I hope this isn't boring you guys, but I need to do some more blogging on the Live Action/Lila Rose situation. As I've noted before, Rose knows and works with James O'Keefe, and she shares his belief that deceptive editing and outright lying are acceptable means to their ends. The chance that deceptive editing isn't in play with these Planned Parenthood videos was nearly nil; these come from the same group of people who edited Shirley Sherrod to be saying something the opposite of what she was saying, and edited videos to make it seem like ACORN was doing stuff it wasn't. (For instance, O'Keefe edited a video to make a worker who was suggesting that a trafficked woman hide money from her pimp so she could escape look like she was saying she should hide money from the IRS.) Rose has been known to engage in deceptive editing before, and as I noted, she reneged on her agreement to debate me when I made it clear that she wouldn't have a chance to edit it to make it seem like I said things I didn't.
Now the evidence is in. We know that Rose deceptively edited at least one of the videos she's released, changing the audio around to make it sound like a Planned Parenthood employee is saying something she didn't say. Ironically, even in the edited video, the employee isn't saying anything wrong, but in the full length video, it's even more clear that the employee didn't address judicial bypass until all other explanations had been exhausted. This matters, because the narrative on Fox News---echoed by a concern troll who is pretty clearly lying about his own views on this site---is that it's somehow wrong to inform teenagers of their legal right to judicial bypass. Not only is it not wrong to inform patients of all their rights, it's the moral and often legal duty of medical professionals to do so, as explained by Media Matters:
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http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/lila_rose_big_time_liar_and_all_around_horrible_person/
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