Earlier this month Planned Parenthood issued its 13th annual "Choice on Earth" anti-Christmas cards, as I reported here.
Apparently, I overlooked a couple....


Actually, these are just suggestions for PP from The Curt Jester, but I like them, I really like them. See more at Curt's site.
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Comments:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8hiUFO0CT8o
You may find this interesting...
Posted by: Nathan Will Sheets at December 21, 2007 12:20 PMNathan,
That video was GREAT! Thanks.
Posted by: mk at December 21, 2007 12:47 PMOn some of those crosses the crossbar looks as long or longer than the post.
Posted by: Doug at December 21, 2007 1:11 PMI still can't get past the parent-and-child images from an organiation that's about preventing people from becoming parents, that looks on children as vermin to be exterminated rather than as blessings to be celebrated.
And I just noticed -- each card is ONE parent with ONE child. Not a family to be seen. What's with that?
Posted by: Christina at December 21, 2007 6:09 PM"And I just noticed -- each card is ONE parent with ONE child. Not a family to be seen. What's with that?"
LOL!!! Not very good planning huh?!
Posted by: rosie at December 21, 2007 7:28 PMThanks for the video Nathan.
thats Choice on earth for ya Doug.
I still can't get past the parent-and-child images from an organiation that's about preventing people from becoming parents, that looks on children as vermin to be exterminated rather than as blessings to be celebrated.
And I just noticed -- each card is ONE parent with ONE child. Not a family to be seen. What's with that?
Posted by: Christina at December 21, 2007 6:09 PM
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What do you have against planning parenthood? What do you have against single parenthood? Do you think that every pregnancy comes along with a daddy? Ask Elizabeth about that.
Posted by: Sally at December 22, 2007 1:39 AM"And I just noticed -- each card is ONE parent with ONE child. Not a family to be seen. What's with that?"
The shirt would look too busy if you included the mom, grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, ect...
Posted by: Jess at December 22, 2007 3:35 AMSally, Planned Parenthood, contrary to the name, isn't about planning parenthood. It's about AVOIDING parenthood. A friend of mine, back when she was still "prochoice", went to Planned Parenthood asking for advice on how to get into the best health for starting a family. "We don't do that," they told her. And, prochoice though she was, she felt betrayed by an organization that called itself Planned Parenthood but offered exactly zero services to somebody who was actually planning parenthood.
Look at their services. Abortion and contraception. Abortion and contraception. Abortion and contraception. Do you see a single thing for anybody who is actually planning to become a parent?
Posted by: Christina at December 22, 2007 5:45 AMLast time I checked, it took two people to reproduce. Even if you go to a sperm bank, somebody has to jack off into a paper cup for you.
Posted by: Christina at December 22, 2007 5:47 AMChristina,
Good point. In addition PP has also covered up the crimes of predators.
There is the case of Allen Gault, a 41 year old dog trainer from West Hartford, Connecticut who took a 15y/o girl to the local PP for an abortion. Most people would find this suspicious but apparently not the staff at PP.
Only later, no thanks to the clinic, was it discovered that this girl was a 15y/o runaway being held captive in a storage space under the stairway of a home Gault shared with 2 other "girlfriends". I have no idea how old they were. The runaway had been impregnanted by Gault.
How many young girls have been sent back to predators, and how many predators have had their crimes covered up and have been able to continue their predatory behavior thanks to the silence of PP and other abortion providers?
There is the case of Allen Gault, a 41 year old dog trainer from West Hartford, Connecticut who took a 15y/o girl to the local PP for an abortion.
If he'd taken her to church, would you condemn all churches?
Posted by: Doug at December 22, 2007 4:42 PMDoug,
Excuse me? She was brought to a PP clinic for an abortion, something I think few churches do.
He was an older man with a pregnant minor. Did anyone demand ID or proof that he was her parent or legal guardian? Did anyone at the very least have any suspicions and act on them?
The young woman could have been taken aside, offered protection and help and questioned. A social service agency could have been called upon to investigate. The police could have been called to investigate. You and I could do the same Doug for any situation we are suspicious of. Instead, a runaway being held captive was sent home with her captor, to be subjected to imprisonment and more sexual abuse and very possibly killed. Who knows what this animal was capable of?
Thankfully she was found and rescued, but it was not thanks to PP that she was.
Also, there is another case involving a 13y/o girl and her soccer coach. She only presented a school ID. Again, no questions asked. I understand the parents have filed a lawsuit against PP.
Sure, Mary, but impugning all of PP for the actions of a very few people is no different than blaming the church for the action of a relative few.
Posted by: Doug at December 22, 2007 5:56 PMI am pointing out examples where PP enabled sexual predators and how easily it can happen. I don't believe these cases were exceptions, they were just the ones we heard of. One can only speculate on how many times this has happened and no one was held accountable.
The sexual predator was off the hook, and free to prey on other young girls.
I know personally of a 15y/o girl taken to an abortion clinic by her stepfather, who had been sexually abusing her. Again, no questions asked and no action taken. The slime began molesting her again in the car on the way home.
Well good grief, you talk about "enabling sexual predators" - the (Catholic) church is there. Still doesn't mean the whole deal is without merit.
In the case of the 15 year old abused by her father, he should have gotten his due whether or not he took her anywhere.
Well good grief, you talk about "enabling sexual predators" - the (Catholic) church is there. Still doesn't mean the whole deal is without merit.
