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Live Action Press Releases

• 03/31/15 Live Action Statement on GAO Report Finding Massive Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Industry Groups
• 08/13/14 MN Planned Parenthood Counselor Recommends Sex Shops, Encourages Abusive Sex to Teenager
• 08/08/14 Statement from Lila Rose on ‘Very Pornographic’ CA Curriculum
• 07/28/14 Statement from Lila Rose on CO attorney general
• 07/23/14 Planned Parenthood Exposed Peddling BDSM to Teens in Oregon

More press releases here.

In the News

August

08-13 OP-ED: Planned Parenthood gives S&M advice
Lila Rose, The Hill
What’s appropriate sex education for a teen girl? Safe to say everyone agrees it’s not how to experiment sexually with ‘whips,’ ‘asphyxiation,’ ‘chains,’ and ‘pain.'”

08-13 Planned Parenthood Counselor to Teen: ‘Anything’ Sexual Is Normal ‘as Long as It’s Consensual'”
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
Nearly half of Planned Parenthood’s budget is derived from taxpayers. Live Action observes that Planned Parenthood received over $540 million in taxpayer funds in its last reported fiscal year.

08-08 Planned Parenthood Looks the Other Way
Caroline Craddock, National Review Online
“Lila Rose, founder and president of Live Action, tells NRO in an interview that her organization has ‘been involved in publicizing other cases like R.Z.’s because it is so important for people to know how widespread a problem this is.’”

08-04 Modesty as Best Policy
Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online
“Or we could talk about Jell-O. That’s the BDSM (bondage, domination, sado-masochism) ‘safe word’ (a word to use if things start getting out of hand) a worker at a Planned Parenthood clinic shares with a 15-year-old who is trying to keep sex from being ‘boring.'”

July

07-29 Planned Parenthood Sued for Not Reporting Child Rape; Sends Victim Back to Abuser After Performing Abortion
Melissa Barnhart, The Christian Post
Lila Rose, president of Live Action, said she’s pleased that her organization’s investigative report has spurred authorities to at least look into allegations of suspected criminal activity at Planned Parenthood.

07-28 Is Planned Parenthood’s ‘Torture Sex’ Advice Making Its Way Into the Classroom?
Melissa Barnhart, The Christian Post
“According to Live Action, Planned Parenthood receives $500 million a year in taxpayer funding, which includes sex education for teens.”

07-28 Colorado Attorney General To Investigate Planned Parenthood For Possible Child Abuse
Tristyn Bloom, The Daily Caller
“Live Action is concerned that Planned Parenthood is systematically ignoring laws designed to protect minors from sex abuse–and are using taxpayer funds to do it.”

07-26 Colorado Atty. General to Investigate Planned Parenthood Videos Coaching Young Girls in BDSM
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
“The second installment of pro-life organization Live Action’s series titled ‘SexEd: Planned Parenthood’s Dangerous Sex Advice for Kids,’ features Denver Planned Parenthood counselors suggesting to the undercover investigator a spectrum of sadistic sexual behaviors, such as ‘whipping,’ ‘tying up,’ and ‘asphyxiation.'”

07-25 Planned Parenthood Faces New Allegations Involving Abuse of Minors
Wayne Laugesen, National Catholic Register
“Colorado Attorney General John Suthers told the Register he will have attorneys review the video of a Colorado Planned Parenthood employee coaching a woman pretending to be a 15-year-old girl to engage in dangerous sexual activity, to buy goods from an adult sex store and view and read pornography.”

07-24 Anti-abortion group releases undercover Planned Parenthood video
Chris Willis, KGW.com (Portland) (also published at NWCN.com)
Gloria Bernard was protesting outside the Portland Planned Parenthood location today. ‘The counseling is not what we would want young teenagers to hear,’ she said.”

07-23 VIDEO: Lila Rose discusses the SEXED Investigation with Bill O’Reilly
Bill O’Reilly, Fox News
“Once again: a strong viewer warning on this segment. What we are about to show you is ultra-disturbing. Children should not see it.”

07-23 PP counselor tells teen to let boyfriend beat her
Steven Ertelt, LifeNews
“Abortion activists claim pro-lifers are engaging in a “war on women[]” by passing legislation to protect women and unborn children from abortion. But a new exposé video catches a Planned Parenthood staffer engaging in her own war on women.”

07-23 AUDIO: What kind of sex advice is Planned Parenthood dishing out?
Lars Larson, The Lars Larson Show
“Lila Rose went undercover to find out!”

07-23 Planned Parenthood Counselor Talks ‘Karma Sutra’, Tells ‘Teen’ Where to Get Guidance on ‘Sex and Kinkiness’
Billy Hallowell, TheBlaze
“After the ‘teen’ asks a counselor at Planned Parenthood Clackamas Center in Clackamas, Oregon, whether role-playing is normal, the staffer offers up a plethora of information about the different options available to couples.”

