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</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>on Saturday, June 11, 31 members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front were arrested in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho for allegedly planning to attack a local gay pride event.</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Historian Thomas Lecaque, in an article published by the conservative website The Bulwark on May 13, stresses that this alleged plot shouldn’t be viewed as an isolated incident, but as one example of the far right’s campaign for “overturning democracy.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The arrest of dozens of members of extremist group Patriot Front over the weekend shines a light on the new agenda for the militant factions of the far right,” Lecaque explains. “<b>Their energies are now being focused on another goal: prosecuting a renewed culture war against sexual minorities.</b> Packed tightly into the back of a rented U-Haul truck with their flags and weapons, members of the <b>accelerationist fascist group </b>were en route to the Coeur d’Alene Pride rally when they were pulled over and arrested.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The historian adds, “Police made the stop on the basis of a tip from local residents. Images of the men, kneeling and zip tied in a field next to their truck, spread quickly on social media.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lecaque, a professor at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, describes <b>Patriot Front as part of the openly violent wing of the far right; other examples include the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“As has been the case at other times in history when political instability has drawn extremist groups into open street-fighting — a Proud Boys calling card — these groups represent the sharp end of the ax that the far right is driving into American society,” Lecaque warns. “On January 6, 2021, their goal was to overturn the results of the recent presidential election. In June 2022, however, their goals have shifted.</span>”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Lecaque notes that<b> Patriot Front was founded in 2017 by Thomas Rousseau, who is among the members charged with conspiracy to riot. Rousseau had been a member of Vanguard America,</b> one of the white supremacist and white nationalist groups that was part of the infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia that year. But after that event, where activist Heather Heyer was murdered, Rousseau left Vanguard America to start his own group.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Patriot Front members believe themselves to be the ruling heirs to the continent by dint of their racial connection to its European colonizers and consider their racial identity essential to American identity more broadly,” Lecaque observes. “Of course, this is just the sort of <b>blood genealogy nonsense one expects from Nazis…. What makes them significant, however, is their media savvy.”</b></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lecaque stresses that <b>Patriot Front should be viewed as part of a broader far-right anti-democracy movement.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Patriot Front is just one distinctive group of many,” Lecaque warns. “Other extremist groups gathered in Coeur d’Alene to watch and harass the pride march, including <b>Three Percenters, Ammon’s Army, PDX Liberation, Proud Boys, and Atomwaffen</b>. These groups have their own ideologies, own brands of violence, and many of them — Atomwaffen being an incredibly clear example — are much readier to engage in violence first, foremost, and often.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lecaque adds, “The Coeur d’Alene pride event was not the only target. </span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Christian fascists in Dallas protested at an LGBTQ bar at the beginning of the month as part of a coordinated far-right assault on Pride Month.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> American Nationalist Initiative, a neo-fascist group, planned to link up with Proud Boys</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> to flash mob outside of a<b> Planned Parenthood </b>in Plano, Texas</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">this weekend, while other planned to harass a Pride Drag event in Arlington.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The push for anti-gay violence, according to Lecaque, “goes beyond the White supremacists and militias” — and he cites far-right evangelical pastor Dillon Awes as an example. During a June 5 sermon, Awes called for murdering gays.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Violent fantasies about murdering marginalized communities and overturning democracy are not new,” Lecaque writes. “We have seen them before.”</div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=
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Texas grand jury investigating allegations of misconduct against <a title="Planned Parenthood" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/social-issues/planned-parenthood-ORNPR0000047-topic.html">Planned Parenthood</a>
after the release of covertly-shot videos about the use of fetal tissue
from abortions has instead indicted two antiabortion activists who made
the videos, authorities said Monday.</font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Daleiden, 26, director
of the Irvine-based nonprofit Center for Medical Progress, was indicted
by the grand jury on a felony charge of tampering with a governmental
record and a misdemeanor count related to purchasing human organs,
Harris County Dist. Atty. Devon Anderson said in a statement.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An employee at the center, Sandra Merritt, was also indicted on a charge of tampering with a governmental record.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The
grand jury was investigating recordings made in April at Houston-based
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, according to the district attorney's
statement.</font></p>
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made recordings over a period of three years, using a phony name and
hidden cameras to infiltrate members-only conventions of Planned
Parenthood and other abortion providers. He released the first videos in
July, arguing that they contained evidence of unlawful trafficking in
fetal tissue.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Planned Parenthood has denied the allegations.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After
the recordings were released, more than two dozen states and five
congressional committees began investigations. Most of those have been
closed without criminal findings, and Republicans in Congress were
unsuccessful in their attempt last summer to eliminate funding for the
organization.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Federal law allows fetal tissue to be collected and
used, but not for profit. Medical ethics prohibit altering the timing,
method or procedures used to terminate a pregnancy purely to obtain
fetal tissue.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Planned Parenthood officials have insisted the videos were manipulated through selective editing.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After
meeting for two months, grand jurors cleared Planned Parenthood of
wrongdoing, the district attorney said in her statement. She did not say
what record or records the pair allegedly tampered with.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...
