Planned Parenthood Deserves the ACORN Treatment

Human Events ^ | 9-25-09 | Gary Bauer

[Wolf13]

For James O’Keefe, the sequel has been a blockbuster. As almost everyone knows by now, the investigative journalist and a friend secretly filmed themselves posing as a pimp and prostitute while ACORN workers advised them how to obtain a mortgage for a brothel of Latin American sex slaves.

But lost in the deserved attention to the ACORN sting film has been O’Keefe’s first release, a 2007 expose of the systemic corruption at another liberal activist organization, Planned Parenthood.

ACORN is losing some of its federal funding in part because of O’Keefe’s video. But the Planned Parenthood story, in which O’Keefe and a friend posing as his pregnant minor girlfriend expose the abortion giant’s willingness to cover up alleged statutory rape, is just as incriminating.

Planned Parenthood deserves the same treatment ACORN is getting and should be stripped of the hundreds of millions of tax-payer dollars it receives annually. For that to happen, the conservative media must give O’Keefe’s debut film another look.

The similarities between ACORN and Planned Parenthood are hard to ignore. Like ACORN, which seeks to “help those who have historically been locked out become powerful players in our democratic system,” Planned Parenthood has a noble-sounding mission.

“For more than 90 years,” its website informs us, “we’ve worked to improve women’s health and safety… and advance the right and ability of individuals and families to make informed and responsible choices.”

But both organizations are marred by a culture of corruption. Employees at ACORN affiliates have been accused of everything from voter registration fraud and embezzlement to aiding and abetting illegal immigration and prostitution.

At Planned Parenthood, besides O’Keefe’s sting, its affiliates have also ignored numerous cases of actual statutory rape and sexual abuse of minors.

[sickoflibs]

Democrats killing their unborn babies??? Is that less democrats and less criminals??

[xcamel]

What.. for covering up statutory rape and incest at every chance they get??

Noooo....