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The New York TimesReacting to the release of videotapes in which its staff members advise an apparent sex trafficker, Planned Parenthood said Monday that it would retrain thousands of staff members across the country on its rules for reporting possible dangers to minors, and would automatically fire anyone who violated them.
All employees who have contact with the public will attend special training sessions, tailored to local laws, in coming weeks, said Stuart Schear, vice president for communications of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
“We’re doing this to reassure the public that we take these reporting requirements seriously,” Mr. Schear said.
With the announcement, Planned Parenthood hoped to blunt the public impact of what it called a misleading string of covertly taped videos being released by Live Action, an anti-abortion group. On the videotapes, Planned Parenthood employees are heard telling a man who says he runs a “sex business” how to get medical care and abortions for under-age prostitutes.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/us/08parenthood.html
Speaking of the NYT, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting has a
blog entry analyzing how that newspaper and the Washington Post approached the conservative covert videos stories (ACORN, PP).