Live Action exposes 10th case of child abuse cover-up at Planned Parenthood
UPDATE, 2/24, 10:27a: Milwaukee’s TMJ4.com had some interesting quotes when reporting this story. Contrary to Huyck’s contention, PP counselor Sonia expressed quite clearly she was willing to help the alleged 14-year-old cover up the rape by her 31-year-old boyfriend:
However, Planned Parenthood WI’s president and CEO [Teri Huyck] said the case could not be reported to police because Rose would not disclose her name or any identifying information when she went to the clinic….
A spokesman from the Milwaukee Co. DA’s office said investigators are looking at the case in conjunction with Milwaukee Police. “We need to gather more specific information about this matter before we can begin to assess whether it rises to the level of criminal conduct,” wrote Chief Deputy DA Kent Lovern in an e-mail….
Several other pro-choice groups, including the National Organization for Women, declined to comment on the controversy.
2/23, 2:43p: President Obama released his healthcare bill yesterday providing an astounding $11 billion to “Community Health Centers” like Planned Parenthood….
Today, LiveAction.org, led by undercover student journalist Lila Rose, released its 9th video showing the 10th Planned Parenthood clinic deliberately covering up child sex abuse.
The new undercover footage shows staff at the Milwaukee, WI, PP abortion mill located at 302 N. Jackson St. (ironically in the “Manly Building”) counseling a purportedly 14-year-old girl not to tell anyone about her 31-year-old boyfriend and coaching her how to obtain an abortion without her parents’ consent. If healthcare passes, PP will be getting billions of tax dollars to cover up child sex abuse cases like this….
Read LA’s press release here.
When will our elected representatives stop funding this organization showing a consistent pattern of underage rape cover-up? It is inconceivable that Obama would instead provide it with additional funding.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
There is no such thing as “consensual.” Legally, a 14-year-old does not have the legal capacity to consent to a credit card, a home loan, and many other things, including sexual intercourse. Sure, the problem seems less severe if it is a mutally agreeable boyfriend-girlfriend deal, rather than a rapist who jumped out of the bushes, but it is not legit either way.
Obama’s in bed with PP…until such time that he really cannot defend their actions/ policies anymore, then he’ll throw them under the bus, just like the rest.
He needs to pay the Piper…
This is a smear campaign by Lila Rose and her “organization”, plain and simple. There are hundreds if not thousands of PP clinics in the country and she’s “uncovered” all of 10 cases of “abuse”, so this means the entirety of the PP organization is guilty of wrongdoing? What’s more, it’s not at all clear if the “abuse” she’s “exposed” is illegal at all, considering the relevant state laws supposedly being violated require medical professionals to disclose any knowledge of “child abuse” they come across, not simple part-time secretaries taking phone calls. What are these poor women that Lila Rose continues to harass, none of whom have ever even performed or assisted in an actual abortion procedure, supposed to do? These low-level employees are being taken advantage of in a big way here by someone with a political agenda and a desire for attention. And what’s more, Lila Rose’s crusade to bring down PP, if successful (God forbid), would stop not only their abortion services, but the other family planning resources they provide, free of charge, to local communities, including birth control and even references to crisis pregnancy centers, among other things that no reasonable person, no matter how much they oppose abortion, could disagree with. You do your cause a disservice by linking it to opportunists like Lila Rose. Or maybe you believe that the end justifies the means and it’s acceptable for “LiveAction” to engage in dishonest practices in their quest to bring down a nonprofit organization that is a benefit to any community it services.
Miss E,
I guess you had better stay tuned for more of the same then. Do not fret, there are more videos.
Since I live in WI I am THRILLED that Lila Rose is uncovering how PP treats young girls. PP is not above the law!! I have something to say about the abortion industry that Obama wants to funnel billions into…time to DEFUND PP!!
Keep it up, Lila!! You are a hero to so many!
MissE, counselors are legally responsible for reporting child abuse just as medical professionals are. You can confirm that by asking any school employee. Has Live Action been able to investigate every Planned Parenthood? Of course not. But every time a video is released PP calls it an isolated incident and promises to change their policies, and every time things never change.
@MissE:
And what’s more, Lila Rose’s crusade to bring down PP, if successful (God forbid), would stop not only their abortion services, but the other family planning resources they provide, free of charge, to local communities, including birth control and even references to crisis pregnancy centers, among other things that no reasonable person, no matter how much they oppose abortion, could disagree with.
PP is very fond of claiming that abortions only make up 5-7% of their business. To which I would reply that if they quit doing abortions, they’d only loose 5-7% of their business, which any savvy business operator could make up easily. Everyone would be happy! Until they quit the abortions, though, they’re going to continue encountering resistance which will be cheered on by the pro-life movement. If a murderer who isn’t caught at first goes on to become a firefighter who saves lives every week, when they are caught, they still go to jail. People are not replaceable. When you kill someone, you can’t give back what you took by trying really hard.
