Evil Prefers Lies and Darkness

Pro-life UCLA student threatened with lawsuit

Planned Parenthood is “trying to destroy the evidence of what they have done.”

Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles has threatened a lawsuit against a student reporter, Lila Rose, who revealed that clinic staff encouraged her to hide statutory rape. Rose, posing as a 15-year old, told staff at Santa Monica Planned Parenthood that she was impregnated by a 23-year old man. She published the account in the May 9 Advocate, a pro-life student magazine at UCLA. Hidden camera videos of the encounter were aired on YouTube.com. [See story, May 11 California Catholic Daily.]

“I received an e-mail in my personal e-mail box on Sunday from the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood in Los Angeles,” Rose told California Catholic Daily. The May 14 letter from Mary-Jane Wagle said Rose’s videos violate the California Invasion of Privacy Act because they were “apparently obtained through false pretenses and unlawfully” since the conversations “were surreptitiously recorded without the knowledge and consent of the PPLA employees.”

Wagle demanded that Rose “immediately cease and desist from any recording of any communication with any PPLA employee without his/her consent,” that she remove from YouTube.com “any portions of the videos containing the illegal surreptitious recordings,” and that she “immediately relinquish to PPLA the original and any copies of all communications with PPLA employees you have recorded without their consent.” If Rose refuses “to take these three steps,” said Wagle, Planned Parenthood “will seek all appropriate legal remedies.” Wagle gave Rose until May 18 to comply with the demand.