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Contact: [email protected], (323) 454-3304 MILWAUKEE, February 23--New undercover footage shows staff at a Milwaukee, WI Planned Parenthood abortion clinic counseling a purportedly 14-year-old statutory rape victim not to tell anyone about her 31-year-old boyfriend and coaching her how to obtain an abortion without her parents' consent. The new video, ninth in a series from Live Action documenting similar behavior in 5 other states, comes amid recent controversy about Planned Parenthood's compliance with state laws regarding minors and abortion. In the video, after hearing the girl is 14 and her boyfriend is "much older," the counselor says whether or not the... read more →

SAN JOSE, CA., Dec. 18 --  At approximately 11:50am on Thursday, December 17th, 2009, Live Action President Lila Rose was struck by a male uniformed Planned Parenthood escort. The attack occurred on a public sidewalk outside a Planned Parenthood affiliate located at 1691 The Alameda in San Jose, California. Lila Rose was visiting the abortion clinic with a group of about 20 students and three adults to pray and provide information to women who might be open to abortion alternatives. According to a police report filed at the scene, supported by several witnesses, the following interaction took place between Miss... read more →

Contact: [email protected], (323) 454-3304 MILWAUKEE, Feb. 25--After an undercover video released Tuesday showed staff at their Milwaukee abortion clinic agreeing to cover up the sexual abuse of a purportedly 14-year-old girl by her 31-year-old "boyfriend," Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin says they "were unable to make any report" of the suspected abuse because the girl would not give the clinic any identifying information. Live Action, the group responsible for the video, has released extended footage proving Planned Parenthood's claim false. In the extended footage, a Planned Parenthood counselor, "Sonia," after coaching the purported 14-year-old to obtain a judicial bypass waiver for... read more →

Contact: [email protected], (323) 454-3304 LOS ANGELES--Live Action, the youth-led pro-life group responsible for exposing statutory rape cover-up, racism, and medical misinformation at Planned Parenthood, is preparing to launch several major investigations of the abortion industry next year. A donor fund has awarded Live Action a $125,000 matching gift, and Live Action is now starting a fundraising campaign to match the gift and fund the new investigations. Since 2007, Rose has led teams of young people undercover into dozens of Planned Parenthood clinics across the country, documenting rampant sexual abuse cover-up, violation of parental consent and notification laws, and medical misinformation... read more →

Contact: [email protected], (323) 454-3304 BROOKLYN, N.Y.,  March 24 — Kingsborough Community College has reversed their ban on student Joseph Hayon’s distribution of a pro-life magazine after receiving a letter from the Alliance Defense Fund. On September 24th the Kingsborough Community College, located in Brooklyn, New York, ordered Joseph Hayon to stop distributing copies of Live Action’s national pro-life magazine, “The Advocate.”  Live Action encouraged Hayon to call the Alliance Defense Fund to ensure that his First Amendment rights to freedom of speech were upheld. On Hayon’s behalf, the Alliance Defense Fund sent a letter on March11th to the Community College... read more →

Contact: [email protected], (323) 454-3304 WASHINGTON, DC - June 15 The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a new report on the amount of federal funds provided to organizations that promote or provide abortions, including Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion chain in the United States, performing over 300,000 abortions according to their latest annual report. The report was requested by Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) and several key Members of Congress.  Live Action, Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America will join the members for a press conference to highlight the report findings and detail why funding of... read more →

Contact: [email protected], 323-454-3304 APPLETON, Wisc., Dec. 15 -- Responding to last week's release of an undercover video showing biased counseling at an Appleton, WI Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, Wisconsin State Senator Glenn Grothman called on authorities to investigate and declared that state legislators should "make sure Planned Parenthood doesn't mislead young girls like this in the future." In the video, both the abortion doctor and counselor repeatedly insist to a reportedly 10-week-pregnant woman that the unborn child "is not a baby" and offer several contradicting definitions of "embryo" and "fetus." The counselor claims that the fetus's heart does not start... read more →

Contact: [email protected], (323) 454-3304 INDIANAPOLIS, July 20--The youth-led pro-life group Live Action released a new undercover video today showing staff at an Indianapolis Planned Parenthood clinic using manipulative and medically inaccurate counseling to convince a young woman to have an abortion. This is the third undercover video Live Action has released showing abusive counseling practices at Planned Parenthood of Indiana. When the woman, purportedly 10-weeks pregnant, asks the clinician, named "Sarah," when her baby's heart begins to beat, Sarah replies, "It's around I think the 8th or the 9th week that you can hear the heartbeat." The heart actually begins... read more →

Contact: [email protected], (323) 454-3304 MILWAUKEE, March 1--Live Action has made public the full, unedited video from an undercover investigation released last week of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Milwaukee, WI. The footage shows clinic staff counseling a purportedly 14-year-old statutory rape victim not to tell anyone about her 31-year-old "boyfriend" and coaching her how to obtain an abortion without her parents' consent. In Wisconsin, sex between an adult and a minor under age 16 is a felony, and health care professionals are required to report such cases to law enforcement immediately. Last week, Planned Parenthood Wisconsin CEO Teri Huyck called... read more →

Contact: [email protected], (323)454-3304 Appleton, December 9 — New undercover footage from an Appleton, WI, Planned Parenthood abortion clinic shows clinic staff, including the abortion doctor, lying to two young women about fetal development and encouraging the one who is pregnant to obtain an abortion because “women die having babies.” In the undercover video, when the two women ask a Planned Parenthood counselor if the pregnant woman’s 10-week-old unborn child has a heartbeat, the counselor emphasizes “heart tones,” and answers, “Heart beat is when the fetus is active in the uterus–can survive–which is about seventeen or eighteen weeks.” On the contrary,... read more →