Race-Motivated Donations Plague Planned Parenthood

By Steven Foley - Opinion

Ok! Right off the bat I have to tell you this is the sickest story I've had the misfortune of researching in a long time. Although it turns my stomach to comment on, I would be remiss not to share it with our readers.

Students at the UCLA based pro-life publication, The Advocate in California taped phone calls in an investigation linking Planed Parenthood and racism.

The results are sickening:

Much more and video below the fold!

CNSNews confirmed the call with Planned Parenthood of Central Ohio and they said this:

Planned Parenthood of Central Ohio confirmed to Cybercast News Service that the telephone conversation with a presumed donor occurred in mid-summer 2007, adding that it was not the policy of Planned Parenthood to accept donations specifically to underwrite abortions among minority women.

But the transcript, audio and video of the call tell a different story!

Here's a transcript of one of the calls made by James O' Keefe, a first-year law student and an advisor for the The Advocate, who made the call posing as a potential donor to Planned Parenthood of Ohio.

Planned Parenthood:"Planned Parenthood Administration, this is Lisa."
O'Keefe:"Hi. I am interested in making a donation today."
Planned Parenthood:"Let me put you through to Tim in our development office."
O'Keefe:"Is there anyone I can speak to now?"
Planned Parenthood:"Me."
O'Keefe: "Who am I speaking with now?"
Planned Parenthood: "My name is Lisa Hutton."
O'Keefe: "Lisa, what is your position?"
Planned Parenthood: "Administrative assistant."
O'Keefe: "When I underwrite an abortion, does that apply to minorities too?"
Planned Parenthood: "If you specifically want to underwrite it for a minority person, you can target it that way. You can specify that that's how you want it spent."
O'Keefe: "Okay, yeah, because there's definitely way too may black people in Ohio. So, I'm just trying to do my part."
Planned Parenthood: "Hmm. Okay, whatever."
O'Keefe: "Blacks especially need abortions too. So, that's what I'm trying to do."
Planned Parenthood: "Well, for whatever reason, we'll accept the money."
O'Keefe:"Great, Thank You."
Planned Parenthood:"Mmmm, hmmm."

Here's the video:

O'Keefe told Cybercast News Service it was his voice on the recording and that the recording has not been doctored. "Nothing was done to change the content," he said. "I think the audio clearly speaks for itself."

O' Keefe explained that part of his motivation for placing the call was to fight the racism he perceives in Planned Parenthood.

"African-Americans today are targeted by the abortion industry and suffer deeply because of it," he said. "Planned Parenthood makes a profit off of their operations. We wanted to reveal their racist past - and the practical racism of their policies today - reflected in their other operations. Planned Parenthood must be held accountable for their actions, both past and present."

This is disturbing on a number of levels but one can't help but be appalled at the racist underpinnings here. As someone who thinks the abortion issue is complex enough without adding this type of hot-button controversy to it, I must say if we're going to have these death shops they must be operated at a level higher than this!

Planned Parenthood can't be permitted to use race as an incentive in which to collect donations, Period!!!


Cross posted from The Minority Report