</font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Monday, Planned Parenthood officials praised the Texas grand jury’s findings.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"These
people broke the law to spread malicious lies about Planned Parenthood
in order to advance their extreme antiabortion political agenda,” said
Eric Ferrero, a spokesman for Planned Parenthood Federation of America.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“As
the dust settles and the truth comes out, it's become totally clear
that the only people who engaged in wrongdoing are the criminals behind
this fraud, and we're glad they're being held accountable."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Officials
at the Center for Medical Progress did not immediately respond to calls
and an email seeking comment on the grand jury findings.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But
Daleiden’s lawyers have argued that he is protected under the 1st
Amendment as a self-described “citizen journalist” who believed he was
tracking criminal enterprise.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a Monday opinion piece in <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/01/25/planned-parenthood-abortion-roe-v-wade-center-medical-progress-column/79154292/" target="_blank">USA Today</a>,
Daleiden insisted that the videos “show Planned Parenthood’s senior
leadership partaking in a widespread and organized violation of state
and federal laws forbidding partial-birth abortions and profiteering
from the sale of fetal organs and tissues."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Officials in 11 states
have cleared Planned Parenthood of wrongdoing after investigating
claims that they profited from fetal tissue donation, officials said,
including Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Washington.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Officials
in eight other states declined to investigate citing a lack of any
evidence, including California, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa,
Minnesota, New Hampshire and Virginia.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But several states are still investigating, including Arizona, Louisiana, Montana and Texas, Planned Parenthood officials said.</font></p><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Nothing
about today’s announcement in Harris County impacts the state’s ongoing
investigation,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in a statement late Monday.</font></b></p><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Texas Atty. Gen. Ken Paxton agreed.</font></b></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The
fact remains that the videos exposed the horrific nature of abortion
and the shameful disregard for human life of the abortion industry,”
Paxton said. “The state’s investigation of Planned Parenthood is
ongoing.”</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>Echoing the activists’ allegation, Speaker John A. Boehner and other top Republicans suggested that Planned Parenthood was selling fetal parts, which is illegal if done for profit. But Planned Parenthood said that while it charges for expenses such as processing and transporting, it makes no money from the fetal tissue donated by women who get abortions. The official shown in the video repeatedly says something similar to two activists posing as biotechnology representatives.</div><div>
</div><div>The California-based group responsible for the video, the Center for Medical Progress, appears to have been started relatively recently. Its creator, David Daleiden, once worked with another anti-abortion group, Live Action, and he and Live Action’s leader, Lila Rose, who also promoted the video, are familiar to Planned Parenthood affiliates from previous undercover videos. Mr. Daleiden and Ms. Rose did not return calls and emails on Wednesday.</div><div>
</div><div>The release of the video and subsequent House investigation opens a new round in the partisan wars over Planned Parenthood that have raged since the Republicans took control of the House four and a half years ago. This time, Republicans running for president eagerly joined in, promising to stoke the furor, as anti-abortion conservatives took to social media to demand action.</div><div>
</div><div>Past battles provoked backlashes against congressional Republicans and against Mitt Romney, the party’s presidential nominee in 2012. But even before the video began circulating online, Republicans had moved to cut all money for Planned Parenthood and the Title X family-planning program from a spending bill awaiting a House vote.</div><div>
</div><div>“When an organization monetizes an unborn child — and with the cavalier attitude portrayed in this horrific video — we must all act,” Mr. Boehner said in a statement.</div><div>
</div><div>Four senior Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which will conduct the investigation, said in a statement that they would “get to the bottom of this appalling situation.” Two Republican governors ordered investigations in their states: Greg Abbott of Texas and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, who is a presidential candidate.</div><div>
</div><div>Other Republican contenders for president condemned Planned Parenthood, including Jeb Bush, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Carly Fiorina and Rick Perry. Another candidate, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, drew the most applause during a campaign stop in South Carolina on Wednesday when he boasted of having defunded Planned Parenthood in his state.</div><div>
</div><div>A spokesman for Planned Parenthood, Eric Ferrero, said in a statement that the Republicans’ claims were “flat out” untrue, “but that doesn’t matter to politicians with a longstanding political agenda to ban abortion and defund Planned Parenthood.”</div><div>
</div><div>“Our medical practices and guidelines in this area are clear,” he added, “and we do this important work just like other high-quality health care providers — with full, appropriate consent from patients, under the highest ethical and legal standards, and with no financial benefit for the patient or Planned Parenthood.”</div><div>
</div><div>But the companies that acquire such tissue from Planned Parenthood can command high prices, depending on the processing required, given the demand among researchers.</div><div>
</div><div>“These tissues are very valuable for studying human development and finding out what makes it tick,” said Dr. Susan Fisher, who directs the Human Embryonic Stem Cell Program at the University of California, San Francisco. “Can we reprogram cells in the same way to repair disease processes? Can we have a better understanding of the sort of haywire development that accompanies some tumors?”</div><div>
</div><div>“A lot of women want to make these donations” in the hope that useful information can be gained, Dr. Fisher added.</div><div>
</div><div>The National Institutes of Health spent $76 million in 2014 on research involving human fetal tissue, and it expects to spend the same amount this year. Researchers at universities with medical centers that perform abortions may obtain fetal tissue there, but private companies also act as middlemen, obtaining tissue from abortion providers and selling it to researchers.</div><div>
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</font><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">, Cecile Richards, the 58-year-old president and CEO of Planned Parenthood, went before Congress to defend her organization. A few months earlier, the Center for Medical Progress, an undercover anti-abortion group, had released a series of doctored videos that purported to show Planned Parenthood illegally profiting from the sale of fetal tissue. Planned Parenthood denied the accusations, but outrage spiraled furiously among conservatives. Republican officials launched state and federal investigations, while presidential candidates and members of Congress called for defunding Planned Parenthood entirely, threatening to shut down the government if their demands were not met.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Riding this whirlwind of righteous anger, Republicans eagerly anticipated their confrontation with Richards. Yet when she came before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Republicans suddenly found Richards grilling them, not the other way around. “Mr. Chairman, you and I do disagree about whether women should have access to safe and legal abortion,” she said, staring into the eyes of Jason Chaffetz, the Republican from Utah who chaired the hearing. “At Planned Parenthood, we believe that women should be able to make their own decision about their pregnancies and their futures—and the majority of Americans agree. We trust women to make these decisions in consultation with their families, their doctors, and their faith, and not by Congress.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A week later, Chaffetz admitted that after formally investigating Planned Parenthood, he and his colleagues had been unable to find any evidence of financial wrongdoing. Eight states that launched their own investigations have also failed to produce any smoking guns. The absence of evidence, however, hasn’t deterred GOP-controlled state governments from attempting to cut funds for Planned Parenthood, or moderated Republicans’ demonization of the organization.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These attacks, though, have only inspired Planned Parenthood’s supporters to rally to its defense. Three days before Richards testified, a progressive coalition delivered a petition in support of Planned Parenthood to Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and Senator Elizabeth Warren; it had more than 1.2 million signatures. On the day of Richards’s testimony, hundreds of thousands of advocates across the country organized rallies and Internet campaigns to demonstrate solidarity, in what would be Planned Parenthood’s first ever “National Pink Out Day.