Group Behind Planned Parenthood Sting Video May Have Tricked IRS, Donors

[Lakhota]

The IRS thought it was some kind of biomedicine charity.

WASHINGTON -- The anti-abortion group that released an undercover "sting" video of a Planned Parenthood doctor this week appears to be a dummy nonprofit that may have deceived the Internal Revenue Service and the public about its mission.

The two-year-old Center for Medical Progress, which claims to be in the business of reporting on biomedical research, released undercover footage Tuesday of a Planned Parenthood doctor allegedly discussing the sale of fetal body parts after abortions. The video, which Planned Parenthood has denounced as misleading and heavily edited, was circulated widely and prompted House Republicans to launch an investigation into the family planning provider.

But as Slate reports, the Center for Medical Progress appears to be nothing more than a front organization for the anti-abortion group Live Action. That is not how the IRS understood it when considering the group's application for tax-exempt status, and not how the group originally presented itself to the public in soliciting donations.

If the Center for Medical Progress deliberately misled the IRS and donors about the nature of its nonprofit work, it could be subject to civil and criminal fraud penalties. IRS forms are signed under penalty of perjury, and a nonprofit misleading its donors about the nature of its work is "up there with all other kinds of fraud," according to Bruce Hopkins, an attorney who specializes in nonprofit law.

"The authorities have the right to shut down the charity, and the individuals behind the fraud can go to prison or pay a substantial fine," Hopkins said.

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards apologized in a video on Thursday for Nucatola's tone and statements in the video, but she maintained that the allegations about selling fetal body parts were "not true." Richards said that women seeking abortions sometimes choose to donate fetal tissue for scientific and medical research, and that Planned Parenthood follows "all laws and ethical guidelines" in doing so and makes no profit from the donations.

More: Group Behind Planned Parenthood Sting Video May Have Tricked IRS, Donors

The anti-choice zealots have no shame.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

GASP!!!!! Huffpo...the far left loon site? The video doesn't lie....they are selling baby parts

 

[bodecea]

GASP!!!!! Huffpo...the far left loon site? The video doesn't lie....they are selling baby parts

Nope...even the RW Congress members knew about this a month ago and smelled a rat.

 

[Stephanie]

You all got that?

MAY HAVE. Now that is some Responsible Reporting isn't it? what else did we expect? dirt and smears the liberal/left brand

hufferpuffer pumping out the Propaganda for the DNC/baby killing, body part selling of YOUR aborted children Industry: Planed parenthood .

These same people get pissed over someone wearing FUR from trapped animals

freaking sick human beings on that site and in the Democrat party

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Huffpo is so far left they are nearly falling off the planet, it's why I never go to AOL

 

[koshergrl]

Hahahahahahaha...it sounds like the baby killers are jealous! How dare somebody else lie about their purpose!

 

[emilynghiem]

The IRS thought it was some kind of biomedicine charity.

WASHINGTON -- The anti-abortion group that released an undercover "sting" video of a Planned Parenthood doctor this week appears to be a dummy nonprofit that may have deceived the Internal Revenue Service and the public about its mission.

The two-year-old Center for Medical Progress, which claims to be in the business of reporting on biomedical research, released undercover footage Tuesday of a Planned Parenthood doctor allegedly discussing the sale of fetal body parts after abortions. The video, which Planned Parenthood has denounced as misleading and heavily edited, was circulated widely and prompted House Republicans to launch an investigation into the family planning provider.

But as Slate reports, the Center for Medical Progress appears to be nothing more than a front organization for the anti-abortion group Live Action. That is not how the IRS understood it when considering the group's application for tax-exempt status, and not how the group originally presented itself to the public in soliciting donations.

If the Center for Medical Progress deliberately misled the IRS and donors about the nature of its nonprofit work, it could be subject to civil and criminal fraud penalties. IRS forms are signed under penalty of perjury, and a nonprofit misleading its donors about the nature of its work is "up there with all other kinds of fraud," according to Bruce Hopkins, an attorney who specializes in nonprofit law.

