State lawmakers have introduced legislation that could end taxpayer subsidies to Planned Parenthood in Tennessee due to the release of undercover footage from a Memphis Planned Parenthood clinic.
Lila Rose, 20-year-old president of Live Action, the group responsible for the footage, says the unedited video further exposes Planned Parenthood’s reckless counseling practices.
Rose, posing as a 14-year-old girl impregnated by a 31-year-old man, says on the tape: “My boyfriend said he could pay for everything. But he shouldn’t come here to pay ’cause you’ll see him, right?” The Planned Parenthood counselor replies, “It doesn’t matter. As long as your parents are not here and can’t identify him, he can just pay and that’s it. He could be like your older brother or whatever.”
Rose commends the Tennessee state lawmakers who have questioned the state’s $700,000 funding of Planned Parenthood. She said, “Why would citizens tolerate paying the bills of an organization that protects statutory rapists and victimizes young girls? This is the sad result of the careless abortion-first mentality that has persisted at Planned Parenthood for decades.”
Live Action has released similar footage from five other clinics, located in Arizona and Indiana, as part of its Mona Lisa Project, which shows Planned Parenthood employees as they respond negligently to reports of statutory rape and offer secret abortions instead.
Evangelical Press News Service