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The clout and moral credibility that Planned Parenthood has added under Richards’ leadership were evident this week, too, when Republican plans to use the budget resolution to defund the organization and curtail abortion rights largely came to naught. A unified Democratic Party was also able to derail GOP proposals to reduce spending on women’s health and family planning. </font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2016, the battle over reproductive rights will almost surely grow more intense. The Supreme Court is set to rule on two major cases: one concerning contraception coverage, and the other on abortion access. The latter, both sides agree, may be the most consequential case for abortion rights since 1992, when the high court ruled that states could not impose an “undue burden” on women who wish to end a pregnancy. State legislatures, which enacted 288 abortion restrictions between 2011 and 2015, will no doubt continue to test the limits of what such “undue burdens” really mean.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2016 also marks the centennial anniversary of Planned Parenthood, an organization that has become the target of an anti-abortion movement that steadily grows more aggressive and violent. The FBI reported an increase in the number of arson attacks and vandalism incidents at abortion clinics in the wake of the Center for Medical Progress videos, and the president of the National Abortion Federation said abortion providers have seen “an unprecedented increase in hate speech and threats” since the videos were released. In late November, a man opened fire in a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, injuring nine people, and killing three. After the shooting, the suspected gunman invoked the doctored videos, telling local authorities, “no more baby parts.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Richards, who has spent a decade at Planned Parenthood’s helm, toils at ground zero of the culture wars being fought across the country. Every day she is flooded with hundreds of hateful messages on social media, calling her evil, a Nazi, a monster, a murderer. In 2006, Jim Sedlak, the vice president of American Life League and one of the nation’s most ardent Planned Parenthood critics, predicted she would never last more than a year or so as Planned Parenthood’s leader. (A mere “place holder” president, he dubbed her.)</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet ten years later, Richards remains self-assured in her post, guiding the nation’s largest reproductive-rights organization through the most politically fraught period it’s ever faced. She comes well-suited for the challenge. Richards brings to her role decades of experience in political organizing, and a career as a premier coalition builder across liberal America. She brings as well a strategic and moral vision that has impelled her to push Planned Parenthood beyond where it’s been, to lead more forcefully in the broader cultural and economic battles for women’s autonomy and equality.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">IN 2006, JUST THREE WEEKS after Richards started her new job as Planned Parenthood’s president, South Dakota’s governor signed a bill outlawing abortion, the nation’s first state-legislated ban. (It was soon struck down in federal court.) “Listen, the reason I took this job is, I feel like we need to go into the 21st century,” she told The Washington Post that year. “Clearly, with some folks in the country, we're going to get there kicking and screaming.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hiring Richards, in many ways, signified a new moment for Planned Parenthood. The abortion issue had been growing increasingly more politicized and polarized since the mid-1980s. (In the 1970s, the share of pro-life Democrats actually exceeded that of Republicans.) The partisan polarization of recent decades first became evident in 1984, and by the 1990s, political scientists were noticing a new and statistically significant relationship between voters’ abortion attitudes and whom they cast their ballot for in elections.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The three presidents who preceded Richards came in with backgrounds in health care, nursing, and Planned Parenthood itself. Richards’s resume, on the other hand, listed years of experience in organizing, campaigning, and electoral politics. While Planned Parenthood had been inching toward political advocacy in the 15 years before Richards arrived, she came in prepared to steer Planned Parenthood to the front lines.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px; line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since undercover videos that captured Planned Parenthood staff discussing fetal tissue donations were released <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/planned-parenthood-sting-videos-explained" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 0, 0);">last month</a>, GOP officials in more than 10 states have clamored to launch investigations into the organization. On Tuesday, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley joined that group, ordering her state's health department to review the policies and practices of all abortion clinics in the state, including the three operated by Planned Parenthood.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px; line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"These practices are not consistent with the laws or character of our state," Haley<a href="http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/29826606/gov-haley-responds-to-planned-parenthood-issues-in-letter-to-dhec" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 0, 0);">wrote</a> in her letter to the state agency tasked with regulating abortion clinics, adding that it "cannot allow an organization with broken internal oversight and a flawed corporate culture to behave the way Planned Parenthood has in other states."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px; line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the videos, recorded surreptitiously and <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/planned-parenthood-sting-videos-explained" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 0, 0);">released</a> by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress, Planned Parenthood officials talk frankly about the organization's tissue donation program and the costs associated with donating fetal tissue from an abortion. Though fetal tissue donation is a long-standing and legal practice in the United States, and has contributed to medical advancements like the polio vaccine, conservatives have used the videos to attack the health care organization, saying they provide evidence that Planned Parenthood illegally profits from the sale of aborted fetuses. And they've pushed for investigations to unmask this purported criminal wrongdoing.</font></p><center class="ebz_native_center" style="line-height: 25px; overflow: hidden; height: 0px; margin: auto; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><div id="ebzNative" /></div></center><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px; line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But so far, those investigations are falling flat. Completed probes in <a href="http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/08/13/georgia-south-dakota-investigations-conclude-wrongdoing-planned-parenthood/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 0, 0);">Georgia</a>, <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/14e6280c406a4d21920c5594107dfdc4/indiana-clears-planned-parenthood-wrongdoing-after-videos" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 0, 0);">Indiana</a>, <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/07/29/healey-mass-planned-parenthood-fully-compliant-with-law/Fc6pYYrY1ONGQvRTEqkWHK/story.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 0, 0);">Massachusetts</a>, and South Dakota have spent thousands in taxpayer money but turned up no evidence that Planned Parenthood is trafficking in the sale of fetal tissue.<strong> </strong>And in most of the other states that have launched investigations—including <a href="http://fox8.com/2015/07/16/ohio-attorney-general-orders-probe-of-planned-parenthood/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ohio</a>, <a href="http://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2015/07/20/ducey-orders-investigation-into-planned-parenthood-arizona" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 0, 0);">Arizona</a>, <a href="http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/07/30/farce-strong-enough-word-describe-outrageous-planned-parenthood-hearing-texas-legislature/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 0, 0);">Texas</a>, and <a href="http://www.startribune.com/apnewsbreak-no-kansas-reports-on-fetal-tissue-in-15-years/320951361/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 0, 0);">Kansas</a>—Planned Parenthood affiliates don't even have fetal tissue donation programs, making it hard to believe the states will find any illegal activity related to the practice. In Louisiana, where Gov. Bobby Jindal <a href="http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/07/bobby_jindal_planned_parenthoo.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 0, 0);">ordered</a> an investigation in mid-July, Planned Parenthood does not even operate a single abortion clinic.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px; line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"In every state where these investigations have concluded, officials have cleared Planned Parenthood of any wrongdoing," Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/state-investigations-planned-parenthood_55ce0c00e4b0ab468d9d1490?q21n61or" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 0, 0);">told</a> the <em>Huffington Post</em>. "We've said all along that Planned Parenthood follows all laws and has very high medical standards, and that's what every one of these investigations has found."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px; line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Not every governor has taken the bait. Democratic governors in <a href="http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/07/24/minnesota-governor-denounces-gop-grandstanding-planned-parenthood-attack-videos/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 0, 0);">Minnesota</a> and <a href="http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/article_f1950b73-99ef-5033-82f1-0807ac6359f1.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 0, 0);">Virginia</a> have rejected state legislators' pleas to look into the group, saying they won't waste time investigating programs that don't exist in their states.