MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Planned Parenthood has again been caught seeking to circumvent the law — this time at a Memphis affiliate.
Live Action, a California-based organization led by college students, secretly videotaped a Planned Parenthood counselor attempting to cover up alleged child sexual abuse. It marked the sixth clinic in which Live Action has filmed such a cover-up effort with a hidden camera.
Such practices by Planned Parenthood employees were also recorded at affiliates in Arizona, California and Indiana.
Lila Rose, a 20-year-old University of California, Los Angeles student and Live Action’s president, posed as a pregnant 14-year-old at the Memphis clinic, telling the counselor the father of her child was a 31-year-old.
The counselor told Rose she would not tell anyone the age of the boyfriend and advised her to lie about his age. She counseled Rose on obtaining a judicial bypass of the state’s parental consent law for an abortion.
Tennessee law requires health-care workers to report suspected cases of sexual abuse of minors to authorities.
“Planned Parenthood’s abortion-first mentality makes it operate as an advocate for terrible crimes against children,” Rose said in a written statement when the video was released April 20. “What more do authorities need to see before holding this organization accountable for its institutionalized indifference to statutory rape and sexual abuse of children?”
The latest video is another part of a multistate, hidden-camera investigation by Live Action at Planned Parenthood clinics that began last summer. (TAB)
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