Detroit – A “ sting” videos in which a Planned Parenthood office manager advises a young man and woman posing as a pimp and prostitute on how to run their purported underage sex enterprise could boost opposition to an abortion “megamill” planned for Auburn Hills.

That is the view of Monica Migliorino Miller, president of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, which has been campaigning against the proposed Planned Parenthood clinic at 1625 N. Opdyke Road since early December.

“We sent a link (to the video) to the mayor, every city department head and all the city council members to let them know this is what they’re dealing with,” Miller said Monday.

The group was already conducting a petition drive opposing the clinic before the video hit the Internet, with somewhere between 5,000 and 6,000 signatures gathered so far, she said. The drive continues through Feb. 21 (go to www.prolifesociety.com).

The video sting conducted by the group Live Action at the Planned Parenthood of Central New Jersey clinic in Perth Amboy shows the clinic’s office manager — who has since been fired — urging the “pimp” and “prostitute” not to reveal the age of a “sex worker” if she is 14 or under, because even a clinic employee might well comply with the state law requiring it be reported as a case of statutory rape and child abuse (watch it at www.liveaction.org).

She tells them 15 and over is OK, but gives them the name and address of another abortion provider who would take care of any who were 14 or younger without any fuss.

A Planned Parenthood spokesperson first objected to the video as having been heavily edited, but Live Action immediately released the full, unedited footage.

It was then objected that the events in the video were an isolated incident, after which Live Action released three more videos showing Planned Parenthood staffers at three different locations videos giving answers similar to some in the New Jersey video.

Another result of the series of sting videos could be the end of taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood.

A portion of the $350 million in federal support for Planned Parenthood nationwide last year was funneled through Michigan’s government to the organization’s local operation, said Ed Rivet, legislative director for Right to Life of Michigan.

At its height during the Granholm administration, about $5 million went to Planned Parenthood in Michigan, said Rivet, but he added that the figure has probably since fallen to something like $3.5 million. None of those funds are supposed to be for abortions, but rather for education or family planning.

Just how much is federal money and how much state funds “mixed in,” Rivet did not know.

“There had already been some discussion by members of the Legislature about redirecting money away from Planned Parenthood, and that has increased since the (New Jersey) video came out last week,” he said.

The sting videos also have prompted a move in Congress to defund Planned Parenthood.

“To say it is an outrage is an understatement,” said Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., during a Feb. 3 Webcast co-hosted by Family Research Council Action and Live Action. “The time has come to deny any and all federal funding to Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in America and also the largest recipient of federal funds (for family planning).”

Barb Listing, president of Right to Life of Michigan, said, “I think, finally, the public is seeing some of the things we have known have been going on some time with Planned Parenthood.

“Unfortunately, they have done a great job of public relations, and have sold themselves as an organization that cares about children and about women. But we know how it really does seem to be part of Planned Parenthood’s culture to try to undermine parents,” Listing continued.

“I think if most adults were to go to Planned Parenthood’s website for young adults, www.teenwire.org, they’d be outraged – it’s almost pornographic,” she added.

— Nancy Frazier O’Brien of Catholic News Service contributed to this story