Lila Rose’s latest hoax video shows no wrongdoing, ticks off far-right nutters
Since the release of a second video from anti-choice group Live Action, which shows a Planned Parenthood worker at a Richmond, Virginia, clinic advising a man and woman posing as a pimp and prostitute, right-wing media have suggested that the video shows Planned Parenthood engaged in wrongdoing. In fact, the Richmond clinic reported the incident to Planned Parenthood’s national security team, and legal experts have agreed that the worker’s advice in the video is consistent with state law.
The latest video, shot in Richmond, Va., follows Tuesday’s release of footage from inside a New Jersey clinic, where an employee is seen coaching a pimp and underage prostitute on how to cover up their illicit business.
Planned Parenthood fired the employee Tuesday night, hours after viewing the tape, and said that supervisors had immediately notified law enforcement of the alleged sex trafficking ring weeks earlier, after the encounter occurred.
The new video was shot Jan. 12 and features the same staged scenario involving a man and woman posing as sex workers and inquiring about sexually transmitted disease (STD) testing, birth control options and abortions for underage girls.
But unlike the first video, the Richmond clinic worker appears to act professionally and appropriately, informing the couple of their legal rights to privacy under the law, regardless of their backgrounds.
“We see people from, um, every walk of life,” said the clinic worker. “So, no judgment, no sharing of information, like, uh, nothing here.”
The worker also laid out legal guidelines for a minor seeking an abortion, including the requirement of parental consent or permission from a judge before one can be performed…
Legal experts reached by ABC News also said the clinic worker’s advice on how a minor could obtain an abortion without her parents’ consent is consistent with state law.
“It would be ethically required of a health worker to notify a minor seeking an abortion of her right to a process known as ‘judicial bypass,’” said Lois Shepherd, a lawyer and professor at the University of Virginia Center for Biomedical Ethics. That process allows minors who may choose to do so to contact a judge for permission to receive an abortion instead of their parents.
“It’s not just permissible under Virginia law, it’s a clearly recognized constitutional right of minors to seek a judge’s approval without their parents knowing,” she said.
More hoaxing and more epic fail
And least we forget, we remember that Planned Parenthood contacted law enforcement, including the FBI, about a possible child prostitution at least a week before Rose released these doctored tapes.
What doctored videos? Oh those
Keep grasping at those straws Lila. People with common sense aren’t buying what you’re selling.