07-23 Planned Parenthood Employee Suggests Teens Pretend to be Babies During Sex
Katie Yoder, Newsbusters
“Planned Parenthood might champion the destruction of babies in the womb, but the sometimes the abortion giant finds babies a real turn-on.”

07-23 OP-ED: Planned Parenthood having a rocky summer
Lila Rose, The Colorado Springs Gazette
“Planned Parenthood is rife with scandal, but it’s rare to see a trifecta of shocking, disgusting stories publicly emerge like this, centered all at the same time on one particular affiliate.”

07-23 Planned Parenthood teen sex education: You could get tied to a tree …
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
“This isn’t education. It’s indoctrination, and the cultivation of Planned Parenthood clients for the next 20 years.”

07-23 Planned Parenthood: Girls, Experiment with Getting ‘Spanked, Whipped, or Hit’
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
“A previous video showed Planned Parenthood staffers in Indianapolis giving advice to an undercover investigator on how to engage in bondage/discipline and sadomasochistic sex (BDSM), in addition to accessing sex shops and pornographic websites.”

07-23 Yet Another Planned Parenthood Underage BDSM Video
Tristyn Bloom, The Daily Caller
“In uncensored transcripts obtained by the Daily Caller, the girl tells the counselor her boyfriend wanted to try some ‘kink,’ although she herself has no idea what that means.”

07-23 Another Planned Parenthood Caught Promoting X-Rated Advice to Underage Girls
Kelsey Harkness, The Daily Signal
“This time, the incident took place in Portland, Oregon, where an employee at the Planned Parenthood Clackamas Center told a 15-year-old girl how to best ‘enjoy’ sex and explore ‘different types of fetishes.’”

07-20 Axing Satan, Hobby Lobby’s Latest Legal Battle and a Rapper’s Conversion to Christianity: The Biggest Faith and Culture Stories of the Week
Dean Graham, TheBlaze
“We’re back with this week’s recap of the biggest stories in faith and culture.”

07-16 Unsafe sex: Planned Parenthood’s advice for teens
Andrew Branch, WORLD
“Live Action wants legislators to eliminate taxpayer funding for sex education at Planned Parenthood.”

07-16 Planned Parenthood Employee to 15-Year-Old: Watch Porn
Cortney O’Brien, Townhall
“Just when you thought there couldn’t be another Planned Parenthood scandal…”

07-15 Planned Parenthood Tells Underage Girl to Experiment with Whips, Asphyxiation; Go to Sex Shop (Video)
Melissa Barnhart, The Christian Post
“Even though it is against municipal law for a minor to enter a sex store, according to Live Action, the Planned Parenthood counselor tells the undercover 15-year-old that there are “tons of sex shops around here” that she and her boyfriend can visit in order to try different sex acts.”

07-15 Lila Rose on Hannity: “Planned Parenthood Pushes Dangerous Sexual Practices”
Sean Hannity, FOX News
“Doesn’t ‘stop’ mean stop?!”

07-15 Planned Parenthood sex education for teens, 50 Shades of Grey, sex shops, scatology
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
“Some of this wouldn’t be very good advice even for an adult, but for a teen it’s entirely inappropriate.”

07-15 In Video, Planned Parenthood Suggests Sadistic Sex to Teens
Kelsey Harkness, The Daily Signal
“‘Choking,’ ‘whipping,’ and ‘tying up’ are a few of the sadistic sexual behaviors Planned Parenthood staffers in Denver were caught on camera promoting to underage girls as part of Obamacare-supported “sex education” inside their facilities.”

07-15 Another Planned Parenthood Counselor Caught on Hidden Cam Giving Shocking Advice to ‘Teen’ About Porn, BDSM and Sex Shops
Billy Hallowell, TheBlaze
“One month after releasing a video showing a Planned Parenthood counselor giving some shocking guidance about porn and “kinky sex” to an investigator posing as a 15-year-old girl, Live Action, a pro-life group, has released additional undercover footage from two Colorado clinics.”

07-15 Planned Parenthood Schools Underage Girls In Violent Sex [VIDEO]
Tristyn Bloom, The Daily Caller
“This makes them more radical than many in the BDSM community. ‘I don’t think breath play is ever safe,’ said Phil Derby, owner of the San Francisco Citadel Club (‘San Francisco’s Premier Dungeon Space’). ‘We don’t allow it.'”

