Undercover Videos Prompt Tennessee Lawmakers to End Preferential Treatment for Planned Parenthood

Monday June 22, 2009

LOS ANGELES, CA, June 22, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Tennessee legislators passed a law Thursday that threatens to strip Planned Parenthood of over $1 million in federal grant funding. Under the new statute, local community health clinics will be given priority for Title X family planning funds instead of Planned Parenthood.

Live Action Films says that the move was inspired by undercover videos by the group from a Planned Parenthood clinic in Memphis released earlier this year. The videos show a counselor urging a 14-year-old girl to lie about the age of the 31-year-old "boyfriend" who impregnated her so she can obtain a secret abortion. the rest