Let’s keep this FReepathon moving and wrap it up, Folks!
Posted on 11/23/2019 12:40:46 PM PST by jazusamo
Planned Parenthood held a happy hour for media professionals this past week, which is a rather common occurrence, especially in political circles. But, according to VICE's Carter Sherman , the abortion giant wanted reporters to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), something she felt "can stifle reporters’ ability to do their job."
According to Sherman, this isn't the first time Planned Parenthood has asked her to sign an NDA. Last year when she covered their “Power of Pink” volunteer training in Detroit, the media registration also included an NDA agreement that barred reporters from sharing "confidential information" with readers.
The reporter pushed back against Planned Parenthood over the happy hour, saying she planned to expose the NDA controversy. At that point, the organization claimed the gag order "was a mistake," and a Planned Parenthood staffer sent an email to all reporters planning to come to the event saying "none of them would have to comply with an NDA."
From VICE:
That email said the NDA, which was sent less than 48 hours before the happy hour and applied to anyone who showed up, was sent in error by a new employee.
I’d pushed back on the NDA for the “Power of Pink” event, too. Initially, a Planned Parenthood staffer assured me that the agreement included “allowances for journalists to report.” They ultimately let me attend without agreeing to it, but it took a few days and the organization’s tech team had to build a special online backdoor to bypass that part of the registration.
Planned Parenthood told VICE News it is not their policy to require NDAs of reporters covering the organization.
But she did concede that the organization had asked reporters for NDAs, but characterized those request as mistakes.
"That said, our interactions with reporters around this have been less than perfect," Sackin said. "It is not — and has not been — our official policy to require any reporter to sign an NDA that would prevent them from reporting an event we’re asking them to cover, or for informal off-the-record events. In instances when we have asked reporters to do so, it has been the result of miscommunication and misunderstanding between staff, or of staff members out of an abundance of caution enforcing rules that should not apply to journalists.”
When reporters write stories and speak with sources, there are different types of interviews. Sometimes a source will provide a journalist information "on background," which generally means the reporter can share that information but not attribute it to the source. "Off the record" means the source will tell a reporter something that cannot be published. But having a legal document takes things to a new level.
It's highly likely that Planned Parenthood started this practice after the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released videos of organization employees talking about selling fetal tissue for medical research. A federal judge recently ruled CMP "caused substantial harm to Planned Parenthood by infiltrating abortion industry conferences to secretly tape abortion doctors and staff." The pro-life organization was told to pay $870,000 in punitive damages.
Hey a celebration killing babies and selling their parts for profit, what could be more uplifting!
Yep, PP people are definitely sickos.
Planned Parenthood is a little like the IRS, in that they believe they are above the law and can basically get away with anything; they have good reasons for thinking this, because the courts have declined to hold them to the law, and lawmakers have created a legislative framework that acts like a shield for them.
They see themselves as an existential benefit to humanity, and feel that anyone who disagrees is evil and worthy of the harshest possible treatment.
That’s a good analogy of PP and the IRS, many tyrants in both organizations.
PP are a collective of government funded ghouls. Seriously, they are ghouls. You can read about ghouls right here, they fit the definition perfectly. Know the enemy:
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" Ghoul (Arabic: غول, ghūl) is a demon or monster originating in pre-Islamic Arabian religion[1] associated with graveyards and consuming human flesh. In modern fiction, the term has often been used for a certain kind of undead monster.
By extension, the word ghoul is also used in a derogatory sense to refer to a person who delights in the macabre, or whose profession is linked directly to death, such as a gravedigger or graverobber. .............................................................................................The creature also preys on young children, drinks blood, steals coins, and eats the dead,[7] then taking the form of the person most recently eaten. One of the narratives identified a ghoul named Ghul-e Biyaban, a particularly monstrous character believed to be inhabiting the wilderness of Afghanistan and Iran.[8]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoul
PP is powerful. Where did it get the power? From democrats who reward it for votes and money.
Let’s keep this FReepathon moving and wrap it up, Folks!
History shows that anywhere there is an "above the law" zone you will find tyrants. Such places — whether actual real estate or in the form of a legal construct — act as a magnet for those who have tyrannical instincts and motivations.
They only thing that will keep them at bay is the threat of extreme physical pain or death, and even that isn't enough for some. Over time, such places are overrun with the worst of the worst, and require extreme measures to clean out.
They also corrupt institutions that are nearby or that can impinge upon their prerogatives.
It's a consequence of "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
They had idiots fund raising for planned butcherhood outside of our farmers market today, second weekend in a row. Outrageous!!! How can they brainwash these skulls full of mush to support feeding demons and other monsters so easily? It immediately renders these women as “untouchables”. Who wants to hang around a satanist even when they are too stupid to know they are one?!?
Planned Parenthood acting like Scientology.
In more ways than one brw.
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