07-15 Planned Parenthood’s Sex Ed Pushes BDSM, ‘Asphyxiation’ to Teens
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
“In the video, one Planned Parenthood counselor tells Live Action’s investigator that a young girl’s use of words like ‘stop’ when she is uncomfortable ‘can get mixed up,’ resulting in the male partner wondering, ‘Does she really mean “stop,” or does she mean, you know, whatever?'”

07-15 Live Action Planned Parenthood Exposed Part 2: urination, defecation, when “no” means “yes”
Jill Stanek, JillStanek.com
“Along with teaching deviant, dangerous behavior such as urinating and defecating on one another, gagging, whipping, asphyxiation, being leashed like a dog, and using torture apparatus, the Littleton employee encourages the investigator to violate a law banning minors from entering sex shops.”

June

06-13 PP Worker ‘Fired’ For Promoting ‘Torture Sex’ to Teen Still On the Job
Zoey DiMauro, CNS News
“’They’re kind of speaking out of several sides of their mouth,’ Live Action president Lila Rose told CNSNews.com Thursday about what she called ‘the token firing’.”

06-12 Planned Parenthood, anti-abortion group at odds again
Tim Evans & Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star (via USA Today)
“A day after Planned Parenthood officials said an employee at the Indianapolis-Midtown Clinic — who was captured in video offering the controversial advice — no longer worked for the organization, Live Action claimed they were lying.”

06-12 Planned Parenthood didn’t actually fire the sex-counseling employee it claims to have fired
Ashe Schow, The Washington Examiner
“On Monday, June 9, the Live Action investigator called the Indianapolis Planned Parenthood and asked to make an appointment with Megan. The investigator even spoke to Megan, who remembered their March conversation.”

06-12 Planned Parenthood: Sex counseling on undercover video an aberration
Barb Berggoetz, The Indianapolis Star
“Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Tammy Lieber said Cockrum was not available Wednesday night to answer questions. Lieber also would not reveal whether the employee was fired or left voluntarily, or when that occurred, due to privacy policies.”

06-12 VIDEO: Planned Parenthood staff member caught on video making graphic suggestions
Drew Smith, The Indy Channel (RTV6, ABC)
“It’s no wonder each generation seems to get further and further away from the principles of family and decency and self-respect, when we are trying to teach our youth to be no more than an – animals don’t even act that way.  I can’t even degrade animals that way.”

06-12 VIDEO: Video from inside Indiana Planned Parenthood draws outrage
Matt McCutcheon, Eyewitness News (WTHR)
“Yeah, they should not obviously talking about any of that. Everything they were saying is inappropriate. … I mean, I think it’s terrible.”

06-12 Lawmaker Urges Colleagues To Defund Planned Parenthood Over ‘Extremely Questionable Sexual Practices’
Tristyn Bloom, The Daily Caller
“Huelskamp, who has four adoptive children of African American, Hispanic, and Native American descent, has called Planned Parenthood ‘a racist organization…created for the sole purpose of killing children that look like mine’ and has repeatedly called for it to be defunded.”

06-12 Planned Parenthood: BDSM advocate no longer counseling teens; Update: Live Action derides “the token firing” strategy
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
“We’ll see what happens after the next video drops.”

06-12 Planned Parenthood Of Indiana Clinic Under Fire For Providing BDSM Advice To 15-Year-Old
Gary R. Welsh, Advance Indiana
“LiveAction President Lila Rose founded her nonprofit group when she was just 15 years old. She previously made news when she recorded Planned Parenthood counselors in Indiana and Kentucky providing pregnancy advice to Rose, who posed as a 13-year old, without concern for reporting to authorities the fact that Rose told them that she had been impregnated by an adult.”

06-12 Planned Parenthood Indy’s BDSM pusher “no longer employed”
Jill Stanek, JillStanek.com
“In a statement, PPIK CEO Betty Cockrum tried to confuse the issue by satating, ‘We are here to ensure that persons of all ages may ask us anything…'”

06-11 VIDEO: CNN’s S.E. Cupp outraged at Planned Parenthood sex-ed video
S.E. Cupp, CNN
“If you’re outraged like I am that young women are getting that kind of sex ed from Planned Parenthood, I’m sorry to add insult to injury: your tax dollars are paying for it.”

06-11 VIDEO: Lila Rose Talks Planned Parenthood SexEd Scandal with Hannity
Sean Hannity, Fox News
“Call your local school board. Ask them, point-blank, ‘Do you have a relationship with Planned Parenthood?'”

06-11 Undercover Video Exposes Planned Parenthood’s ‘Dangerous Advice for Kids;’ Includes Bondage, Sadism (Video)
Melissa Barnhart, The Christian Post
“Among the Planned Parenthood videos aimed at teens are regular commentaries by Laci Green, a peer sex educator, who is paid by the organization’s Northern New England office to post videos about BDSM, abortion, birth control, STDs, and an array of sex acts on the organization’s ‘A Naked Notion’ website and YouTube channel.”

