Carly Fiorina Refuses To Back Down On Lying About What She Saw In Planned Parenthood Video

It’s time for Carly Fiorina to apologize to Planned Parenthood Michael Hiltzik @ LA Times

This is a pure fabrication. Fiorina is referring to the surreptitious videotapes distributed by the inaptly named anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress. The tapes have been conclusively discredited as heavily edited misrepresentations, but not even the “full” versions (though also somewhat edited, according to a Planned Parenthood analysis) show the scene Fiorina describes. Sarah Kliff at Vox, who has viewed every tape in full, provides a helpful guide to finding the scenes shot inside Planned Parenthood clinical laboratories.

It’s possible that Fiorina is referring to one of another set of videotapes from Center for Medical Progress that include the shot of a moving fetus; the problem there is that this isn’t Center for Medical Progress footage—it’s credited to the Grantham Collection and the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, two other anti-abortion groups— there’s no claim on the tape that it came from a Planned Parenthood facility, and no verification that it’s the product of an induced abortion. No one is saying, “We have to keep it alive so we can harvest its brain.”