The Catholic Church has perpetrated, and covered up, tens of thousands of cases of sexual abuse by priests, when does it lose its tax exempt status? If you’re so eager to defund Planned Parenthood over less than a dozen alleged cases of child abuse being covered up, then surely you must also want the Catholic Church to be stripped of its tax exempt status for doing the same thing on an enormously larger scale?
Kelsey: the people answering phones and arranging appointments at PP are not counselors, they are secretaries. They have no medical or psychological training whatsoever. And of course PP calls these isolated incidents: they are isolated incidents. You have a dozen alleged cases of “abuse cover-up” and hundreds of clinics operating daily in the country… you do the math.
Keli Hu: it doesn’t matter if abortion is 100% of their business… what bearing does that have on anything? The fact is that they do provide lots of critical reproductive services to women, free of charge or inexpensively. And do you know who wouldn’t be happy if PP stopped performing abortions? The women who rely on those services. A group you clearly aren’t concerned with.
Keli Hu:
@MissE:
People are not replaceable. When you kill someone, you can’t give back what you took by trying really hard.
First you said, “PP does stuff besides abortions, so you shouldn’t go after them.” Now you’re saying, “Abortion is okay, so you shouldn’t go after them.” The two claims are totally different, and the second is exactly the thing pro-lifers disagree with, which is the whole point of going after them in the first place. So obviously it has bearing on something, or else you wouldn’t have made statement the first.
None of which, by the way, justifies the deafening silence of Planned Parenthood on their apparently regular cover ups of child sex abuse. I’ve watched these videos. Pre-abortion counselors who don’t even blink at “I’m 13, he’s 31.” Doctors who say, “It’s not a baby.” This is not some rabble of secretaries being unfairly bamboozled. These are the people in those so-called clincs that are meant to be educated and impartial. And all of them are flat refusing to call the cops about statutory rape. That’s not fine.
Keli Hu is right. This particular video does not make it clear what the PP employee’s role is, but if you look at the other videos in the series, the people participating in the cover-up are clearly counselors.
First you said, “PP does stuff besides abortions, so you shouldn’t go after them.”
I didn’t say that. I never said anyone should or shouldn’t be “going after” anything. I observed that successfully getting PP shut down would prevent them from doing a lot of other positive things besides abortion.
Now you’re saying, “Abortion is okay, so you shouldn’t go after them.”
I didn’t say that either. My point is that abortion is legal and it doesn’t matter what percentage of PP’s business it makes up, because the supposed issue at hand here is PP illegally covering up abuse, not PP supposedly lying about their income from conducting abortions (which is something totally irrelevant that you pulled out of thin air and doesn’t in any way invalidate the fact that PP provides a large amount of free reproductive health services).
None of which, by the way, justifies the deafening silence of Planned Parenthood on their apparently regular cover ups of child sex abuse.
Regular? Hello? Less than a dozen alleged cases of abuse is regular?
The simple fact of the matter is that you and people like you have a bone to pick with PP regardless of whether any “abuse” is happening, and you’ll use anything or nothing to attack them with.
How do we know if the videos aren’t edited? I know that the goal of the anti-choice movement is to shut down Planned Parenthood. So then what happens? Will those women who seek abortions go to illegal abortion providers.? (Of course, if they die in the process, that’s one less pro-“abort” so it’s all good, right?) I don’t think that women, especially poor women who have no support systems, will happily give birth because Planned Parenthood isn’t availabe. And there’s always the possibility that another abortion clinic will open up in the space vacated by Planned Parenthood. It’s sad that poor women only have Planned Parenthood as a resource. Those with good health care plans can obtain their abortions at a hospital. Once again the verse of that old twenties song come to mind: “The rich get rich and the poor get babies, aint’ we got fun.”
Planned Parenthood has killed MILLIONS of human beings in the unborn stage. This is a horrific crime. What is it you don’t understand about that?
We should go after that horrible organization in any and every way possible and expose any and all crimes which they commit.
“How do we know if the videos aren’t edited? I know that the goal of the anti-choice movement is to shut down Planned Parenthood. So then what happens? Will those women who seek abortions go to illegal abortion providers.? (Of course, if they die in the process, that’s one less pro-“abort” so it’s all good, right?)”
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Oy vey.
First, the videos ARE edited to be under five minutes, so that more people will watch them. Live Action always posts the unedited version on its website, and shares it with authorities, within a few days of the original release.
