Yesterday the pro-abortion website Jezebel posted a hit piece against an investigative video released by the pro-life group Live Action that showed a Planned Parenthood employee helping facilitate what she thought was a sex-selective abortion.

Jezebel’s (lame) hit was to be expected. But the headline must have slipped by editors…

“Rascals”? Lol. But the bigger faux pas was asking whether Live Action could prove Planned Parenthood facilitates sex selective abortions. We now know that answer is yes. Oops.

Jezebel editors quickly realized the strategic sin and unpublished the post, although not before one of Live Action’s astute bloggers captured it. Here was Jezebel’s liberally correct redo…

By the way, are we talking about the “hack job” that got a Planned Parenthood employee fired and staff “retrain[ed]”?

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Last night Live Action’s Lila Rose appeared on The O’Reilly Factor to discuss her group’s new video investigation into sex selective abortions.
 

 
After viewing a cut from Live Action’s first exposé, which showed an Austin, Texas, Planned Parenthood employee helping facilitate what she thought was a sex-selective abortion, an incensed Bill O’Reilly scoffed, “Are we now China in this country?”

Actually, no, China has the U.S. on this one, because China, despite its horrific one-child policy, is one of 30 countries banning sex-selective abortions, which the U.S. as a nation does not.

Lila did a great job, as usual, although O’Reilly did most of the talking, as usual. I appreciate that he understood the big picture. He and Lila both made great points.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymXJtEMhWWo[/youtube]So in democratic tradition, Robert doesn’t acknowledge the personhood of certain people. I guess in this case he’s angry about certain conservative blacks and their position on marriage. He tells his readers that we need to understand that this isn’t a gay marriage issue, it’s a “human rights issue”.

You’re a joke!

~ Alfonzo Rachel criticizing Detroit News writer Robert Smith Jr. over his disparaging of black conservatives, via PJTV’s ZoNation, May 29

by Kelli

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• In our newest addition to the blogroll, Kelly Clinger tells of her difficult decision to confess her two past abortions to her young children.
• At Live Action, Jennie Stone shows once again that despite attempted media and pro-choice political spin, Planned Parenthood’s main “service” to pregnant women is abortion – and something they do every 97 seconds. Staggering.
• Big Blue Wave links to LifeNews regarding a new medical journal report which “completely debunks the Guttmacher Institute numbers on ‘unsafe’ abortions in several Latin American countries.” It appears the research arm of Planned Parenthood is – surprise, surprise – heavily overstating the number of clandestine abortions in various countries in an effort to pressure their governments into legalizing abortion.

• Culture Campaign links to an interview with late-term abortionist Willie J. Parker (pictured left), who claims his “Christian faith” led him to the conclusion that “the happiness of the mother outweighs ‘the life of a pre-viable or lethally flawed fetus.'” Parker also states:
  

  The women most likely to be in those [second trimester abortion] situations are trapped in poverty, often women of color or poor socioeconomic backgrounds, less education, and women and girls at the extremes of reproductive age.

  When did killing become a solution for any of these issues?

• Generations for Life reports on the increasing number of pro-life youth in Europe who are making their voices heard.
• At Americans United for Life, Charmaine Yoest believes the most recent Gallup poll fails to accurately reflect the percentage of pro-life Americans. Yoest claims it is higher than 50%:
  

  During the healthcare debates we saw that 7 in 10 Americans – pro-life and pro-choice – did not want to see their tax monies going to fund abortion, and we’ve seen tremendous support for commonsense limits on abortion – such as limiting abortion after 20 weeks because of the health risks to women and requiring parental involvement in the abortion decisions of young girls.

  We also know that when it comes to voting, those motivated to protect life vote 2 to 1 compared to those who want unfettered, unregulated abortion.

• At Ethika Politika, Mattias Caro discusses the issues surrounding the death penalty and human dignity, pointing out that unlike any other creature in the known universe, humans are moral agents, responsible for our actions. He writes:
  

  Most debates on the death penalty lead to a co-op on the lack of moral authority for the agent executor to carry out the act. “Who are we to kill someone out of revenge?” or “What if we execute the wrong person?”….

