Sting Operation Reveals Planned Parenthood Aiding Sex Trafficking

In a series of sting operations fast gaining national publicity, LiveAction, a pro-life group from New Jersey, visited several Planned Parenthood facilities to research how the nation’s premier abortion provider reacted to illegal sexual activities.

Using a hidden camera, a black male posing as a pimp would ask to speak to a manager. Once alone and assured of his confidentiality, he explained that he was a sex worker and wanted to send in the girls he, “managed,” for exams, contraceptive consultation, and possible abortions.

He explained that many of them didn’t have identification and spoke limited or no English. He specified that some were Asian, as young as fourteen or fifteen, and were not in the country legally.

The most controversial video featured a January 13, 2011 visit to a Planned Parenthood facility in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. When presented with the story, manager Amy Woodruff casually explained how to get around the rules, and how the pimp should coach the girls on what to say.

She laid out what lies the girls should tell to avoid legal snags, and even told them which employees at the clinic to avoid. She gave them a book on minor’s rights and called it her bible. She gave them paperwork detailing where girls fourteen and under could receive no-questions-asked-abortions.

“People are like, ‘Oh, she’s a minor,’” she quips. “And it’s like, 'Yeah, so?’ She’s still entitled to care, without mom knowing what the hell’s going on.”

She gave helpful tips on how the girls could still work while recovering from abortions. “From the waist up,” she repeated. “Or, they could be just that thing walking by to get attention.”

Woodruff has been dismissed, and the Perth Amboy clinic is under FBI investigation. Videos of other encounters show more professionalism, but pro-life activists maintain the supposed pimp, while openly admitting to illegal sexual activity involving minors, is never reported or even discouraged.

Planned Parenthood insists that after the encounters, the managers reported suspicious behavior to their supervisors. Regardless, the videos are generating controversy over Planned Parenthood’s government funding and exploitation of sexual abuse victims. Pro-life activists hope the public consciousness toward sex crimes will help re-open the closed topic of abortion.

Already, as a direct reaction to the videos, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie vetoed a bill that sends $7.5 million to Planned Parenthood, citing budget deficits. The state legislature is fighting his decision. Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council is lobbying for lawmakers in his native Virginia to cut off government funding for Planned Parenthood entirely, and calls activists in others states to do the same.

Last January, Planned Parenthood opened a six-story facility in Houston that performs abortions up until birth. It is one of the largest in the world, and one of only a couple American facilities authorized to perform late-term abortions. Its strategic placement in minority neighborhoods had many calling racism.