"The authorities have the right to shut down the charity, and the individuals behind the fraud can go to prison or pay a substantial fine," Hopkins said.

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards apologized in a video on Thursday for Nucatola's tone and statements in the video, but she maintained that the allegations about selling fetal body parts were "not true." Richards said that women seeking abortions sometimes choose to donate fetal tissue for scientific and medical research, and that Planned Parenthood follows "all laws and ethical guidelines" in doing so and makes no profit from the donations.

More: Group Behind Planned Parenthood Sting Video May Have Tricked IRS, Donors

The anti-choice zealots have no shame.

Dear Lakhota
RE: The anti-choice zealots have no shame
What about the shooting of abortion doctors or attacks on clinics?
When people are willing to break the law, even shoot a doctor in church,
to make a public statement, what does that tell you?

To be fair to prolife advocates who are lawabiding, and don't seek to violate laws or rights of others,
if you can imagine what it's like to BELIEVE and count all those unborn babies
as "murdered children" you might be able to sympathize with prolife believers.

If you can understand the outrage of people arguing "Black Lives Matter"
while watching Black people killed as if they don't count, but are just random numbers and not people,
THAT might be similar to how prolife people feel who grieve for aborted babies, and take
on the horror and emotions of the experiences of abortion, that other people seem to deny as nonexistent.

Of if you can understand people protesting the killing of innocent civilians in war,
while surrounded by others who treat these "numbers" as random "collateral damage"
and don't have any sense that a person was lost, who had a life, and relations with others
that are now gone, leaving behind a hole in the world where that person is now missing.

Maybe THAT might relate to how prolife people feel "horrified"
that nobody is considering the life of the child and the loss and suffering.

From THAT perspective, Lakhota, don't you think the
"prochoice" people appear to have "no shame" either?

 

[tyroneweaver]

so the irs is going to investigate another rw group....what could go wrong

 

[Lakhota]

NaziCons need to get ACORN "Pimp" O'Keefe on the case.

 

[Lakhota]

Aw, it looks like NaziCons are ignoring this thread. Gee, I wonder why?

 

[koshergrl]

The only ppl who have commented are prolife you moron.

 

[emilynghiem]

Aw, it looks like NaziCons are ignoring this thread. Gee, I wonder why?

Because none of this solves any problems.
Or provides any solutions to preventing abortion and related issues. Next?

 

[Lakhota]

Aw, it looks like NaziCons are ignoring this thread. Gee, I wonder why?

Because none of this solves any problems.
Or provides any solutions to preventing abortion and related issues. Next?

Aw, so you didn't post in the other thread that bashed Planned Parenthood??????

 

[Clementine]

GASP!!!!! Huffpo...the far left loon site? The video doesn't lie....they are selling baby parts

Yes, but the left would deny that even in the face of absolute proof. They say don't judge PP until all facts are in, yet when it comes to those who exposed PP for being a slimy, unscrupulous organization, they convict them in the media and don't need proof to run with allegations.

 

[Lakhota]

GASP!!!!! Huffpo...the far left loon site? The video doesn't lie....they are selling baby parts

Yes, but the left would deny that even in the face of absolute proof. They say don't judge PP until all facts are in, yet when it comes to those who exposed PP for being a slimy, unscrupulous organization, they convict them in the media and don't need proof to run with allegations.

You hateful slimy anti-choice assholes would even condemn Jesus if he personally performed abortions.

 

[BlueGin]

Convict them in the Media.. Then try to get the IRS to silence them.

 

[whitehall]

You almost gotta laugh while watching the Frankenstein grave robbing left trying to deflect the focus of the horrific allegations to the tax exempt status of the investigating agency. One question is how the hell Media Matters keeps it's tax exempt status when it's mission statement is clearly biased "we monitor (only) conservative speech".

 

[emilynghiem]

Aw, it looks like NaziCons are ignoring this thread. Gee, I wonder why?