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px; line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"As far as I'm concerned, there's no basis for an investigation at taxpayer expense into a private nonprofit organization that has stated they don't engage in those practices," Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton told local reporters after he received a letter from GOP lawmakers asking him to take action.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.8em 0px; line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other states have taken another approach since the release of the videos: Governors in Alabama and Arkansas, along with Louisiana's Jindal, have <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/health-care/states-can-t-end-medicaid-funding-of-planned-parenthood-20150817" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 0, 0);">moved</a> to block Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, which they may not be able to do under federal law. Meanwhile, public opinion of the organization remains high. A recent <em>NBC News/Wall Street Journal</em> <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/how-public-views-planned-parenthood-nra-n403451" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 0, 0);">poll</a> found that despite weeks of bad news, Planned Parenthood is still more popular than every major 2016 presidential contender, the NRA, and the Supreme Court.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div class="entry-content" style="border: 0px; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lawmakers have used the videos to justify calling for Congress to ban Planned Parenthood<a href="http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/07/24/senate-fast-tracks-bill-defund-planned-parenthood/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">from receiving federal funds</a> for services unrelated to abortion. State lawmakers in Texas <a href="http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/07/30/farce-strong-enough-word-describe-outrageous-planned-parenthood-hearing-texas-legislature/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">held a hearing Wednesday</a> to investigate the issue, even though Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas don’t currently collect fetal tissue for donation in medical research. Lawmakers across the country have compared Planned Parenthood to everything <a href="http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/07/29/nationwide-anti-choice-ralliers-liken-planned-parenthood-crack-dealers-auschwitz/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">from drug dealers to Nazis</a>.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Elected officials need to listen to the public outcry for an immediate moratorium on Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding while the 10 state investigations and 3 Congressional committees determine the full extent of Planned Parenthood’s sale of baby parts.” <a href="http://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/2015/07/planned-parenthood-vp-says-fetuses-may-come-out-intact-agrees-payments-specific-to-the-specimen/" rel="external" title="(Open in new tab) " class="ext-link" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Daleiden said in a statement</a>.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reproductive rights advocates, however, have called the videos a “smear campaign” and harmful to women seeking abortion care. “To the right, they want to stamp out abortion by stamping out Planned Parenthood. But what they really want is to stamp out our ability to make the most personal, private decisions about our lives. They are using the latest campaign to shut down Planned Parenthood to do just that,” <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/07/12895/attack-planned-parenthood-view-inside-alec" rel="external" title="(Open in new tab) " class="ext-link" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">said</a> Wisconsin Rep. Chris Taylor (D-Madison) in an op-ed for the Center for Media and Democracy’s <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PR Watch.</em></font></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Questions also have been raised about <a href="http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/07/20/daleiden-group-routinely-used-alcohol-pry-information-targets/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">CMP’s deceptive tactics</a>, <a href="http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/07/17/group-behind-planned-parenthood-attack-anti-choice-radicals/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">ideological agenda</a>, and<a href="http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/07/17/board-member-behind-planned-parenthood-video-close-ties-abortion-clinic-violence/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">connections to radical and violent anti-choice activists</a>.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/07/28/exclusive-faces-fake-names-people-behind-planned-parenthood-attack-videos/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">An <i>RH Reality Check</i> investigation</a> found that Daleiden and his associates may have violated California and federal laws—including forgery, credit card fraud, and identity theft—when filming the videos.</font></p></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=
</font><div class="headline" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="node-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What the Planned Parenthood Hoax Really Proves: Right-Wing Extremists Have No Qualms About Destroying Peoples’ Lives</font></h1></div><div class="byline story" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em>By</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em><a href="http://www.alternet.org/authors/bob-cesca" style="">Bob Cesca</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="print-footnote">[1]</span></em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>/<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="field field-name-field-sources field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden"><span class="field-items"><span class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.salon.com/" style="">Salon</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="print-footnote">[2]</span></span></span></span></font></div><div class="story-date" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em><span class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-hidden"><span class="field-items"><span class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" content="2015-07-18T07:53:00-07:00">July 18, 2015</span></span></span></span></em></font></div><div class="top-tools" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="left"><div class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://www.alternet.org/print/what-planned-parenthood-hoax-really-proves-right-wing-extremists-have-no-qualms-about-destroying" data-title="What the Planned Parenthood Hoax Really Proves: Right-Wing Extremists Have No Qualms About Destroying Peoples’ Lives @alternet"><div id="atstbx" class="at-share-tbx-element addthis_32x32_style addthis-smartlayers addthis-animated at4-show" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; display: block !important; opacity: 1 !important; animation-fill-mode: both; animation-duration: 1s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
They say a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on. That’s certainly the case with a new and highly deceptive anti-choice propaganda video that claims to show a Planned Parenthood official caught on a hidden camera while allegedly discussing how the women’s health clinics are involved with the harvesting and selling of aborted fetus organs via a sordid underground black market.</font></div></div></div></div><div class="the_body body_story clearfix" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the video, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood’s senior director of medical services, is seen eating salad and drinking a glass of red wine as she discusses what the selectively edited video would lead us to believe is the process of acquiring intact organs from aborted fetuses and then selling them to buyers. Nucatola describes the most desirable organs, as well as the admittedly disturbing manner by which the fetuses are aborted in a way that doesn’t damage the organs that are to be harvested. She also appears to discuss the prices that buyers pay for a particular fetal organ.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As we’ve seen with similar “gotcha!” videos, this one completely misrepresents what Nucatola was discussing, and numerous sites have almost too-easily debunked just about every claim. (Full debunkery <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/44832_The_Huge_Right_Wing_Anti-Choice_Fake_Outrage_of_the_Day" style="">here</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="print-footnote">[3]</span>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/07/14/attack-on-planned-parenthood-3-deceptive-edits/204419" style="">here</a><span class="print-footnote">[4]</span>, <a href="http://wonkette.com/591066/why-is-planned-parenthood-selling-your-babby-for-scrap-oh-right-its-not" style="">here</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="print-footnote">[5]</span> and <a href="http://m.snopes.com/pp-baby-parts-sale/" style="">here</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="print-footnote">[6]</span>.) It turns out, Nucatola wasn’t discussing the illegal black market sale of fetal organs, but instead the perfectly legal donation of the organs to biomedical research laboratories that use the organs to help save lives. The price range of the organs described by Nucatola is, in reality, the reimbursed expenses accrued in the delivery of the specimens. (Which makes sense: $30 to $100 is hilariously below the going rate for human organs.) Furthermore, the video was produced by an anti-choice pop-up outfit called the Center for Medical Progress, which not only claimed that this one video required three years of research, but which also has ties to known video fraudster James O’Keefe.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet as rapidly as the video was resoundingly debunked as a fraud, it wasn’t fast enough to catch up with the zealous haste of the lies.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As soon as the video hit The Daily Caller and The Drudge Report, it was pretty much game over for the already beleaguered Planned Parenthood. Social media immediately erupted with garment rending and all varieties of unhinged screeching over what too many gullible viewers perceived as the ultimate smoking gun indictment of the organization. Anyone pointing out the obviously deceptive editing and the false claims made by the video were attacked as ghouls, Nazis and baby-killers.