Posted on 05/16/2007 4:28:04 PM PDT by doug from upland
Planned Parenthood Threatens Lawsuit Against Pro-Life UCLA Student
By Doug Huntington Christian Post Reporter Wed, May. 16 2007 07:22 AM ET
Planned Parenthood, the leading provider of surgical abortions, has threatened to file a lawsuit against an 18-year-old student journalist at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Lilia Rose, who is the student editor and founder of the student pro-life magazine The Advocate, was contacted by the pro-choice organization after she recorded herself going into a clinic in Santa Monica, Calif., posing as a 15-year-old pregnant girl. She went in for an “abortion” with a man named James O’Keefe, who acted as her 23-year-old boyfriend, which would be considered statutory rape.
The tapes reveal that she was advised by employees to invent a birthday, so she did not appear to be 15, making her situation legal. A letter from Planned Parenthood expressed to her that she had no right to tape the incident, and that she did so without their consent.
“[You must] immediately relinquish to PPLA (Planned Parenthood Los Angeles) the original and any copies of all communications with PPLA employees you have recorded without their consent,” reported the letter which was signed by Mary Jane Wagle, CEO of PPLA.
According to PPLA, the lawsuit could cost Rose $5,000 or three times actual damages.
In the recorded conversation, the UCLA student found that PPLA encouraged her not to report her actual age to protect her “boyfriend.” Rose had done the undercover work to expose this practice.
“If you’re 15, we have to report it. If you’re not, if you’re older than that, then we don’t need to,” explained the employee in the recording. “You could say 16…well, just figure out a birth date that works. And I don’t know anything.”
Rather than threatening a lawsuit, Rose instead noted that the organization should make changes to their policies. According to Rose, Planned Parenthood has had numerous incidences in the past
One such example occurred when Life Dynamics, a Texas-based non-profit organization, hired an actress to make approximately 800 phone calls to abortion facilities across several states, acting as a 13-year-old girl. (Watch the video) She described herself as a victim of sexual assault, but 91 percent of the locations that admitted the action was a crime agreed to conceal it.
“This lawsuit threat is an example of Planned Parenthood using intimidation against those willing to expose its crimes,” explained Rose in an email to The Christian Post. “Planned Parenthood is a $900 million operation. Instead of threatening me with a lawsuit, Planned Parenthood should call a press conference condemning its staffers and promising major reform to protect young girls. Instead, they are threatening a college student.”
Rose has expressed her concern over the girls involved with Planned Parenthood and has also talked about the problems with organization since it is federally funded.
“Imagine a major corporation had been exposed for committing crimes in order to pad its bottom line. There would be a parade of congressmen demanding hearings and reform,” added the UCLA student. “Young girls are at risk and Planned Parenthood is receiving federal tax money. The federal government should investigate this and Planned Parenthood, like any other corporation, should be held accountable.”
Rose, who is currently majoring in political science, founded The Advocate in January.
Here is where the evil Mary-Jane Wagle calls home — http://www.plannedparenthood.org/los-angeles/020907.htm
Planned Parenthood encouraging lying? Wow, who would have thought they would cross that moral line./sarc.
Thank God for the courage of 18 year old girls. We can only hope the man (and women) we elect as national leaders would be so principled and gutsy. This young lady has a future.
Is this story going to get on the ABC news tonight?...zzzzzzzzzzzzz
Hooray for our side. And especially for this young lady. She is spunky. Sort of like Laura Ingraham when she was at the Dartmouth Review.
I won’t be holding my breath.
These people murder babies. What’s child abuse?
She should just release the tape as a MP3 on the internet.
“Is this story going to get on the ABC news tonight?”
No way.
First, baby-killing... now lying! What’s next... being late with the phone bill?
Rudy’s favorite adoption agency.
It’s on YouTube.
I would think that a conservative legal foundation would love the opportunity to defend her. Discovery and production of the baby killers’ records would be very interesting. And I’m sure many people would come forward to tell their story.
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I donate to several legal organizations who would be delighted to defend her, probably working together.
There’s no doubt that she would win, and in the meantime the publicity would be devastating to Planned Parenthood.
For that reason, I suspect that this is an empty threat on their part. They can’t afford to put the question, “Does Planned Parenthood Conspire with Statutory Rapists” any further into the public eye than it is already.
New Jersey to Abolish Death Penalty for All Except Unborn
New Jersey lawmakers are weighing legislation that would abolish the state’s death penalty. The prohibition on putting humans to death will not be extended to outlaw abortions, however.
Democratic Governor Jon Corzine, said he was confident the legislation would become law some time this summer. “It is barbaric that we would deliberately extinguish the life of another human being,” he said. “This cruel practice must end.”
Corzine rebuffed arguments that his unwavering support for abortion allows doctors to “deliberately extinguish the life of another human being.” “Abortions occur because these fetuses are unwanted,” Corzine said. “The same can’t be said for those on death row. Every one of them has someone, frequently a mother, begging for mercy for the condemned man. So, I’m not buying the so-called ‘moral equivalence’ argument against a woman’s right to an abortion. The two situations are as different as night and day.”
In support of his position, Corzine made reference to the New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission finding that the death penalty was “inconsistent with evolving standards of decency.”
read more...
http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
Rose was scheduled to be on O’Reilly last night—but was pre-empted. I have been informed by email that she will be on O’Reilly tomorrow night...Thursday. I’ve also been told she is also beautiful and charismatic.
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