Producers of “The Decency Gap” convince YouTube to pull exposé video

Eve Reinhardt / Carlos PoloCNA STAFF, Jul 2, 2008 / 09:42 am (CNA).- The producers behind the documentary, “The Decency Gap,” have convinced YouTube to pull a video filmed by the Population Research Institute that unmasked the film as a pro-abortion initiative.

The video on YouTube entitled, “The Decency Gap/Eve Reinhardt,” shows a meeting between Carlos Polo, director for Latin America of the PRI, and film maker Eve Reinhardt, who hid the true nature of the project in order to get an interview with the pro-life leader.

“The Decency Gap,” which is intended to promote the legalization of abortion in the region, is financed by the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), Marie Stopes International and the Center for Reproductive Rights, as well as the Peruvian pro-abortion association PROMSEX.

The video shows an interview that took place several weeks ago in Lima. It did not violate the terms of use established by YouTube, which forbids posting videos that are violent, pornographic or violate copyright or privacy laws.

It also includes pictures of the official website of “The Decency Gap” which confirm that it is being financed by transnational pro-abortion organizations and aims to regain access to U.S. tax money for the promotion of abortion in other countries. Once their motivations were exposed, the producers pulled the website off the internet.

In the past YouTube has bowed to pressure from the IPPF to remove pro-life videos by the American Life League but has never pulled videos by the IPPF which users complain are obscene.

“The video shows the true identity of Reinhardt, which she tried to cleverly hide. She was not mistreated in any way, but you can see the understandable discomfort of Reinhardt as she was caught trying to trick others. It is embarrassing, for certain, but in any case she was the one trying to trick me,” Polo told CNA. He also revealed that Reinhardt sent him several emails without saying who she really was. “To pull that video only favors Reinhardt in her intention to trick more people. I know of two other people in Peru who, thanks to that video, avoided being deceived by her,” Polo said. “Eve Reinhardt agreed to allow our conversation to be filmed and that can be easily seen in the video,” he added.

This should help understand this:

The Decency Gap” Unmasked: Pro-Abortion Documentary Intended To Overturn The Mexico City Policy

by Carlos Polo

Population Research Institute has unmasked the real intentions of filmmaker Eve Reinhardt and her Multimedia Project “The Decency Gap”. Although Reinhardt claims that the documentary will be unbiased, PRI discovered that its real aim is to restore U.S. funding to groups like the International Planned Parenthood Federation and build support for legalizing abortion in poor countries.

With financial backing from worldwide abortion supporters, Reinhardt traveled to Peru this month seeking interviews with Catholic Bishops and pro-life leaders. As the Director of the Latin American office of the Population Research Institute, I was one of the first pro-lifers to be contacted. She told me in e-mails and over the phone that she was an “independent” film maker who wanted to interview people on both sides of the abortion debate. She also said that, while her project did not yet have a name, she had already interviewed Catholic Bishops and pro-life leaders in Cuzco and Lima.

It did not take me long to discover this was mostly a fabrication. Research on the Internet revealed that Reinhardt’s project did have a name after all. It was called “The Decency Gap.” I decided to give Reinhardt some of her own medicine. I agreed to meet with her, and brought along a video cameraman to record the encounter.

By then I knew that the project not only had a title, but also an official web site A quick review of this website showed that “The Decency Gap” was not and had never been a neutral production, as Reinhardt claimed, but rather was funded by some of the fiercest abortion proponents in the world, among them IPPF, Marie Stopes International and the Center for Reproductive Rights. Its principal purpose was to attack the U.S. government’s Mexico City policy, which prohibits U.S. family planning/population stabilization funding from going to organizations that perform abortions or promote their legalization in foreign countries. The international abortion industry clearly hoped that by funding such propaganda, it could influence American public opinion, and regain access to the taxpayer funds that it had been denied when Bush took office in 2001.

Within days of Polo’s surprise interview, The Deceny Gap’s website was taken offline.

An interview with PRI would have been of special interest to Reinhardt because of our effectiveness. Through our uncovering of human rights abuses, we have cost the abortion industry hundreds of millions of dollars in government subsidies. The evidence compiled on China’s one-child-per-couple policy and on forced sterilizations in Peru by the Fujimori government are only some of the investigations carried out by the Institute. The international pro-abortion movement has lost the better part of a billion dollars as a result.

Reinhardt hoped to conduct an ambush interview, but I was more than ready for her. My cameraman was recording before hers was even set up. My surprise interview of Reinhardt can be seen on YouTube here.

After the interview, Reinhardt actually apologized to me in an e-mail for misleading us. Of course I personally forgive her, but the whole episode is just one more illustration of the way that pro-abortion groups routinely lie to us. They invite pro-lifers to pseudo-debates that are supposedly unbiased, only to later call us “fundamentalists” and “backwards.” This time, however, the deception didn’t work.

“The Decency Gap” intended to portray pro-lifers as the “enemies” of poor women because we deny them abortions. In reality it is Catholic and evangelical religious groups who take care of poor women pregnant in difficult circumstances. The only thing ‘The Decency Gap’ collaborators are out for is to legally protect and financially aid the abortion industry.

The Deception Deepens

When our expose hit the news in Latin America and the United States, “The Decency Gap” collaborators quickly edited their website. They no longer, echoing the most radical pro-abortion groups, refer to the Mexico City policy as the Global Gag Rule. They are trying to project an image of neutrality on the issue, clearly hoping to entice pro-lifers who are still ignorant of their intent into more interviews. Despite the cosmetic changes, it is clear that their ultimate goals have not changed. They want the U.S. taxpayer to fund abortion around the globe. Not only that, they want to use U.S. funds to overturn laws protecting the unborn in developing countries. In the end, it’s all about money. [Ed. The Decency Gap website has since been taken offline. Visitors to the site are greeted with a black screen, bearing the title “The Decency Gap.”]

The Indecent Name of the “Decency Gap.”

The name of the project was carefully chosen to deceive people. But for those of us who follow pro-life issues closely it is quite revealing. It turns out that the term ‘The Decency Gap’ was coined by Poul Neilson, as the website explains. [Ed. The site is down. See above.]

Neilson, the European Union’s Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, came up with the term shortly after the EU announced it was going to help replace 34 million dollars in funding that the U.S. withdrew from the U.N. Population Fund in 2002. PRI had presented convincing evidence to the U.S. Congress of the UNFPA’s collaboration in China’s one child policy, which includes the forced abortion and sterilizations of poor women. This was a major pro-life coup, cutting off as it did funding to the world’s largest provider of abortion and birth control, one which was active in more than 140 countries. Neilson said that this action on the part of the U.S. showed that America suffered from a “decency gap.” We say it shows that America, as opposed to the EU, is a country that still has standards of decency.

The abortion industry tried to hide behind a facade of impartially. But lies will out.

Carlos Polo is Director of the Population Research Institute in Peru.

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