{"id":6664,"date":"2011-09-27T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T21:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/?p=6664"},"modified":"2013-04-01T06:20:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T10:20:08","slug":"breaking-congress-to-investigate-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/breaking-congress-to-investigate-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Congress to investigate Planned Parenthood&#8217;s funding, sex trafficking cover-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>For the first time in history, Congress has launched their own investigation into the well known abuse scandals and sex-trafficking cover-up within the walls of the nation&#8217;s biggest abortion chain, Planned Parenthood. <\/strong>Just seven months ago, Live Action&#8217;s undercover videos prompted the first congressional defunding of Planned Parenthood. As well as releasing evidence documenting Planned Parenthood&#8217;s sexual abuse coverup and willingness to assist child sex traffickers, our team sent the videos to Congress.\u00a0The following is Live Action president Lila Rose&#8217;s statement on the pending investigation:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div><strong>Contact: <\/strong>Kristina Hernandez, 323.454.3304, media@liveaction.org<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>We applaud Congress\u2019s first concrete steps to investigate Planned Parenthood, the biggest abortion business in the nation.\u00a0Last February,\u00a0the Live Action team released undercover videos showing seven Planned Parenthood clinics aiding and abetting the sex trafficking of children. In the wake of the videos, the House of Representatives voted to defund the abortion giant of the over $360 million they receive in federal funds. This step by Rep. Stearns to further investigate Planned Parenthood\u2019s abusive and lawless activities is essential to protecting victims of abuse, our young girls, and our unborn brothers and sisters.<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Lila Rose\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/images\/stories\/lila1.jpg\" width=\"238\" height=\"141\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Over the past four years, the Live Action team has been conducting national undercover investigations of abortion giant Planned Parenthood. Our undercover footage has documented the widespread cover-up of child sexual abuse in 10 different states, the aiding and abetting of child sex trafficking, willingness to commit race-based abortions, and the coercion and manipulation of women. Despite these and other crimes against women and children, Planned Parenthood continues to receive over $360 million in taxpayer subsidies each year. Americans stand with Rep. Stearns\u2019s step to hold Planned Parenthood accountable for their on-going abusive activity that endangers women, the victims of abuse and young girls.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>Click \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/letterplanedparenthoodinvestivation.pdf\">here<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0read the Sept. 15 letter of Rep. Cliff Stearns, Investigative Subcommittee Chairman, requesting vital internal documents from Planned Parenthood in order to begin a Congressional investigation into the abortion giant.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Watch how Planned Parenthood aids and abets the sex trafficking of young girls:<\/div>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/L9Zj9yx2j0Y?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"560\" height=\"315\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/L9Zj9yx2j0Y?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in history, Congress has launched their own investigation into the well known abuse scandals and sex-trafficking cover-up within the walls of the nation&#8217;s biggest abortion chain, Planned Parenthood. 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