People really are watching too much TV these days.

Planned Parenthood clinics in 11 states have reported more than two dozen fake visits in the past couple weeks. Chloe Cooney, spokeswoman with Planned Parenthood, described in an interview in the Huffington Post that “a woman walks into a clinic, claims to be pregnant and asks a particular pattern of provocative questions about sex-selective abortions, such as how soon she can find out the gender of the fetus, by what means and whether she can schedule an abortion if she’s having a girl.”

Tactics involving questions like the ones above are part of something some anti-Planned Parenthood groups have done before, including disinformation groups such as Live Action. The groups hire actors to secretly videotape the answers then re-cut the recording to make the answers appear to support gender-based or race-based abortions and other nefarious activities.

Maybe they should go ahead and start a new “Punk’d” show, but only punk women looking for medical assistance. I can imagine the look on some poor, unsuspecting girl’s face when the program has actors pose as nurses. They could offer to show the girl an ultrasound of her unborn child, and instead of just the creepy little fetus thing, it is an even creepier image of a fetus that turns its head and suddenly says, “Don’t kill me, I am alive.” Maybe it could have an anti-Obama button too; I don’t really know how far some of these tinfoil hatters would go.

National Right to Life president Carol Tobias is one woman working to keep the madness going. In a recent article in National Right to Life News, she said, “In 2010, more than nine out of 10 PPFA’s services going specifically to pregnant women were abortion. Roughly half of those abortions are performed on unborn girls. That’s the real war on women.”

Did it take an army of pro-lifers working around the clock to decide to say half of abortions are on girls, so clearly that is a war on women? That means there is a war on men by their logic, as the other half of abortions are performed on unborn boys.

Great Scott, this means there is a war against men and women going on because there are abortions, and abortions mean war? Isn’t a war on men and women a better headline?

Wait, no, there is no war. Much like in a “Scooby Doo” episode when the monster is unmasked to reveal a crotchety old person, there is no war on women being waged by Democrats or Republicans; Tobias is just trying to rally more to her flock, trying to get them riled up through “clever” words.

As to the nine of 10 services going specifically to pregnant women being abortions, come on; this is even more word misdirection.

There are a limited number of services you can offer to “specifically pregnant women;” one of them is abortion. Many hospitals don’t offer abortion services, which is maybe why nine out of 10 times the pregnant woman is at a clinic. I’m kind of curious what those nine out of 10 numbers add up to. I’m guessing that because those numbers aren’t offered, it seems a lot less impressive than the empty understanding of nine out of 10.

If you believe life begins when a sperm hits an egg and a zygote is formed, fine, you can believe that. If you want to believe life doesn’t begin until later, that is fine, too. But when you have to resort to hiring actors to try and set up clinics providing health services for free, maybe you should stop and ask a few questions, such as: “If these places are so evil, why do we have to try to falsify evidence in order to show the evil to others?”

Joking aside, Planned Parenthood provides a legal service. Maybe the government should be funding it, maybe it shouldn’t; that will hopefully be debated further by elected officials whose job it is to make those decisions.

So if you honestly think abortion should be illegal, go protest in a big group similar to the Occupy movement. It received plenty of media coverage and support from uninformed people that barely understand what they are protesting. Maybe you can too.