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The intensity of the outrage closely matched the degree of the flimflam. Anti-choice activists wanted desperately to believe the video was an accurate representation of what Planned Parenthood is up to behind the scenes, so they overlooked the obvious scare-edits and manipulative soundtrack. Clinically speaking, the video is cleverly produced, even though it’s really easy to make abortion sound creepy. That said, it flagrantly exploits the worst and most ignorant aspects of social media: the utter lack of critical viewing, the impulse to rapidly retweet clickbait without reading, and especially the internet’s torch-and-pitchfork mob justice.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the Tuesday edition of <a href="http://www.bobcesca.com/" style="">my podcast</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="print-footnote">[7]</span>, I predicted that in addition to the radical far-right mob, the video would also be accepted at face value by A-list Republicans and especially the congressional GOP. And why not? It’s happened before. Congress buried ACORN based on a provably fake video. Planned Parenthood has been relentlessly de-funded due to previously fraudulent videos. Indeed, members of the most powerful governing body in the world spoke on-the-record from the floor of both the House and Senate and permanently attached their names to more than one egregiously fake smear video. Legislation was passed and livelihoods were ruined because congressional Republicans were repeatedly duped by James O’Keefe and his acolytes.</font></p><div data-toggle-group="story-14018296"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sadly, my prediction came true on Wednesday when Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/house-committee-to-investigate-planned-parenthood-organ-harvesting-video/" style="">announced</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="print-footnote">[8]</span> they’d hold hearings on the video.</font></p><blockquote><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This video is abhorrent and rips at the heart. The committee will get to the bottom of this appalling situation,” the press release quotes Republican lawmakers Fred Upton, Marsha Blackburn, Tim Murphy, and Joe Pitts as saying.</font></p></blockquote><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Again, taxpayer money will be wasted on an investigation into Planned Parenthood based on a video that was debunked within 24 hours of dropping. Even anti-choice Americans ought to be outraged by this total waste of resources. But they won’t be because now the “respected” members of an elite governing body of 535 powerful Americans have announced that this mendacious video is, in fact, “abhorrent” and “appalling.” So, now, the video is endowed with the legitimacy of a congressional committee.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, several GOP presidential hopefuls have <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/14/gop-candidates-react-to-undercover-video-of-planned-parenthood/" style="">condemned</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="print-footnote">[9]</span> Planned Parenthood for the (misleading) content of the video.</font></p><blockquote><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The video showing a Planned Parenthood employee selling the body parts of aborted children is a disturbing reminder of the organization’s penchant for profiting off the tragedy of a destroyed human life,” said former Texas Gov. Rick Perry.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Today’s video of a Planned Parenthood official discussing the systematic harvesting and trafficking of human body parts is shocking and gruesome,” said Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. [...]</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This latest news is tragic and outrageous,” said businesswoman Carly Fiorina. “This isn’t about ‘choice.’ It’s about profiting on the death of the unborn while telling women it’s about empowerment.”</font></p></blockquote><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We seriously have to question whether any of these Republicans have given their bank account information to Nigerian princes with dubious Hotmail email accounts. I hate to be a Debbie Downer, Republicans, but guess what? Professional wrestling is fake and the Easter bunny isn’t real. Sorry.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Arguably the worst aspect of this scam video, beyond the harm it will do to reproductive rights and Planned Parenthood, is the reality that Dr. Nucatela’s life is all but ruined for the foreseeable future. At this moment, anti-choice extremists are likely fanning out around the internet, collecting damaging information about her; finding out her home address and contact information; discovering whether she has children and where they go to school; planning rallies outside her house; or worse. Based on wrongful charges, she now represents Enemy Number One for googly-eyed radicals, fueled by visions of aborted fetuses and the false impression of Planned Parenthood as the Walmart of black market fetus organs.</font></p></div></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">nyt</font></div><div><div class="timestamp" style="margin-top: 15px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">February 2, 2011</font></div><div class="kicker" style="text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 15px; line-height: 1.4em;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.083em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><nyt_headline version="1.0" type=" ">Anti-Abortion Groups Step Up Campaign Against Planned Parenthood</nyt_headline></font></h1><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><nyt_headline version="1.0" type=" ">
</nyt_headline></font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><nyt_byline><h6 class="byline" style="margin: 2px 0px; line-height: 1.2em;">By <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/e/erik_eckholm/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More Articles by Erik Eckholm" class="meta-per" style="text-decoration: none;">ERIK ECKHOLM</a> and <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/jennifer_medina/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More Articles by Jennifer Medina" class="meta-per" style="text-decoration: none;">JENNIFER MEDINA</a></h6><h6 class="byline" style="margin: 2px 0px; line-height: 1.2em;">
</h6></nyt_byline><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><nyt_text><div id="articleBody"><nyt_correction_top><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;"><b><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/p/planned_parenthood_federation_of_america/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about Planned Parenthood Federation of America" class="meta-org" style="text-decoration: none;">Planned Parenthood</a> has fired a clinic manager who was seen on videotape advising a man posing as a sex trafficker, and anti-<a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/surgery/abortion/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Abortion." class="meta-classifier" style="text-decoration: none;">abortion</a> groups seized on the episode to step up their campaign to cut off public financing for the organization.</b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;">The manager was videotaped covertly in a clinic in Perth Amboy, N.J., by actors working for an anti-abortion group, <a title="Live Action web site that includes new undercover videotape." href="http://liveaction.org/" style="text-decoration: none;">Live Action</a>. The manager gave advice on how to get medical care for under-age prostitutes. The tape’s release on Tuesday embarrassed Planned Parenthood, which provides contraceptives, gynecological care, <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/cancer/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Cancer." class="meta-classifier" style="text-decoration: none;">cancer</a> screening and abortions across the country, mainly to low-income women.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;">The <a href="http://www.plannedparenthood.org/" style="text-decoration: none;">Planned Parenthood Federation of America</a> said that immediately after the “highly unusual” visit, its affiliate had notified prosecutors.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;">The organization said last week that people claiming to be sex traffickers visited at least 12 of its clinics in six states in January and that it had concluded that the visits were a hoax by Live Action. But Planned Parenthood officials expressed dismay at the statements of the office manager in the videotape, and fired her on Tuesday night.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;">“We were profoundly shocked when we viewed the videotape,” Phyllis Kinsler, chief executive of the agency’s central New Jersey branch, said in a statement. Ms. Kinsler said the tape “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.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;">Stuart Schear, vice president for communications of the national federation, said in an interview on Wednesday that Planned Parenthood had “zero tolerance” for unethical behavior and that the behavior filmed in the video was “very isolated.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;">“We cannot lose sight of the bigger picture that we have opponents who are in many cases opposed to <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/specialtopic/birth-control-and-family-planning/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Birth Control and Family Planning." class="meta-classifier" style="text-decoration: none;">birth control</a>, honest sex education and legal abortion, and are coordinating with allies on Capitol Hill to defund Planned Parenthood,” Mr. Schear said.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;">On Wednesday, a large number of anti-abortion groups including Live Action announced a new campaign called “<a href="http://www.exposeplannedparenthood.com/" style="text-decoration: none;">Expose Planned Parenthood</a>,” tied to the videotape, which will promote a bill now before the House of Representatives that would cut the more than $75 million in federal money that Planned Parenthood affiliates receive each year for family planning.