Second, in spite of all pro-abortion lies to the contrary, giving legal protection to the right to life does not cause women to die. In fact, pro-life Ireland has the lowest maternal mortality rate in the world. The co-founder of NARAL admitted that the pre-Roe maternal death “statistics” were a complete fabrication. I’ll provide a link to more information, but since you’re a regular here, I’m sure it’s been explained to you before and you’d just rather not listen. That’s okay, maybe someone else will read it: http://secularprolife.org/files/abortion_by_the_numbers.pdf
” other family planning resources they provide, free of charge, to local communities, including birth control ” -Miss E
Do you honestly see no connection between giving away free contraception “family planning” and abortion?
@MissE:
“I didn’t say that. I never said anyone should or shouldn’t be “going after” anything.”
“And what’s more, Lila Rose’s crusade to bring down PP, if successful (God forbid), would stop not only their abortion services, but the other family planning resources they provide, free of charge, to local communities, including birth control and even references to crisis pregnancy centers, among other things that no reasonable person, no matter how much they oppose abortion, could disagree with.”
Posted by: MissE at February 23, 2010 4:02 PM
“I didn’t say that either. My point is that abortion is legal and it doesn’t matter what percentage of PP’s business it makes up…”
For this one, after rereading your comment, I’ll grant with qualifications. You didn’t say “abortion is okay, therefore don’t go after them.” You said, “It wouldn’t matter if all they did was abortion. But they do a bunch of other stuff, too…” which goes back to the first point I made. If PP dropped the abortion angle, supposedly not a big percentage of their business, pro-lifers would no longer care about them. They don’t, so we do.
@Artemis:
IIRC, you can email LiveAction and they will send you an unedited copy of their video. I believe instructions on doing this are on their website.
How do we know if the videos aren’t edited?
What if you discover the videos are unedited, Artemis? Weren’t you holding yourself out as an expert child welfare advocate on another thread? Child welfare encompasses minors at risk of abuse/neglect, not just those with substantiated allegations. Are you prepared to say that PP should be investigated if you find out the vid is unedited?
Go Lila! Expose Banned Parenthood for what it is! They LOVE to cover up sexual abuse because they know if the girl keeps getting pregnant, they’ll make MORE $.
PP gets WAY too much of taxpayers $. They need defunded NOW.
Artemis needs to take some “Lessons on ‘Reproductive Health’ from Europe” (Ian Gentles, National Post, published February 5).
Since the fall of Poland‘s communist regime, maternal mortality in that country has plunged by more than 75%…
Why has Poland made such strides in improving both maternal and infant health? Certainly not by spending a lot of money on “reproductive health services,” to use the preferred euphemism. Poland is a poor country, much poorer than either Canada or its immediate European neighbours. The money simply isn’t there for any lavish program to improve maternal and infant health. The only change that could have produced such a dramatic improvement is the documented decline in the induced abortion rate.
Since 1989, Poland has virtually banned induced abortion. According to official statistics, the annual legal abortion rate has plummeted from well over 100,000 in the 1980s to a few hundred in the 1990s, and that very low rate has been maintained up to the present. There is little evidence of a widespread resort to illegal abortion, nor have significant numbers of Polish women gone to other countries seeking abortions.
Interestingly, the only other European country where abortion is illegal — Ireland — also boasts very low maternal mortality. By comparison, countries where abortion is completely legal — the United States and Poland’s immediate neighbours, Russia and Hungary — have much higher maternal and infant death rates.
Artemis,
IT DOESN’T MATTER whether the 13 year olds think counselors and dr.’s are being ‘mean mommy’ I don’t give a sh*t honestly because these women are being taken advantage of. What would a 31 year old possibly have in common with a 13 year old, besides a sick one based on sexual manipulation?
ACORN has isolated incidents too; instead of letting it go they are restaffing the organization and not to mention have been slaughtered in the press and denied funding- why isn’t PP doing some major overhaul in this area? Why hasn’t the gov’t been taking major action?
Any teacher, school counselor, or health care worker in ANY OTHER FIELD would be seriously prosecuted if they failed to report suspected abuse, including statutory rape.
Again, saying ‘well the 13 year old wouldn’t feel like coming in’ I tell the 13 year old tough titties. They might facilitate the abortion (being legal, or whatever), but w/ the parents being notified as well as a social worker- that would be the honest and lawful way to approach such a situation. Simply writing it off is just criminal!
Artemis,
How exactly is your life better for having aborted your baby? What great contribution have you made to humanity, having denied us the joy of your progeny’s contributions in this and future generations? Have you not caught on that the child itself is contribution enough from you?
However, you chose otherwise. You also choose to come here and castigate pro-lifers for believing as we do. Therefore, I believe it fair enough to ask you to put your money where your mouth is and share with us what has been so positive about killing your own child, and how that has been a benefit to us all.
