Anti-choice activist Lila Rose and her group Live Action have released an undercover video of an activist in New York City pretending to want to abort a fetus if it's not a male. This is part their effort to manufacture evidence that Planned Parenthood facilitates gender-based abortion -- even though statistics show that sex-selective abortion simply does not happen with any regularity in the United States, as the vast majority of abortions are performed before gender is detectable, and the gender birth ratio in America is close to even.

In the video, the activist tells an employee at a Planned Parenthood clinic that her fetus “looks like it's gonna be a girl, another girl,” and “we'd really like to have a son.” The employee gives the activist advice on prenatal care and testing, and she explains the services the clinic offers.

Despite Live Action's suggestion, at no point is the Planned Parenthood employee in the video shown encouraging the phony Live Action “patient” to undergo a sex-selective abortion -- in fact, the employee specifically states that “it's not up to us to decide what is a good or bad reason for somebody to decide to terminate a pregnancy.”

This is in line with Planned Parenthood's stated policy: “no Planned Parenthood clinic will deny a woman an abortion based on her reasons for wanting one, except in those states that explicitly prohibit sex-selective abortions (Arizona, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Illinois).”

Sex-selective abortion is not something that exists in real life in America to any notable degree. But you won't hear that from Lila Rose, who has declared it her mission to "take out Planned Parenthood." And don't expect to hear that from those in the right-wing media who uncritically hype Rose's hoax videos and dishonest activism, of whom Bill O'Reilly and Michelle Malkin are merely the latest.