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;">Federal compensation for abortion is already outlawed, but conservative groups attack Planned Parenthood for including abortions among its services.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;">Some critics go further. In the videotape and some previous incidents, Planned Parenthood officials “collaborated with the exploitation of young girls,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/susan_b_anthony/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Susan B. Anthony." class="meta-per" style="text-decoration: none;">Susan B. Anthony</a> List, an anti-abortion group that is helping to organize the de-financing campaign, in an interview Wednesday. “They don’t have institutional controls to prevent this.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;">Mr. Schear of Planned Parenthood said that abortion accounts for only 3 percent of the organization’s health services and that the federal money under attack goes toward family planning and <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/specialtopic/preventive-health-care/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Preventive health care." class="meta-classifier" style="text-decoration: none;">preventive health care</a> for women, “including many low-income women who have relied on our services for decades.” He said that Planned Parenthood and affiliates received a total of about $363 million a year from federal, state and local governments combined.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>The video was produced by 22-year-old Lila Rose, who runs Live Action.</b> It shows a woman identified as Amy Woodruff, the office manager, responding to an unseen man and woman. The man says he is involved in sex work and wants to bring girls, some only 14 or 15 and illegal immigrants, for medical exams.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The manager says that 14-year-old girls should not admit their ages, because doing so triggers extra reporting requirements. “For the most part, we want as little information as possible,” she says. Asked if the girls can obtain abortions, the manager replies that if they are under 15, they should go to another clinic where “their protocols are not as strict as ours.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;">The new video resembles <a title="Times article" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/us/politics/16acorn.html?scp=1&sq=Conservatives%20Draw%20Blood%20From%20Acorn,%20Favored%20Foe&st=cse" style="text-decoration: none;">those made in 2009 by a conservative activist, James O’Keefe, in which employees of the community group Acorn gave tax advise to a man posing as a pimp</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;">Ms. Rose worked in the past with Mr. O’Keefe on undercover videos in Planned Parenthood offices but says she has not worked with him in recent years. He is serving three years’ probation after being arrested for entering the New Orleans office of Senator Mary Landrieu under false pretenses, with the purpose of committing a felony.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;"><a title="Times article" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/us/politics/27landrieu.html?ref=jamesokeefe" style="text-decoration: none;">In a statement on Wednesday, Ms. Rose indicated that her group had other damaging materials. “Soon, we will be releasing more evidence to law enforcement officials and the public showing that Planned Parenthood is willing to aid and abet sexual exploitation of minors and young women,” she said.</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;"><a title="Times article" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/us/politics/27landrieu.html?ref=jamesokeefe" style="text-decoration: none;">Lila Rose’s videos first made headlines in 2007, when, as a freshman at the </a><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_california/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about the University of California." class="meta-org" style="text-decoration: none;">University of California, Los Angeles</a>, she went undercover to an abortion clinic in California and told workers that she was 15 years old and pregnant by a 23-year-old man. By law, clinic employees should have reported the incident as statutory <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/specialtopic/rape/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Rape." class="meta-classifier" style="text-decoration: none;">rape</a> but did not do so.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;">That video propelled her into the embrace of anti-abortion activists. Now, at 22, she has achieved a sort of celebrity status in some conservative circles — <a href="http://www.facebook.com/lilagracerose" style="text-decoration: none;">her Facebook updates</a> are followed by nearly 5,000 fans.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;">“We were thrilled when we saw that she was doing something so new and exciting and creative,” said Rev. Patrick Mahoney, who runs the Christian Defense Coalition, a Washington-based advocacy group. “The fact that she was not someone like me in her mid-50s, but a young bright student, really added to the impact.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;">Ms. Rose graduated from U.C.L.A. in December with a bachelor’s degree in history. During her time there, the university’s Live Action chapter (one of four in California) organized a “Genocide Awareness Project” in the campus center. According to the group’s <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/facebook_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about Facebook." class="meta-org" style="text-decoration: none;">Facebook</a> page, the display showed “the disturbing parallels between abortion and past genocides like the Holocaust and Rwanda, as well as the lynching in the Jim Crow South.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;">Ms. Rose declined to be interviewed. But she used <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/twitter/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about Twitter." class="meta-org" style="text-decoration: none;">Twitter</a> and Facebook to claim a victory against Planned Parenthood, telling followers that its decision to fire the office manager pointed to “much broader and more endemic” problems in the organization.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;">Mr. Schear replied: “We’re staying focused on giving women the health care they need and deserve.”</p><nyt_correction_bottom style=""><div class="articleCorrection" style="font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 2.8em;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;"><span class="italic" style="line-height: 22px;">This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;"><strong style="line-height: 22px;">Correction: February 10, 2011</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;"><span class="italic" style="line-height: 22px;" /></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px;">An article on Feb. 3 about Planned Parenthood’s firing of a clinic manager who was seen on videotape advising a man posing as a sex trafficker referred incorrectly to charges against an activist known for making similar undercover videos in the offices of the community group Acorn. The activist, James O’Keefe, was charged in 2010 with entering the New Orleans office of Senator Mary Landrieu under false pretenses, with the purpose of committing a felony; he was never explicitly accused by the authorities of planning to tamper with the senator’s telephones. (The error also appeared in an article on March 27, 2010, about charges in the case.)</p></div></nyt_correction_bottom></nyt_correction_top></div></nyt_text></span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Live Action</b> is an anti-abortion group that in 2011 produced a hoax "sting" video to target <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Planned_Parenthood" title="Planned Parenthood">Planned Parenthood</a>. The video was similar to those produced by conservative activist <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_O%27Keefe" title="James O'Keefe">James O'Keefe</a>, who in 2009 made heavily edited video targeting the community group <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ACORN" title="ACORN" class="mw-redirect">ACORN</a>. Live Action is run by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lila_Rose" title="Lila Rose">Lila Rose</a>, who produced the anti-Planned Parenthood video. Rose previously worked with O'Keefe producing undercover videos of Planned Parenthood offices.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Live_Action#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a></sup></font></p>
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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_O%27Keefe" title="James O'Keefe">James O'Keefe</a></font></li>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Live Action
117 Bernal Road, #70-153
San Jose</span>, CA 95119
Web page: <a href="http://liveaction.org/" class="external free" title="http://liveaction.org/" rel="nofollow">http://liveaction.org/</a>
Phone: (323) 454-3304</font>
