{"id":160656,"date":"2017-02-07T12:03:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T17:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=160656"},"modified":"2017-02-08T11:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T16:00:02","slug":"media-caught-planned-parenthoods-web-lies-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/media-caught-planned-parenthoods-web-lies-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the media been caught in Planned Parenthood’s web of lies? (Part one)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new report released by Live Action\u00a0shows\u00a0that many media outlets have been caught up in Planned Parenthood’s web of lies.<\/p>\n

The documented evidence shows that Planned Parenthood repeatedly lied to media outlets after they were exposed in undercover video footage offering assistance to investigators, posing as pimps prostituting minor girls. The information stems from a 2011 investigation where Live Action investigators exposed eight Planned Parenthood clinic staffers at seven different Planned Parenthood facilities willing to aid and abet child sex traffickers by suggesting how to get abortions and birth control for their 14- and 15-year-old victims.<\/p>\n

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Live Action investigation states Planned Parenthood didn’t stop sex trafficking.<\/p><\/div>\n

After Live Action released the undercover footage exposing Planned Parenthood, the abortion chain claimed to the media that it would retrain thousands of staff members across the country to properly report suspected sexual abuse of minors to authorities.<\/p>\n

Stuart Schear, Vice President for Communications for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, released this statement<\/a> which read in part:<\/p>\n

It is also important to remember that Planned Parenthood acted swiftly when the initial publicized video, taped at a New Jersey health center, showed a now former Planned Parenthood staff member engaging in behavior that is appalling, inconsistent with Planned Parenthood\u2019s practices, and in violation of Planned Parenthood\u2019s policies. Planned Parenthood has a zero tolerance policy for this behavior and the employee was immediately terminated for violating Planned Parenthood\u2019s high standards of health care and ethical conduct.<\/p>\n

In addition, Planned Parenthood just announced an April 1, 2011, deadline for all health center staff and educators who have contact with patients and teens be retrained in understanding our policies and procedures for responding to situations that indicate that the welfare of a minor is endangered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shear then went on NPR and reiterated<\/a> their statement on retraining:<\/p>\n

We wanted to make sure that it was crystal clear that Planned Parenthood holds nothing more important than the welfare of minors and we are going to ask all of our staff between now and April 1st to go through a retraining on mandatory reporting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The media followed Planned Parenthood’s lead. UPI reported that Planned Parenthood had announced<\/a> retraining:<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood has announced plans to retrain employees in state laws regarding reporting suspected abuse of minors…Stuart Schear, vice president for communications, said the retraining would ensure employees are familiar with the laws in the states where they work, The New York Times reported. In a statement, Planned Parenthood said the retraining will be finished by April and after that any employees found to have violated local reporting laws will be fired.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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CNN<\/a> did the same:<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood has ordered “all health center staff and educators who have contact with patients and teens be retrained in understanding our policies and procedures for responding to situations that indicate that the welfare of a minor is endangered,” Stuart Schear, vice president for communications at Planned Parenthood, said in a statement issued Tuesday. The retraining will be completed by April 1, Schear said<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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On February 7, 2011, The New York Times reported<\/a> this:<\/p>\n

Reacting to the release of videotapes in which its staff members advise an apparent sex trafficker, Planned Parenthood said Monday that it would retrain thousands of staff members across the country on its rules for reporting possible dangers to minors, and would automatically fire anyone who violated them…When the retraining is completed in April, \u201ctermination of employment is the only possible action\u201d when staff members do not report potential abuses of minors, the federation said in a statement…They said employees had long been trained to obey local reporting laws as well as to use common sense when confronted with evidence of the abuse of minors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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CBS reported<\/a> the training this way:<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc.,…said…the goal of retraining was to show a “firm commitment” to reporting any potential harm to minors. Federation spokesman Stuart Schear emphasized that the training was not new but was meant as a refresher. He said training will follow state laws where affiliates have clinics. “We want to be crystal clear for those millions of people who come to us and trust us that we will never put a minor at risk,” he said..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

CBS was also told by the abortion chain that any employee who violated the policy would be terminated.<\/p>\n

Fox News<\/a>,\u00a0Politic<\/a>o<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0many others weighed in as well. They all simply took Planned Parenthood’s word at face value, almost blindly believing that the organization took reporting of child sexual abuse seriously and that they would be retraining to assure stringent policies were followed.<\/p>\n

However, according to a Planned Parenthood insider, that so-called “retraining” appears to have been an effort by the abortion corporation to instruct their staff on how to identify undercover operatives — like the Live Action investigative team — not to identify teens suffering under\u00a0sexual abuse.<\/p>\n

Ramona Trevi\u00f1o<\/a>, who was employed as the Sherman, Texas, Planned Parenthood manager when these so-called retraining sessions were to have occurred, revealed that instead of helping employees identify and report potential abuse, the retraining sessions instructed staff how to identify undercover journalists and whether they were being recorded.<\/p>\n