Planned Parenthood is claiming their site has been hacked. Some think not...
Planned Parenthood claims ‘extremists’ bring down website: critics say ‘PR stunt’
At the same time as
a fourth video exposing Planned Parenthood's practice of harvesting and selling aborted baby body parts was released Thursday morning, visitors who attempted to access Planned Parenthood's website were greeted with a message saying, "Our site is not available due to an attack by extremists."
The stylish page announcing the attack complained that "200,000 people a day are now being blocked from information and care by this attack," and directed visitors who wanted to find out more to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund's Facebook page.
At that Facebook page, the abortion giant states that the attack is a "new low" and asks for donations to help them "fight back."
However, some are raising questions about the purported attack, pointing out that a look under the hood shows that content from the site appears to be loading without a problem from Planned Parenthood's web server, while they have categorized the "site down" message as a "campaign."
At
The Federalist, Sean Davis points out that the "site down" message also directs users to another page at ppaction.org where they can write their "story" about where they "stand" on Planned Parenthood, in the process of which Planned Parenthood collects their personal information.
"That’s right," says Davis. "Even though ppaction.org redirects to a page saying the site was hacked, the domain still house (sic) a perfectly functional URL and page that are being actively used to help build Planned Parenthood’s fundraising list. Coincidentally, this 'hacking' happened just days after Planned Parenthood decided to hire a PR firm, SKDKnickerbocker, to help manage its response to the widening baby organ trafficking scandal."
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