as a pregnant 15-year-old with a 23-year-old boyfriend, the worker replied to her concerns about being underage by saying, “You could say [you're] 16. Just figure out a birth date that works. And I don’t know anything.” The video was posted on YouTube, outraging the CEO of Planned Parenthood’s California affiliates, Kathy Kneer. In an interview, Kneer seemed upset not that the employee was giving illegal advice to a minor, but that she was caught. “We believe the individuals behind this are doing this not out of motivation to protect teens, but in fact to discredit Planned Parenthood.” That’s where Kneer is wrong. When it comes to discrediting Planned Parenthood, the organization needs no help.
More Details Emerge in UCLA-Planned Parenthood Abortion Rape Coverup
Filed under: Apologetics, Politics, Pro-Life
From FRC:
Since our report yesterday about Planned Parenthood’s alleged wrongdoing, the organization is using intimidation to silence critics. In Los Angeles, where a UCLA sophomore–posing as a 15-year-old–secretly videotaped a clinic worker urging her to lie about her age to obtain an abortion, Planned Parenthood has already threatened legal action. On Monday, the local affiliates sent a “cease-and-desist” letter to the student, Lila Rose, warning her that “surreptitious recordings of employees without consent violate California’s privacy laws.” It seems ironic that Planned Parenthood would be quoting the law since the organization appears to have blatantly violated it in refusing to report statutory rape. Under the California penal code, the clinic’s offense carries a much stiffer penalty than that of taping a confidential communication. According to state law, “Any mandated reporter who fails to report an incident of known or reasonably suspected child abuse or neglect … is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months confinement in a county jail or by a fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by both…” By Planned Parenthood’s own admission, any employees who violate the law are also “subject to losing their license.” The organization’s top California official, Kathy Kneer, told reporters that “99.9 percent of the time our employees do follow the law.” That’s a bold pronouncement for the group, which has been implicated in three cases this week alone, including another Ohio case that we lacked the space to detail. In each instance, your taxpayer dollars are helping to keep these Planned Parenthood clinics humming. Yesterday, FRC dug a little deeper into Title X funding data to find that both the clinic that Rose visited in L.A. and the two Ohio clinics receive government grants. Since it’s your money, we believe you should have influence how Uncle Sam spends it. Contact your congressmen and urge them to direct your dollars away from Planned Parenthood and toward organizations that put patients–not profits–first.