  All of these… only address the moral role of the executioner. They are not questions that address a basic concern, “Do some actions simply warrant death?”

[Photo via feministsforchoice.com]

UPDATE 2p:  Planned Parenthood has issued a statement disclaiming any culpability. It states the now terminated employee was “entry-level” and “did not follow our protocol.” So what exactly is the protocol of an organization that claims “[g]ender bias is contrary to everything our organization works for,” yet not wanting (lucrative) sex-selective abortions “curtail[ed]” in any way?

1:26p: See previous post here.

According to the Huffington Post, Planned Parenthood says it fired the staffer involved in Live Action’s new video investigation into sex selective abortions almost immediately after LA conducted its sting.

A Live Action source told me today the sting at that Austin, Texas, Planned Parenthood was conducted April 11, so the employee was fired April 14, 6-1/2 weeks ago:

A Planned Parenthood spokeswoman told The Huffington Post on Tuesday the staffer in the video “did not follow our protocol” for dealing with “a highly unusual patient scenario.”

“Planned Parenthood insists on the highest quality patient care, and if we ever become aware of a staff member not meeting these high standards we take swift action,” she said in a written statement. “Within three days of this patient interaction, the staff member’s employment was ended and all staff members at this affiliate were immediately scheduled for retraining in managing unusual patient encounters. Today opponents of Planned Parenthood are promoting an edited video of that hoax patient encounter.”

On April 23, two Planned Parenthood executives tried to preempt the video release they knew was coming by claiming LA’s investigations “promote falsehoods” about the abortion giant. They made that claim knowing PP had already fired at least one employee over mishandling an inquiry into sex selective abortions. They further wrote, ironically:

If a health center learns of an instance where a staff member has not fully followed policies or procedures, swift action is taken to remedy the situation. Our rigorous and ongoing training and quality assurance help identify potential issues, and all health centers respond to any training or personnel needs with professionalism and respect. Planned Parenthood cares about staff, and conducts retraining or other personnel action responsibly.

Planned Parenthood has a history of firing workers exposed in Live Action investigations even while denying any wrong-doing.

Planned Parenthood apparently demonstrates “respect” and “care” of staff members by throwing them under the bus.

by LauraLoo

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In a surprise move, House Republicans announced this past Friday they would call for a vote on a federal ban against sex-selective abortion, aka the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, H.R. 3541*, tomorrow, May 30.

PRENDA will be considered under “suspension of the rules,” meaning no amendments can be added. The bill must be voted on as is, straight up or down, and a two-thirds majority will be needed to pass it.

Pro-lifers must now pull out all stops and urge their members of Congress to vote for PRENDA. This morning the National Right to Life Committee issued a nationwide call alert. Click on the link to easily get the phone number for your representative as well as talking points. No time for emails.

NRLC is also issuing an informative letter to Members of Congress.

In 2005 the UNFPA reported there were 163 million missing women in Asia alone since 1950 due to sex-selective abortions and infanticide.

Lest you swallow the pro-abortion lie, “It’s not happening here,” consider this section of the NRLC letter:

Dr. Sunita Puri and three other researchers at the University of California interviewed “65 immigrant Indian women in the United States who had pursued fetal sex selection.” They wrote: “We found that 40% of the women interviewed had terminated prior pregnancies with female fetuses and that 89% of women carrying female fetuses in their current pregnancy pursued an abortion.”

This powerful study discusses in detail the multiple forms of pressure and outright coercion to which such women are often subjected: “Forty women (62%) described verbal abuse from their female in laws or husbands…. One-third of women described past physical abuse and neglect related specifically to their failing to produce a male child.” As a result, “women reported having multiple closely spaced pregnancies with terminations of female fetuses under pressure to have a male child.” (“‘There is such a thing as too many daughters, but not too many sons’,” Social Science & Medicine 72 (2011), 1169-1176)

If you do nothing else today, take 30 minutes to read that study. It will stick with you. It is awful. And it is happening in America.

Please make your call.

*The section banning abortions on basis of race has been removed. This is now solely a bill on sex-selective abortions.