06-11 Planned Parenthood Staffer Schools Underage Girl in BDSM
Tristyn Bloom, The Daily Caller
“The complete, unedited footage, which TheDC was given access to, shows that the investigator had at no point prior to this mentioned BDSM or curiosity about dominatrices, whips, handcuffs or any of the other practices and ‘toys’ the staffer goes on to suggest.”

06-10 Charming: Planned Parenthood Teaching Teens About BDSM
Christine Rousselle, Townhall
“A new video investigation by Live Action shows that Planned Parenthood is using federal dollars to teach young teens about kinky sex techniques.”

06-10 Planned Parenthood keeps abortion safe, legal and deceptive
Lila Rose, The Washington Times
“The old saying goes, ‘Ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no lies.’ Our investigators keep asking the questions.”

06-10 AUDIO: Lila Rose and Live Action Expose Planned Parenthood!
Lars Larson, The Lars Larson Show
“Lila, the president of Live Action, joined us on the program to tell us more about what went into this investigation[.]”

06-10 Shocking Claim: Planned Parenthood Counselors Offered ‘Torture Sex’ Advice to Minors
Billy Hallowell, TheBlaze
“Rose charged that if a parent told his or her 15 year old how to whip someone, to cut themselves or to bite their partner during sex, that she believes child protective services would have a good case for removing that child from the home.”

06-10 Investigation: Planned Parenthood Uses Taxpayer Funding to Teach Teens Violent Sex Acts
Tristyn Bloom, The Daily Caller
“The trailer also shows counselors advising these girls that pain and injury during sex is acceptable and normal.”

06-10 Video: Planned Parenthood sex education everything you’d guess it would be
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
“Their new video inaugurates the site with an exposé of sex education from Planned Parenthood, both public and private, that focuses on some of the more unusual techniques of bondage, sadism, and pain.”

 06-10 Live Action Video: Planned Parenthood Instructs Minors on ‘Torture Sex’
Katie Yoder, Newsbusters
“Let’s pretend – just for a moment – to believe Planned Parenthood when the nation’s largest abortion mill maintains that the taxpayer money it receives doesn’t go toward the abortion side of its business.”

06-03 Taking Live Action in Congress Against Planned Parenthood
Dustin Siggins, National Catholic Register
“According to Live Action’s website, the abortions carried by Planned Parenthood are not the only reason its federal funding should be eliminated.”

May

05-30 Planned Parenthood’s Full-Spectrum Assault on Women
Dustin Siggins, The Daily Caller
“On Wednesday … the pro-life activists at Live Action came out with a tremendous new weapon aimed directly at Planned Parenthood[.]“

05-29 Live Action Releases ‘Damning Investigative Report’ on Planned Parenthood
Claire E. Healey, Townhall
“’I think the report is explosive,’ Rose said. ‘I think the report is a shocking and comprehensive view of what our nation has allowed all over our country.’”

05-29 Pro-Life Group Releases Scathing 6-Year Investigative Report on Planned Parenthood
Melissa Barnhart, The Christian Post
“Lila Rose, president of the pro-life youth led organization Live Action, distributed a 60-page six-year investigative report on Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, to members of Congress Wednesday, asking them to defund the organization.”

05-28 Report tracks abuses at abortion clinics, demands defunding
Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times
“’It’s a disgrace that we are all forced to fund’ Planned Parenthood, Ms. Rose said, calling for an immediate revocation of all taxpayer funds to the group.”

05-28 Activists renew fight over taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood
Elise Viebeck, The Hill
“Planned Parenthood dismissed the report’s allegations and said Live Action is trying to shut down its clinics.”

05-28 Pro-Life Group’s Report: Planned Parenthood Enabling Rape, Sex Trafficking, Child Abuse
Tristyn Bloom, The Daily Caller
“In all but six states, some kind of parental involvement or notification is required before a minor can have an abortion; Planned Parenthood staffers at seven of the clinics investigated counseled the girls on how to circumvent these laws.”

05-28 Pro-Life Organization Launches Planned Parenthood Exposé on Capitol Hill
Dr. Susan Berry, Breitbart
“Per its latest annual report, Planned Parenthood received $540.7 million in government (i.e., taxpayer) funds in 2011-2012. The corporation performed 327,166 abortions during that time.”

05-28 Live Action Exposes Planned Parenthood – Will Media Note?
Katie Yoder, NewsBusters
“It seems like prime media bait: a group accusing a taxpayer funded organization of horrors from racism to sex trafficking.”

05-28 Video: Live Action launches Planned Parenthood Exposed
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
“’Now that you know,’ the video asks, ‘what will you do?’”