First, Planned Parenthood’s CEO apologized for the undercover videos exposing its trafficking of aborted baby body parts. Then it backtracked and claimed the videos were “heavily edited.” Now, it’s saying the videos were entirely “faked.”
The undercover videos by the Center for Medical Progress have damaged the abortion giant’s already shady reputation. Since last summer, CMP has released a dozen undercover videos showing various Planned Parenthood employees discussing the sale of aborted babies body parts. These videos have prompted numerous state and federal investigations, as well as efforts to ban the sale of aborted babies’ body parts and end taxpayer funding to the abortion chain.
Planned Parenthood has been trying without success to discredit the videos. Several forensic analyses of the undercover videos, including one by Planned Parenthood, found no “widespread evidence of substantive video manipulation,” LifeNews reported.
Perhaps the abortion group hopes people have forgotten the results of these forensic analyses. A report on Twitchy points out how the abortion business recently published a series of tweets describing the undercover videos as “fake”:
Since faked criminal videos hit, politicians in 24 states have tried to cut patients’ access to Planned Parenthood. pic.twitter.com/P5fO652lqy
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) April 23, 2016
Lawmakers are relying on lies from anti-abortion extremists to block patients from PP. https://t.co/SeJ9mhIyO1 pic.twitter.com/mmQfENNQFn — Planned Parenthood (@PPact) April 25, 2016
Lawmakers are targeting access to care at PP based on a fake, criminal video campaign coordinated by indicted anti-abortion extremists.
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) April 23, 2016
But followers on Twitter did not let Planned Parenthood get away with it:
@PPact what parts of the videos are fake? Sadly not the baby parts from the murdered babies. — Daniela ن (@2Cori_5_17) April 23, 2016
@PPact Not “faked”. And you know that. https://t.co/R2KsNwYbti
— Casey Mattox (@CaseyMattox_) April 23, 2016
@PPact what was “fake,” specifically? Were your employees actually computer animations?
— Jason Van Steenwyk (@jwvansteenwyk) April 24, 2016
Speaking of cutting, how many defenseless little human beings have you cut up in that span? @PPact https://t.co/StiOKnqu4n — Pablo (@Pablo_1791) April 24, 2016
“Faked.” Apparently the Center for Medical Progress developed mind control & forced @ppact to say those things. ? https://t.co/WtTG3DEPjt — Erik Soderstrom (@soderstrom) April 24, 2016
Weren’t faked If they were why did PP apologize for what videos showed ??? @PPact
— Beth Reynolds (@BethReynoldsGSD) April 23, 2016
For a while, Planned Parenthood was describing the undercover videos as “heavily edited,” a deceptive line that the mainstream media has repeated often. However, CMP leader David Daleiden and his fellow undercover investigators maintain that they conducted and reported about their undercover investigation the same way other journalists do. Mollie Hemingway, senior editor at The Federalist, pointed out on Monday how a new 60 Minutes segment used similar methods to CMP while investigating a Republican call center where members of Congress spend time raising money for their campaigns:
Good news everyone! OK for journalists to secretly film again.* https://t.co/zG4oVCqb6P *offer not applicable to one side of abortion issue — Mollie (@MZHemingway) April 25, 2016
.@Ryan_kearns shocking news: @CBSNews not only edited video but used B roll for context (like we allow for 100% of non-fetal market stories)
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) April 25, 2016
Perhaps Planned Parenthood thinks it can get away with calling the CMP videos “fake” because it has the mainstream media on its side. But it is becoming more difficult to deceive the American people as state and federal investigations uncover new evidence exposing Planned Parenthood’s deceptive and life-destroying practices.