Protesters at Dr. George Tiller's funeral. Credit: Allen Graham | Dreamstime.com
HuffPost's Ryan Grim pwns Lila Rose, the anti-Planned Parenthood James O'Keefe copycat:
Rose promoted the edited video as proof that Planned Parenthood knew that a 13-year-old child was impregnated by a 31-year-old man but continued to counsel the patient. But in the full-length video, it becomes clear that Rose, who is pretending to be pregnant, tells a volunteer that she is 13 and later tells a nurse that her boyfriend is 31. Each person has only one piece of the information, though in the edited tape it appears as though Rose is talking to the same person the entire time. Rose was in fact over 18 at the time of the video, so the nurse would have little reason to suspect statutory rape. At the very end of the longer clip, Rose tells the nurse that she is 13, at which point the video cuts out and the nurse is seen giving no further counseling. An official affiliated with Planned Parenthood said that the nurse suspected that Rose was lying about her age and so ended the conversation. Had Rose gone forward with the process and become an official patient of the center, she would have then been required to show identification, said the official.
Not telling the nurse that she was '13' is an important detail, isn't it? If you're going to attack Planned Parenthood for not "reporting" a fabricated case of statutory rape, shouldn't you at least tell them that you're '13' (or at least that you're supposed to be)? I mean, if you're actually over the legal age (and you're not even really pregnant), and you don't tell the nurse that you're underage, and you never even officially become a patient at the facility, then maybe you ought not accuse them of covering up a statutory rape, even if it was just an imaginary one.
The most pathetic thing about all this is that if the "pro-life" freakshow were actually interested in reducing abortion, they'd recognize that Planned Parenthood is their best friend. After all, most of Planned Parenthood's services have to do with the prevention of unwanted pregnancies. But these guys are aren't interested in reducing abortions as an end unto itself -- their real goal is controlling female sexuality. Being "pro-life" is just their way of trying to get what they want.