Jill Stanek: Planned Parenthood Lied About New York Site
Planned Parenthood of New York City said the videotape does not accurately portray the agency’s practices and that the incident was reported to law enforcement.
This is false. The January 18 letter PP CEO Cecile Richards wrote to US AG Eric Holder did not list New York as one of the states visited by the alleged sex trafficker:
These incidents occurred at Planned Parenthood health centers in Arizona, Indiana, New Jersey, Virginia, and Washington, D.C….
Furthermore, PP is now alleging the NY tape was “doctored”:
A spokesman for PP… said Tuesday that the videos were “clearly doctored and cannot be trusted.”
“The two health center workers featured in the video said that they did not hear the words ‘sex work’ or ‘sex worker,’ uttered by the actors on camera,” the spokesman, Stuart Schear, said in a statement. “It is clear from the edited tape that there are two or more video sources, as well as an additional audio source, increasing the opportunity for manipulation and selective editing.”
So, either the Bronx PP employees lied to their bosses and did not tell them they’d potentially been stung, or, as PP claims, they did not know they were speaking with a sex trafficker. But if that were true, what was there to report to authorities?
As an aside, PP has falsely accused Live Action for years of “doctoring” or “heavily editing” its tapes. In actuality, Live Action has always turned over the full version of its tapes to authorities, who have never accused Live Action of tampering with them. And really, how long could Live Action sustain such a ruse when giving its tapes to the FBI and DOJ? Isn’t such an accusation really to call Live Action brilliant for the ability to outsmart the feds?
The longer this goes on, the more difficulty PP has keeping its story straight.
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1 Comments:
At 12/2/11 8:44 AM , Christina Dunigan said...
My favorite lie is still, "Our staff IMMEDIATELY reported this to the authorities" from national headquarters, followed shortly thereafter by a YIKES! from the NJ affiliate, which fired the employee.
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