The Lila Rose Planned Parenthood Sting
Release date: February 2011
Stingers: Lila Rose and Live Action
Target: Planned Parenthood
What happened: Anti-abortion activist Lila Rose got two actors to pose as sex traffickers, who secretly taped their interactions with clinic managers. They asked about medical care for prostitutes as young as 14 (who didn’t exist) and about treatment for STDs. Planned Parenthood, warned about the possible stings, asked law enforcement to look into whether a sex trafficker was actually doing this.
Scalps: One Planned Parenthood manager was fired. The organization announced that other employees would be retrained to deal with people asking for advice on illicit behavior. The Republican House added a rider defunding Planned Parenthood to its spending bill, but only 10 Democrats voted with them—a far cry from the wobbliness after the ACORN sting.
Rating: 3. Too much of the same to attract media attention.