The ACORN-ing of Planned Parenthood continues

[marmar]

Planned Parenthood 'targeted' by anti-abortionists
Healthcare provider believes hoax clients are inquiring about sex-selection abortions in ploy to discredit group

Karen McVeigh in New York
guardian.co.uk, Monday 23 April 2012


A series of suspicious incidents at Planned Parenthood clinics across the country has led the group to believe they have been targeted in an undercover sting operation by anti-abortionists.

Clinics for the healthcare provider have reported an escalation in so-called "hoax visits", in which female clients ask leading questions about sex selection abortions, in interviews they believe are being secretly recorded in a ploy to discredit the organisation.

The increase in the suspicious incidences at clinics has led to concern at the organisation that it is part of a national propaganda campaign against the group.

It has led to a counter-PR campaign by Planned Parenthood. In a statement published in the reproductive health website RHReality Check, the organisation described "secret videotaping tactics with fictitious patient scenarios and selective editing" as a tactic that opponents of reproductive health and rights had employed against the group for years. ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/24/planned-parenthood-anti-abortionists

[Ian David]

1. I don't trust The Guardian. They can't even spell. "Organisation?" Really?

Yes, I know...

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. That is how organization is spelled

in the UK

[izquierdista]

5. We should send them a bunch of Webster's dictionaries

That way they could look up the right spellings.

[ananda]

6. Like originzation..

.. the rightwing throwback spelling.

Or maybe it should be capitalised....

... or erazed. (That's how the Brits pronounce erased.)

[Ian David]

7. I know. I was kidding. n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. It's the British spelling.

[arthritisR_US]

2. The Rwingbats have no shame! Gawd I hate

these people.

[JHB]

3. Breitbart did it with ACORN, so now the imitators are in gear.

[xchrom]

8. Du rec. Nt

[Celebration]

9. Planned Parenthood needs to record themselves

That way they will have evidence when things are taken out of context.

[jeff47]

15. Um....no.

Even assuming it was legal in whatever state, the recordings become confidential medical records protected by federal law. Even when it's a fake patient. So they can't be released as evidence.

[zbdent]

11. this type of behavior is not unexpected ... especially in light of an article a few years back

in the Akron Beacon Journal ...

there was a corporation which, while bribing a local community with a football stadium in Akron, was priding itself in doing push-poll phone surveys for Republicans.

I had this feeling that, while they were not engaged in paid push-polling, they were instructed in phoning in to local stations with statements like "Hi, my name is X from Y, and I'm a lifelong Democrat but ..." and going off on a rant about whatever it is they're pushing.

So, paid "sex selection abortion seekers" would not surprise me ...

[The Wielding Truth]

16. ACORN should be reinstated.Congress made a bad knee jerk decision that should be reversed w/

compensation. They were hit with a campaign of deceit and fraud. The perpetrators should be prosecuted.

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. It's now against the law to secretly video farms in MO

We need the same law for medical clinics.

I know - I'm dreaming.