Don’t worry, AZ Planned Parenthood has investigated itself
When last we left Planned Parenthood of Arizona , Lila Rose and LiveActionFilms.org had released a 2nd video of employees at a 2nd and 3rd PP in the Grand Canyon state showing a willingness to cover-up underage rape.
The 1st video showing the 1st cover-up, released February 3, resulted in a whole bunch of nothing happening.
This likely had to do with the fact that AZ Attorney General Terry Goddard was coincidentally scheduled to give the keynote address at a PP event that night, obviously in the bag for the US’s largest chain of chop shops.
The 2nd video released resulted in an interesting denial by Goddard to the Arizona Republic that his office was investigating PP despite a letter from the Pima Co. attorney to the contrary (click to enlarge)…
Goddard must have decided not to worry because, as AR reported, PP AZ has conducted an investigation of itself, and things amiss are now fine…
The organization initially released a statement about the videos.
PP AZ said it “takes allegations of this nature very seriously.”
“We are conducting an internal review and will come to a conclusion that is fact based and not based on edited propaganda video,” the agency said.
After the review, Cynde Cerf [left], director of communication and marketing for PP AZ, said that, at the first facility, the young women were talking to a front-desk worker and not a medical professional.
At the second meeting, the women, still posing as 15-year-old girls, met not with a counselor but a clinician, who may have been more practiced at providing medical care than counseling.
“I think she was clumsy in explaining how the practice works,” Cerf said. “At the same time, she was still following the procedures that were set up at the time.”
The worker in the tape from the second facility no longer works for PP. She left of her own accord months before PP knew about the recordings.
Procedures have changed since the video was recorded last July. The changes were put into place before Live Action started posting their videos. Now, clinicians are trained in how to talk to all patients.
Also, young women or girls who appear to possibly be victims of a crime are told upfront that PP has a legal obligation to share any suspicions to law-enforcement authorities.
These clinicians are also responsible for the reporting of any suspicions. Previously, that was likely to be a counselor’s role.
Cerf said that, from Feb. 1 to March 20, PP AZ reported 24 cases of suspicions of abuse.
Those reports came from the organization’s 20 facilities in the state.
Nevertheless, one US Congressman, Trent Franks, is not taking PP’s word that things are a-ok. As Fox News reported March 26, Franks is the 1st AZ public official to call for an investigation:
… Franks lambasted the organization for its “flagrant violation of the law.”
“These video clips are the most recent in a series of recorded incidents in which PP clinics have blatantly disregarded the law and failed to protect children by refusing to report potential cases of statutory rape,” Franks said in a press release….
“It is a travesty that even though PP has been repeatedly shown to conceal the sexual abuse of children, state and federal officials have nevertheless refused to involve themselves in drawing attention to these crimes, seemingly because of their desire to avoid the abortion issue altogether,” Franks said.
He cited the allegations against PP as another reason for his support of the Title X Abortion Provider Act, which would prohibit the use of federal funds for family planning centers that adminster abortions.
Back to our PP friend Cynde Cerf, I found this interesting tweet on her Twitter page:
Normally I would consider it bizarre to make mention of the plastic maccabre. But considering Cynde makes her living from an organization that rips real heads off of real babies’ torsos, I’m not surprised.

Terry Goddard is a rabid pro-abort like his friend Janet Naploitano. This is a guy who was more concerned about Wal-Mart getting prices wrong on receipts than in protecting us from the onslaught of illegal aliens coming into our state. The guy is a total waste of tax money. Don’t expect Godard to do anything about this.
I suggest you e-mail Jan Brewer the governor of Arizona and pro-lifer, however, lately she has put moral issues on the back burner because of the financial mess Janet Napolitano got us into and then left the state to become Homeland Destruction Head so she could do the dirty on our country.
Trent Franks is awesome. In fact, I am meeting with his brother next week.
This too:
The Arizona Republic or the “Arizona Repugnant” as one JD Hayworth likes to call it is totally in the tank for EVERYTHING liberal including abortion, homosexual marriage, etc. Their editiraol board is one of the most Liberal in the country.
One ray of light; the paper is near bankruptcy.
I saw Trent Franks speak at CPAC for Liberty University. He is a humble, intelligent, and principled man. Arizona is lucky to have him. I hope he gets a lot of support in this fight against PP.
So the foxes did a bed check at the hen house and reported nothing unusual there.
How flipping embarrassing for all Arizonans. I grew up down the street from Terry Goddard’s dad, Sam. Mean old man who would yell at Girl Scouts who dared ring his door to sell cookies. (I didn’t actually know who he was until my dad told me later.)
I also went to grade school with a young lady from the Pulliam family who owned the Repugnant until bought out by Gannett. Again, no surprise here. (Same grade school that McCain’s son Jimmy attended, btw.)
I’ve known JD Hayworth since he was just a sportscaster before he ever entered public office… he’s one of the few voices that point out the hypocrisy and lack of real effort by the liberals here in Arizona.
My husband has known Jan Brewer for years. I’ll see if he can get word to her about this.