The Abject Depravity Of Lila Rose's Smear Campaign Against Planned Parenthood

Yesterday, Planned Parenthood explained that the employee at their Richmond, Virginia, clinic who was featured in one of Lila Rose's videos “reacted professionally to a highly unusual person posing as a patient” and “immediately notified her supervisor, who subsequently notified members of Planned Parenthood's national security team, who are working with the FBI, which is investigating these visits.” ABC News also reported that “the Richmond clinic worker appears to act professionally and appropriately,” adding:

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.

Yet in a post accompanying the Friday video dump that proved epically embarrassing for Lila Rose, her organization lectured employees at Planned Parenthood clinics on how to properly respond when alone in an office with a man who claims to be a pimp exploiting teenage women:

“It is utterly disgusting that Planned Parenthood's response to this is that their employee reacted 'professionally,'” said Live Action President Lila Rose. “The only acceptable response to encountering a self-identified sex-trafficker of underage girls is zero tolerance.

The only 'professional' response is to immediately call law enforcement to the scene and push for an arrest. Our investigation - and their response - continues to show that an institutional crisis has engulfed the highest levels of Planned Parenthood. If you're a sex-trafficker of minors or young women, you have a partner in Planned Parenthood. But if you are a minor or a young woman, you are not safe at Planned Parenthood clinics,” Rose continued.

As Amanda Marcotte noted:

Think about if he was a real pimp; if Planned Parenthood tried to do that, he would a) likely escape, b) likely physically assault and possibly kill someone in the office, and c) become a stone wall for information on the whereabouts of his slaves. Pimps are bad people who have no problem enacting violence, especially against women. That's how this works in grown-up land.

Now keep Live Action's condescending tone in mind while you watch a clinic worker sitting in an apparently closed office in Falls Church, Virginia, tell a man claiming to be a sex worker that clinics are required to report statutory rape.