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UPDATE: YouTube dumps American Life League video in favor of Planned Parenthood Posted on February 13, 2008, 9:14 AM | Brian Saint-Paul |
Video hosting powerhouse YouTube has tipped its hand in the abortion debate:
On Monday morning, American Life League (ALL) was informed by YouTube that one of its exposé videos on Planned Parenthood was evicted from their site for its "inappropriate nature." Strangely enough, the ad that the ALL was criticizing remains on YouTube.
The banned report explains how a Planned Parenthood commercial helps encourage recreational sex, which ALL's Michael Hichborn told CNA, "helps their bottom line."
"All we did in our video report was show a couple of clips from Planned Parenthood's 'Mile High' ad and illustrate how it was nothing more than a part of Planned Parenthood's effort to encourage recreational sex," said Jim Sedlak, vice president of American Life League. "If there was anything inappropriate in our report, it came from Planned Parenthood's ad, and yet their ad remains while ours is removed."
Let's be honest -- there are times when pro-lifers cry bias! where there is none. This is not one of those times. There's nothing in the ALL video (nor in YouTube's posting rules) that would justify its removal.
But you can see for yourself. Here's the ALL video. And, if you're interested, here are the two criticized Planned Parenthood commercials (1 , 2 ).
[Hat tip: Wayne S.]
UPDATE: I'm not entirely sure what this means, but I just found the "deleted" ALL video right there on YouTube. And according to the upload information, it has been there without interruption since January 10. Maybe the video was removed from a different account, but from what I can see, it's still very much on YouTube:







