May 5, 2006

May 5, 2006—The Pro-Life Action League’s youth outreach division, Generations for Life (GFL), issues a press release demanding that Planned Parenthood come clean about false claims made in a fundraising e-mail. GFL Director John Jansen fact checked the so-called “evil CPC” e-mail, which described an implausible campaign of harassment waged by a pro-life pregnancy center against a 17-year-old girl seeking an abortion. Jansen’s findings—including a complete lack of any police reports, despite the claim that the center convinced the police to descend on Planned Parenthood on the day of the girl’s abortion—show the scenario not only implausible but completely impossible. Planned Parenthood does not respond.