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<li id="cite_note-0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Live_Action#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> Eric Eckholm, Jennifer Medina <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/us/03parenthood.html?partner=rss&emc=rss" class="external text" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/us/03parenthood.html?partner=rss&emc=rss" rel="nofollow">Anti-Abortion Groups Step Up Campaign Against Planned Parenthood</a>, New York Times, February 2, 2011</font></li>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Lila Rose</b> is a conservative activist and anti-abortion videographer whose work is promoted by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Andrew_Breitbart" title="Andrew Breitbart">Andrew Breitbart</a>. Her goals are to undermine organizations that provide legal abortions and de-fund <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Planned_Parenthood" title="Planned Parenthood">Planned Parenthood</a>. She is president of the anti-abortion group <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Live_Action" title="Live Action">Live Action</a>. Rose likened herself to Martin Luther King, Jr. in a CNN documentary called "Right on the Edge." At the November, 2009 Value Voters Summit, she said that as long as abortions are legal, they should be "done in the public square," thus disgusting people into action. And then "we might hear angels singing as we ponder the glory of conception." <sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lila_Rose#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lila_Rose#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lila_Rose#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a></sup></font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Lila Rose is a colleague of conservative activist <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_O%27Keefe" title="James O'Keefe">James O'Keefe</a>.</span> As a UCLA freshman in autumn of 2006, she and O'Keefe came up with the idea of infiltrating clinics. Rose and O'Keefe, both told the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> that they were inspired by the work of Mark Crutcher, a Texas antiabortion activist who in 2002 taped fake calls to hundreds of Planned Parenthood clinics around the country featuring women posing as pregnant minors.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lila_Rose#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a></sup></font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2006 Rose has carried out undercover "sting" visits at Planned Parenthood clinics in Los Angeles, Indianapolis, Bloomington, Tucson, Phoenix and Memphis. She makes hidden camera videos as she and a friend pose as abortion-seeking young teens who have been impregnated by older men. Rose's videos are then edited down to about boiled five minutes, and are enhanced with portentous music and fast cuts to heighten the drama. Rose them posts the videos on her website, LiveAction.org, and on YouTube.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lila_Rose#cite_note-4" title="">[5]</a></sup></font></p>
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<h4><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong><em>Americans United for Life</em></strong></font></h4>
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Americans United For Life: "The First National Pro-Life Organization In The United States."</strong> From Americans United for Life's website:</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Founded in 1971 as the first national pro-life organization in the United States, Americans United for Life (AUL) is a nonprofit, public-interest law and policy organization whose vision is a nation in which everyone is welcomed in life and protected in law. [...]</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Currently, we are working with pro-life lawmakers to compose and pass legislation that would:</font></p>
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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mandate standards for abortion clinics to protect the health and safety of women and correct often substandard conditions.</font></li>
<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Protect the rights of conscience of all healthcare professionals.</font></li>
<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Protect parental rights, ensuring parents and guardians are involved in medical decisions of children.</font></li>
<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Protect unborn victims from criminal violence, including homicide.</font></li>
<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ban all forms of human cloning.</font></li>
<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Promote adult stem cell, cord blood and other forms of life-affirming stem cell research.</font></li>
<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prevent euthanasia and assisted suicide.</font></li>
<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Inform women of the health risks of abortion including the link between abortion and breast cancer.</font></li>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Americans United for Life, accessed <a href="http://www.aul.org/about-aul/printpage/">10/6/11</a>]</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Stearns Launched Investigation After He "Was Asked To Look Into Planned Parenthood By Americans United For Life."</strong> According to the <em>Florida Independent</em>: "Florida Congressman Cliff Stearns, R-Ocala, has asked the president of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, for the organization's financial and policy records as part of an investigation into the chain of clinics. Stearns chairs a subcommittee on oversight and investigations in the U.S. House. Stearns was asked to look into Planned Parenthood by Americans United for Life, an anti-abortion rights group that put together a report with the aim of convincing members of Congress to defund Planned Parenthood." [<em>Florida Independent</em>, <a href="http://floridaindependent.com/50065/abby-johnson-planned-parenthood">9/30/11</a>]</font></p>
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<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Goal Of Investigation Is To Strip Planned Parenthood Of "All Public Money Now And Forever." </strong>According to the <em>American Independent</em>:</font></li>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservative policy group Americans United for Life's stated plans to help defund Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) one state at a time were amplified Thursday with the release of a report citing supposed violations of federal-funding rules by the national family planning and abortion provider. <strong>AUL is calling for Congress to launch an investigation against Planned Parenthood, with the hopeful outcome of stripping the organization of all public money now and forever.</strong></font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The majority of the allegations in this report are not new - many of the claims of wrongdoing date back several years - but they have been organized into deliberate categories and bolstered by a 144-page appendix that consists of financial and annual statements from Planned Parenthood since the early 1990s; documents including old court records and memos, as well as clandestinely recorded conversations between Planned Parenthood employees and Live Action members posing as minors. [<em>American Independent</em>, <a href="http://www.americanindependent.com/190019/anti-abortion-rights-group-offers-congress-reasons-to-investigate-and-defund-planned-parenthood">7/7/11</a>, emphasis added]</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Live Action Is A Self-Described "Youth Led Movement Dedicated To Building A Culture Of Life And Ending Abortion." </strong>From Live Action's website:</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>WHO WE ARE:</strong> We are a youth led movement dedicated to building a culture of life and ending abortion, the greatest human rights injustice of our time. We use new media to educate the public about the humanity of the unborn and investigative journalism to expose threats against the vulnerable and defenseless. [LiveAction.org, accessed <a href="http://liveaction.org/about/">10/6/11</a>]</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Rep. Stearns Cited Live Action Videos Purporting To Show "Planned Parenthood's Cover-Up Of Child Sex Trafficking." </strong>From a February 10, 2011, press release from Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL):</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In response to videos produced by Live Action showing Planned Parenthood workers willing to conspire in sex trafficking, Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) joined other members in calling for the defunding of that organization. At a news conference today hosted by Live Action and Susan B. Anthony List, Stearns stated that he plans to call the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Kathleen Sebelius, to testify on taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood and that organization's tolerance of sex trafficking and other criminal activities. Stearns is Chairman of the Energy & Commerce Committee's Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, which has jurisdiction over HHS, and the hearing will be scheduled soon.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood is increasing, rising from $337 million in 2008 to $363.2 million in 2009," said Stearns. "We have a $14 trillion national debt while running a deficit this year of $1.5 trillion - Planned Parenthood is an egregious abuse of taxpayer funds. Not only does this organization provide about one in every five abortions in this nation, its centers have also been caught violating state sexual assault and child abuse reporting laws, and it has encouraged young girls to lie about their ages to circumvent state reporting laws."</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>The undercover videos from Live Action expose Planned Parenthood's cover-up of child sex trafficking.</strong> In one, a Planned Parenthood manager coaches a man and woman posing as sex traffickers in how to obtain abortions and other services for child sex workers. "Taxpayers are demanding to know how their money is being spent and these videos answer how Planned Parenthood uses public dollars." [Stearns.House.gov, <a href="http://stearns.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=134&parentid=6§iontree=6,134&itemid=747">2/10/11</a>, emphasis added]</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Stearns Used Live Action Videos To Threaten HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius With A Personal Investigation. </strong>From <em>Politico</em>:</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Thursday, Florida Rep. Cliff Stearns demanded that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius explain the videos in which anti-abortion activists with the group Live Action pose as pimps and secretly record their conversations with workers at the family planning organization. [...]
Stearns threatened to ask the Department of Justice to investigate Sebelius if she refuses to answer questions before the Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, which he heads.
"<strong>We're going to bring Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius, put her under oath in the spring and ask her to explain what is she doing about these videos</strong>," Stearns said Thursday, flanked by anti-abortion activists at a press conference on Capitol Hill, including the president of the group that recorded and released the videos.
