Birmingham Planned Parenthood placed on probation
Here’s the backstory. From the Associated Press today:
A Birmingham abortion clinic that was targeted in an undercover sting by anti-abortion activists has been put on probation by the state.
State health officials tell The Associated Press that the Planned Parenthood clinic has until next week to present its plan to correct violations involving minors receiving abortions….
Investigators with the department said records at the clinic showed several minors aged 13-15 had received abortions without proper verification of parental consent since November 2008.
Activists with “Live Action,” a CA-based anti-abortion group, posed as a pregnant 14-year-old girl who needed a secret abortion. In an audio tape from the visit, an employee allegedly suggests that someone other than a parent or legal guardian could give consent.
The group’s claim last year led AL health officials to investigate.
Here’s that undercover video…
Good job, Lila and Live Action.
[HT: Lila Rose]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Woooo hooooo!!!
God bless Lila Rose and Live Action. I feel like they’re avenging my son’s death with every step they take!
Thank you Lila for your amazing work with Live Action! Your courage and determination are such an inspiration for the rest of us. May God continue to bless you in your efforts to protect the unborn!
Yes! I really hope this sticks. Get out of my state and stay out!
this is why the government should not be funding Planned Parenthood and better yet why they should not even be allowed to operate! There is no parent planning going on – just murder of the innocents. They never offer all the options available to women – just abortion and birth control pills – that is how they make their money. They push their agenda on every girl that comes in seeking answers…every abortion – one person dies and the other is mortally wounded the rest of their life…
A corrective plan of action sounds like a slap on the wrist if that’s the only consequence faced by PP staff who violated the law. What about disciplinary action against their professional licenses? And who will be monitoring PP for compliance? The Department of Public Health whose rules for abortion centers do not even address abortions performed on minors?
God bless Lila for documenting the problem. I pray there will be some real teeth in addressing what she’s brought to light.
The Associated Press link is not working.
I appreciate all of the hard work of Lila and Live Action but agree with Fed Up!! So…PP gets grounded and so what? Unless it’s double secret probation……….
Kelsey, it’s working for me. Try again?
Must be my computer, it’s quirky sometimes.
Anyway, keep up the good work, Live Action!
Yes! I really hope this sticks. Get out of my state and stay out!
Posted by: Keli Hu at February 10, 2010 1:44 PM
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Keli, I love your attitude.
I’m planning a seige to drive 3 abortion clinics out of east Detroit.
I’ll let you know how I make out.
40 Days for Life begins next week here in Birmingham and our vigil site is outside this same Planned Parenthood clinic. I hope this place gets shut down for good. Three cheers to LiveAction for exposing them for what they are. Now if LiveAction will remove their recommendation of Saul Alinsky’s book, Rules for Radicals, from their Resources page on their website, I can really support them in good conscience.
Disciple, the reason Alinsky is recommended reading is because its the prochoice playbook, it exposes their hollow rhetoric and debate tactics.
I wanted to believe that, Jill. But that is not how it was explained to me when I communicated with the organization. Their media consultant assured me that there many things in there that pro-lifers could learn and use, not just to know what actions to counteract, but that Alinsky’s rules were valuable and could be used by us. We exchanged a few emails on this subject and I notice that they have revised and expanded their disclaimer on their site. But they still think the book contains ideas they can use. And that they can recommend. This remains a problem and is the reason I cannot support them the way I would like to.
Well, looks like the abortionist have been sidelined again by their own stupidity. first by snorting about an add they hadn’t even seen, and one of their pig I mean planned parenthoods being placed on probation! The Pigs are loosing!
I have a cousin who lives in Pell City just outside of Birmingham who is the teacher in a home for unwed teenaged mothers helping these girls while they decide whether to keep their baby or put it up for adoption. She said many of them come in at ages 14, 15, 16 and so on with the educational level of 2nd to 3rd grade and she gets less than 9 months to try to bring their reading and math skills up to grade level.
As a part of her witness to them, her “teacher’s assistant” is her daughter, who was a 1lb 8oz preemie, who is blind and learning disabled, but who ALL of the girls love and they see that even when life is imperfect, it can be beautiful.
Oh, and that particular cousin is the eldest of 11 children… She was all grown up before I was even born, but she’s my favorite cousin and I love her SO much!
Disciple,
Understood. That’s very disappointing. I just assumed they were promoting reading Alinsky for the same reason I do-its a glimpse inside the proabort mentality and exposes their talking points. I’m going to see whar I can find out about this.