Because none of this solves any problems.
Or provides any solutions to preventing abortion and related issues. Next?

Aw, so you didn't post in the other thread that bashed Planned Parenthood??????

I'd rather publicize The Nurturing Network which does offer solutions with respect to both prochoice and prolife:
The Nurturing Network

 

[thereisnospoon]

The IRS thought it was some kind of biomedicine charity.

WASHINGTON -- The anti-abortion group that released an undercover "sting" video of a Planned Parenthood doctor this week appears to be a dummy nonprofit that may have deceived the Internal Revenue Service and the public about its mission.

The two-year-old Center for Medical Progress, which claims to be in the business of reporting on biomedical research, released undercover footage Tuesday of a Planned Parenthood doctor allegedly discussing the sale of fetal body parts after abortions. The video, which Planned Parenthood has denounced as misleading and heavily edited, was circulated widely and prompted House Republicans to launch an investigation into the family planning provider.

But as Slate reports, the Center for Medical Progress appears to be nothing more than a front organization for the anti-abortion group Live Action. That is not how the IRS understood it when considering the group's application for tax-exempt status, and not how the group originally presented itself to the public in soliciting donations.

If the Center for Medical Progress deliberately misled the IRS and donors about the nature of its nonprofit work, it could be subject to civil and criminal fraud penalties. IRS forms are signed under penalty of perjury, and a nonprofit misleading its donors about the nature of its work is "up there with all other kinds of fraud," according to Bruce Hopkins, an attorney who specializes in nonprofit law.

"The authorities have the right to shut down the charity, and the individuals behind the fraud can go to prison or pay a substantial fine," Hopkins said.

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards apologized in a video on Thursday for Nucatola's tone and statements in the video, but she maintained that the allegations about selling fetal body parts were "not true." Richards said that women seeking abortions sometimes choose to donate fetal tissue for scientific and medical research, and that Planned Parenthood follows "all laws and ethical guidelines" in doing so and makes no profit from the donations.

More: Group Behind Planned Parenthood Sting Video May Have Tricked IRS, Donors

The anti-choice zealots have no shame.

So?.....

 

[Lakhota]

The IRS thought it was some kind of biomedicine charity.

WASHINGTON -- The anti-abortion group that released an undercover "sting" video of a Planned Parenthood doctor this week appears to be a dummy nonprofit that may have deceived the Internal Revenue Service and the public about its mission.

The two-year-old Center for Medical Progress, which claims to be in the business of reporting on biomedical research, released undercover footage Tuesday of a Planned Parenthood doctor allegedly discussing the sale of fetal body parts after abortions. The video, which Planned Parenthood has denounced as misleading and heavily edited, was circulated widely and prompted House Republicans to launch an investigation into the family planning provider.

But as Slate reports, the Center for Medical Progress appears to be nothing more than a front organization for the anti-abortion group Live Action. That is not how the IRS understood it when considering the group's application for tax-exempt status, and not how the group originally presented itself to the public in soliciting donations.

If the Center for Medical Progress deliberately misled the IRS and donors about the nature of its nonprofit work, it could be subject to civil and criminal fraud penalties. IRS forms are signed under penalty of perjury, and a nonprofit misleading its donors about the nature of its work is "up there with all other kinds of fraud," according to Bruce Hopkins, an attorney who specializes in nonprofit law.

"The authorities have the right to shut down the charity, and the individuals behind the fraud can go to prison or pay a substantial fine," Hopkins said.

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards apologized in a video on Thursday for Nucatola's tone and statements in the video, but she maintained that the allegations about selling fetal body parts were "not true." Richards said that women seeking abortions sometimes choose to donate fetal tissue for scientific and medical research, and that Planned Parenthood follows "all laws and ethical guidelines" in doing so and makes no profit from the donations.

More: Group Behind Planned Parenthood Sting Video May Have Tricked IRS, Donors

The anti-choice zealots have no shame.

So?.....

Duh, ya gotta read it all, sparky.