"We're not going to wait for Attorney General [Eric] Holder to do anything," he added, as supporters clapped and cheered. "And <strong>if she lies, then we're going to ask the attorney general to investigate her.</strong>"
Sebelius, whose agency oversees grants to Planned Parenthood, has appeared before the Senate health and education committee, but hasn't yet testified in the GOP-dominated House. [<em>Politico</em>, <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49255.html">2/10/11</a>, emphasis added]</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Stearns Thanked Live Action For Research, Called For The Defunding Of Planned Parenthood. </strong>From a blog post by Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) titled "Defund Planned Parenthood" on BigGovernment.com:</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thanks to Live Action, a group of young people dedicated to strengthening the culture of life, <strong>we learn from undercover videos that Planned Parenthood is all too willing to ignore the law in promoting its services</strong>, among them abortion.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Working with Live Action, a man and woman posed as sex traffickers at a Planned Parenthood center and asked about abortions and other services for their child sex workers. Instead being reported for what appeared to be a horrendous sexual exploitation of children, the pair received information on how to arrange abortions for their child sex workers.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This just adds to Planned Parenthood's record of violating state sexual assault and child abuse reporting laws, and of encouraging young girls to lie about their ages to circumvent state reporting laws.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although Planned Parenthood eventually ordered new training for its employees, I have a better solution - defund it. [BigGovernment.com, <a href="http://biggovernment.com/cstearns/2011/02/12/defund-planned-parenthood-2/">2/12/11</a>, emphasis added]</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Planned Parenthood Reported Potential Sex Trafficking To FBI After Visits From Live Action. </strong>From a press release titled "Planned Parenthood Informs Federal Authorities of Potential Sex Trafficking," released on January 24, 2011:</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Last week, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) alerted federal authorities to a potential multistate sex trafficking ring. Over a five day period, visitors to Planned Parenthood health centers in six states said they were seeking information from Planned Parenthood about health services Planned Parenthood could provide to underage girls who were part of a sex trafficking ring.</strong> Subsequent to alerting U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Planned Parenthood learned the identify of one of those involved and believes <strong>these visits are likely a hoax by opponents of legal abortion seeking to discredit Planned Parenthood</strong>, which delivers preventive health care and abortion services to three million women each year.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Men, sometimes accompanied by a woman, have visited at least 11 Planned Parenthood health centers in six states within a one-week time frame. During their visits, they claimed to be involved in sex trafficking of teens, some of whom are in the United States illegally. These men appeared at health centers without appointments and said that they were seeking health services for themselves, but they quickly turned the conversation to the sex ring they said they were managing. </font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"When Planned Parenthood learns of an operation that exploits young women, we vigilantly work with law enforcement authorities to uncover and stop this abhorrent activity," said Stuart Schear, PPFA vice president for communications. "Planned Parenthood's top priority is the health and safety of our patients and the health and well-being of women and teens across the country, and we have been in contact with federal and local authorities to identify the persons involved in these visits." [PlannedParenthood.org, <a href="http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/planned-parenthood-informs-federal-authorities-potential-sex-trafficking-35888.htm">1/24/11</a>, emphasis added]</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>In Addition To Reporting Live Action Visits, Planned Parenthood Fired Employee Seen In Video. </strong>As reported by the <em>New York Times</em>:</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Planned Parenthood has fired a clinic manager who was seen on videotape advising a man posing as a sex trafficker, and anti-abortion groups seized on the episode to step up their campaign to cut off public financing for the organization.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The manager was videotaped covertly in a clinic in Perth Amboy, N.J., by actors working for an anti-abortion group, Live Action. The manager gave advice on how to get medical care for under-age prostitutes. The tape's release on Tuesday embarrassed Planned Parenthood, which provides contraceptives, gynecological care, <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/cancer/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Cancer.">cancer</a> screening and abortions across the country, mainly to low-income women.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Planned Parenthood Federation of America said that immediately after the "highly unusual" visit, its affiliate had notified prosecutors.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The organization said last week that people claiming to be sex traffickers visited at least 12 of its clinics in six states in January and that it had concluded that the visits were a hoax by Live Action. But Planned Parenthood officials expressed dismay at the statements of the office manager in the videotape, and fired her on Tuesday night. [<em>New York Times</em>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/us/03parenthood.html?_r=1">2/2/11</a>]</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">nyt</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the end, Mr. O’Keefe’s Planned Parenthood campaign — in which some of the organization’s workers were recorded accepting donations from one of Mr. O’Keefe’s characters who said the money should go to abort only black fetuses — forced Planned Parenthood to apologize in multiple states, though officials also complained that some tapes were “heavily edited.”</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The despicable rise of conservative pranksters: Race-baiting & conspiracy theories in the age of Obama</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How Glenn Beck and James O'Keefe perfected a bizarre — and dangerous — new brand of conservative anger</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">KEMBREW MCLEOD</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The history of political pranks is littered with lefty characters. Conservatives, on the other hand, do not gravitate toward irreverent hijinks. One exception is James O’Keefe, a right-wing prankster who uses hidden cameras to stage encounters with his ideological enemies. At the same time that progressive organizations such as MoveOn.org were hailed for their savvy uses of online media, O’Keefe, Andrew Breitbart, and other conservatives employed similar DIY methods. O’Keefe’s provocations began in 2004 while attending Rutgers University. In a satire of political correctness, what he viewed as a pious sensitivity to ethnicity on college campuses, he launched a campaign to remove Lucky Charms from the dining hall. He secretly videotaped himself complaining to a food-service employee about the leprechaun on the cereal box. While the school official earnestly scribbled notes, O’Keefe deadpanned, “As you can see, we’re not short and green—we have our differences of height—and we think this is stereotypical of all Irish Americans.” While at Rutgers, he gained notoriety by organizing an “affirmative-action bake sale,” in which whites paid exorbitant prices and African Americans got discounts.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In developing his craft, O’Keefe read Saul Alinsky’s ”Rules for Radicals,” the bible of many liberal activists. Rule Four especially inspired him: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” </b>He applied this directive in 2007 when he punked Planned Parenthood in an attempt to expose white liberal hypocrisies about race, abortion, and eugenics. It is certainly true, for instance, that some early-twentieth-century Progressives could be racist. Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger is a women’s right pioneer, but some of her projects ran hand in hand with a desire to reduce the size of “undesirable” populations. Particularly unsettling was Sanger’s “Negro Project,” which was arguably a thinly veiled eugenics scheme. This sordid history has enabled conservative commentators to take the moral high ground by claiming that white liberals are the real racists. To dramatize this claim, O’Keefe secretly taped a phone conversation with a Planned Parenthood staffer, who was asked if his donation could be used to abort black babies (so to prevent his future son from being discriminated against through affirmative action). He was told the organization would accept the money, for whatever reason. Even though Planned Parenthood dismissed the tapes as “heavily edited,” the public-relations damage was done.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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