Not every public health clinic is an abortion clinic. Our country can either help provide health insurance for those who can not afford it, or are not offered it through their employer, or it needs to help fund more public clinics. I will never stop being amazed by the “Christian” attitude that so many of you seem to project, yet you have a constant refusal to help those truly in need. Do as I say, not as I do, I suppose, yeah?
you have a constant refusal to help those truly in need
Posted by: Kate at February 24, 2010 1:59 AM
Care to back up that statement with any facts? Are you privy to information about charitable contributions of money, goods, or services made by Obamacare opponents? Better yet, can you demonstrate that either the House or Senate version of the health care reform bills are free of special interest paybacks to groups like PP? Can you explain why legislation that politicizes public health funding is in the best interest of “those truly in need?”
You really believe that nonsense about our “refusal to help those truly in need”, Kate? Well then I invite you to stop by my blog and read about my weekly experience volunteering at the local soup kitchen, or my homeless care package project, or ask me about my mission trip to assist poor families in Clintwood, an impoverished minning town in the Appalacian Mountains, or ask me about my experience working the last 2 years in direct care at a residential facilitiy for individuals with developmental disabilities, with many clients in the care of department of child services.
Sorry about the multiple posts, my cellphone internet browser kept timing out and I wasn’t able to see if it posted.
Do as I say, not as I do, I suppose, yeah?
Posted by: Kate at February 24, 2010 1:59 AM
Kate, have you directed that sentiment to our legislators in Washington with the cushy health insurance plans? Did you know that the House bill (HR 3962, see page 26) gives a single political appointee (the Secretary of HHS) the power to “make such adjustments as are necessary to eliminate such deficit, including reducing benefits, increasing premiums or establishing waiting lists“ when revenues are less than expenses for people in the high risk pool? Ya think anyone “truly in need” might be affected by that? Perhaps the “do as I say not as I do” accusations are better aimed at Washington than prolife commenters on Jill’s blog.
Rachael C, God bless you for all you do :)
Wow, it’s pitiful seeing Artimis’s and Miss E’s lame attempts to defend what Planned Parenthood has been doing.
By the way, an earlier phone investigation by Life Dynamics found about 800 clinics of which 90 percent were offering very similar advice to women. Far from rare. These people are trained to protect sexual predators and to exploit young girls for profit.
(the tapes and transcripts are all available online)
Just saw a Rep. representative on TV who was at that “bipartisan healthcare meeting” with Obama. He said that all it was was a buy-off session to bribe republicans so they would vote for this bill. Any rep. who does vote for this bill should be kicked out of the GOP, since it’s an indication of the lengths they will go to in order to gain wealth and power at the cost of the people.
Kate,
Even if I have never lifted a finger to help anyone else please explain how abortion does not kill an unborn human child.
Lila Rose is my hero. There is absolutely no justification for hearing about child abuse and helping to cover it up. None. Anyone who tries to excuse Planned Parenthood’s behavior here is only hurting their cause.
Wow..I just can’t get over this comment:
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“The simple fact of the matter is that you and people like you have a bone to pick with PP regardless of whether any “abuse” is happening-MissE”
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Dang..PP and it’s basic business model IS based
on abuse (self-abuse, sexual-abuse, child-abuse, racial-abuse, women-abuse)….and these pro-aborts don’t even recognize that??
Man, talk about blinders being on…they take the cake.
We should put a stop on child abuse. We owe these kids something. Right?
MissE wrote:
The Catholic Church has perpetrated, and covered up, tens of thousands of cases of sexual abuse by priests, when does it lose its tax exempt status?
Good grief.
First of all, we’re talking about defunding Planned Parenthood… so unless you can show how the Federal Government is giving the Catholic Church hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize its work, you’ve gone off the beam, here. If the federal government removed congressional funding from the Catholic Church, the Church would lose $0.00. Not so, with Planned Parenthood…
Secondly, “The Catholic Church” didn’t “perpetrate” anything, any more than Public Schools “perpetrated” such abuse of minors (scroll down to the references); sinful/sick individuals who worked for those institutions did. (Are you suggesting that all public schools lose their funding and tax-exempt status? Just curious…)
“And do you know who wouldn’t be happy if PP stopped performing abortions? The women who rely on those services. A group you clearly aren’t concerned with.”
You mean, women like Carla? And Lifesong? Many of the commenters here who have had abortions very much wish that “service” hadn’t been available to them. Perhaps we care more about them than you–seeing as pro-lifers have started many ministries to extend healing to those who have already had abortion, but the “pro-choice” side doesn’t care what happens to those women after their choice… especially if they regret it. And the woman who feels pushed into abortion by finance or circumstances? Pro-choicers just want to make sure she can get that abortion she doesn’t want.
“And of course PP calls these isolated incidents: they are isolated incidents. You have a dozen alleged cases of “abuse cover-up” and hundreds of clinics operating daily in the country… you do the math.”
Which is why PP, like you, can point to countless police reports stemming from Lila Rose’s activities at other “clinics” that don’t cover up rape.
Are we really surprised by anything diabolical from this murder factory? Sad!