Planned Parenthood

LiveAction, Planned Parenthood Embark On Rival Bus Tours

Jillian Rayfield | March 9, 2011, 2:22PM

The anti-abortion activist group LiveAction has teamed up with the conservative women's group the Susan B. Anthony List for a bus tour in an effort to defund Planned Parenthood. In response, Planned Parenthood has launched its own "truth tour" in support of women's rights.

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Lila Rose

Lila Rose: DOJ 'Looking The Other Way' On Sex Trafficking

Jillian Rayfield | March 2, 2011, 9:09AM

Lila Rose, president of LiveAction.

Lila Rose, the head of the anti-abortion activist group LiveAction, decried Eric Holder's statement on Tuesday that the FBI will not prosecute in connection with a LiveAction video "sting," which was aimed at catching Planned Parenthood employees looking the other way on sex traffickers.

"An untold number of women, and possibly underage girls, are being exploited and likely in danger and the Justice Department is looking the other way," Rose said in a statement.

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Eric Holder

Holder: No Prosecution In Connection With Planned Parenthood Video 'Sting'

Jillian Rayfield | March 1, 2011, 2:18PM

Attorney General Eric Holder

Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that the FBI has declined to prosecute in connection with a series of incidents where a man entered Planned Parenthood and claimed to be a pimp operating a sex trafficking ring. Those incidents were later revealed to be part of a video "sting" by the anti-abortion group LiveAction.

"It is my understanding that the FBI actually has looked at that matter" and "prosecution was declined in that matter," Holder's commented in a hearing of the House Appropriations subcommittee.

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LiveAction Releases New Audio Targeting Planned Parenthood

Melissa Jeltsen | February 10, 2011, 2:03PM

Lila Rose, president of LiveAction.

LiveAction, the anti-abortion group currently waging an all-out assault on Planned Parenthood, released a new audio file today. This one was allegedly recorded in a clinic in Washington, D.C.

In it, a woman pretending to manage an underage sex ring is heard asking about getting her workers STD testing and abortion services. This tape is the fourth release from the group this month.

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Abortion

LiveAction Releases Third Video Targeting Planned Parenthood

Jillian Rayfield | February 8, 2011, 5:32PM

Lila Rose, president of LiveAction.

The anti-abortion group LiveAction released a third undercover video today targeting Planned Parenthood in a James O'Keefe-style sting, which LiveAction says shows an employee in a clinic in the Bronx describing to a pimp and prostitute how to get taxpayer funded insurance for underage sex workers.

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Abortion

LiveAction Releases Second Planned Parenthood Vid

Rachel Slajda | February 4, 2011, 8:44AM

LiveAction's Lila Rose

LiveAction, the anti-abortion group that targets Planned Parenthood with undercover videos, released a second video Thursday of what it says is a Planned Parenthood employee aiding in child sex trafficking.

In the video, a man -- identified by LiveAction as an actor -- tells a Planned Parenthood employee in Virginia that he is in "sex work" and "manages girls" as young as 14 and 15. He asks questions about disease testing and abortions for girls under 18, and the employee provides answers.

This, LiveAction says, proves that Planned Parenthood aids federal criminals and fails to report crimes such as the ones the actor was pretending to have committed.

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Planned Parenthood Fires Employee Who Helped Pro-Lifer Posed As Pimp

Rachel Slajda | February 2, 2011, 3:43PM

Planned Parenthood has fired an employee who apparently advised a man pretending to be a pimp to underage girls and illegal immigrants. The New Jersey attorney general is also investigating.

The firing stems from an undercover video released by the anti-abortion, anti-Planned Parenthood group LiveAction. LiveAction staged visits to eight Planned Parenthood clinics this month, including the Central New Jersey clinic shown in the video, during which an activist pretended to be a pimp. He told employees that he "managed girls," including 14- and 15-year-olds and illegal immigrants, and wanted to know how to get them tested for sexually transmitted diseases and potentially get abortions without alerting authorities.

In the video, a manager at the clinic appears to advise the man and a female companion on how to avoid scrutiny by having the girls lie about their age or go to another non-Planned Parenthood clinic altogether.

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Sex Ring Was A Hoax; Live Action Posts Video Targeting Planned Parenthood

Rachel Slajda | February 1, 2011, 2:22PM

When a man showed up at eight Planned Parenthood clinics in five states within five days, claiming that he ran an underage sex trafficking ring, Planned Parenthood reported it to the FBI. They also figured it was probably a "hoax" in which anti-abortion types were trying to catch clinic employees saying something damning on tape.

Planned Parenthood was right. Today, Live Action, an anti-abortion group run by James O'Keefe associate Lila Rose, posted a video it claims shows a Planned Parenthood employee in New Jersey instructing a "pimp" on how to get his underage and illegal immigrant sex workers STD testing and abortions.

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Planned Parenthood: FBI Investigation Underway Over Potential Sex Ring Hoax

Rachel Slajda | January 27, 2011, 10:13AM

James O'Keefe and Lila Rose

The FBI has begun investigating a series of incidents in which a man told Planned Parenthood clinics around the country that he was running an underage sex trafficking ring, according to a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood.

The FBI has been interviewing people at the clinics -- a total of eight spread out over five states and D.C. -- over the past two days, the spokeswoman tells TPM. She said Planned Parenthood has been giving law enforcement all the information they have.

The FBI did not return a request for comment.

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Is It An Underage Sex Slave Ring, Or A Hoax? Either Way, Planned Parenthood Calls The FBI

Rachel Slajda | January 25, 2011, 2:19PM

James O'Keefe and Lila Rose

In the course of five days this month, eight Planned Parenthood clinics in five states and D.C. reported getting the same visit: A man said he needed treatment for a sexually transmitted disease and then, once alone with a staff member, implied that he ran an interstate sex trafficking ring that involves minors and illegal immigrants.

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America thinks that the visits, which happened between Jan. 11 and 15, are part of a James O'Keefe-style "sting." But the group called in the FBI anyway.

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