In the case of the 15 year old abused by her father, he should have gotten his due whether or not he took her anywhere.
Posted by: Bethany at December 22, 2007 9:55 PM
Doug,
At least the priests and the church had to answer for the crimes and are still shelling out restitution to victims. Can the same be said of PP?
If anything I'd say there is a difference between failing to prevent a thing or the reoccurrence of the thing and supporting the thing.
Posted by: Doug at December 22, 2007 10:46 PMDoug,
I in no way excuse the sexual abuse that occured where priests and the Catholic Church were concerned. I'm saying this was made public and restitution is still being paid to victims. The same cannot be said of PP.
Posted by: Anonymous at December 22, 2007 11:33 PMWell, I hear that, but with PP there is no organized "plan" to protect abusers.
If some people mess up, it can be really bad, yes, same as for most anything. The Catholic Church demonstrated an effort to conceal abuse, move abusive priests around rather than kick them out or expose them to prosecution, etc.
Not to pick on the RCC, specifically, but it's a good example. When such huge numbers of people are involved, there are always going to be some such cases.
In the 1960s or 1970s (I can't remember which) - within the Boy Scouts of America, there was one Scoutmaster being kicked out every two days because of child abuse.
Sounds horrendous but there were just so many people in the deal that it happened. Surprised me too, at first, but I guess that's the way it goes - and there I do think it's "for the worse."
Doug
Posted by: Doug at December 23, 2007 12:07 AMDid you read Bethany's posts Doug? No organized plan? Predators are being protected by PP, whether this is organized or not is irrelevant. Its happening. I don't see one situation as any more acceptable than the next.
Posted by: Mary at December 23, 2007 7:23 AMMary, "nothing is perfect." Generalizing from the particular is not proof about the whole.
If abuse is occurring and if laws are being broken there, then I'm all for stopping it, but that is no indictment of PP.
Posted by: Doug at December 23, 2007 11:38 AMDoug,
I didn't generalize. I have no way of knowing if a widespread cover up is going on or not. I only pointed out a couple of situations. It should be cause for concern though and at the very least investigated. There may be more incidents like this, there may not. Let's look into it and find out.
Posted by: Mary at December 23, 2007 12:09 PMMary, perhaps it's not a big deal, but where you said, Predators are being protected by PP I think you did indeed generalize.
Posted by: Doug at December 23, 2007 1:33 PMNo I made the statement and backed it up with two examples. Predators are being protected and perhaps an investigation is in order to determine to what extent this is happening.
Posted by: Mary at December 23, 2007 1:54 PMIf those two guys are still being protected by PP, then I would agree with you, Mary, but I don't think that's the case.
Posted by: Doug at December 23, 2007 4:16 PMNo they're not being protected, they've been caught. One is being sued, the other faces criminal charges. In neither case was PP to be thanked for their help or cooperation.
Their silence enabled these two lowlifes in the first place and I would think there are grounds for an investigation. I'm sure PP would only be too happy to cooperate and prove their innocence once and for all. In fact, I would think they would absolutely insist on it.
So we're right back to the comparison with the Catholic Church.
Posted by: Doug at December 23, 2007 8:42 PMDoug,
What comparison? The RCC has been investigated, raked over the coals, priests have been tossed, and restitution has and is being paid to victims. I have no problem with this.
If PP is so innocent, I would think they would want and even insist on an investigation to clear their name once and for all and to weed out people who are negligent when it comes to child predators.
Mary, just that the RCC did stonewall a lot. I don't mean to take shots at the church - it does seem to have died down there, but the idea is the same - painting the whole organization with the same brush when it's really just a case of a relatively few individuals, a very, very few in PP's case.
Posted by: Doug at December 24, 2007 10:24 AMIt was NOT a relatively few in PP's case. Did you listen to the phone calls that Life Dynamics made - eight hundred of them- and the trained answers that came back virtually every single time?
"Oh you're 12 and your boyfriend is 21? No, we surely won't tell anyone."
It doesn't seem like a "relative few" who are actively protecting rapists. Go to www.childpredators.com for the actual calls..you can listen for yourself.
Also, check out this testimony of a girl who posted a message at the Planned Parenthood website-you can still find it in the web archives:
http://web.archive.org/web/20041022181955/http://www.ppgg.org/action/stories.asp?ID=15
I'm going to go ahead and cut and paste it here:
It Keeps Us Safe
I was raped at 11, by my 17 year old boyfriend. I chose not to tell my parents because I didn't think their involvement would help, that was the right choice for me. Planned Parethood helped me deal with the aftermath of the rape allowing me to deal and cope as best as I could in my own way. I was 14 when I decided to start having sex, the day I made that choice I made an appointment to get birth control pills. I'm 17 now, I've been with my current boyfriend for about two years. During that time i've been HIV and STD tested four times. Right now I'm sitting in the waiting room while my boyfriend gets the results for his HIV test. We love each other so we're responsible and Planned Parenthood helps us to do that.
- name withheld -
This one is long, but very interesting:
From :http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27687
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WND Exclusive Planned Parenthood
concealing crimes?
Investigation says sex by men with underage girls 'epidemic'
Posted: May 21, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Jon Dougherty
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
A pro-life research organization says data collected as a result of an ongoing investigation into teen pregnancy show that the number of underage girls being "sexually exploited" by adult men has reached "epidemic" proportions in the U.S. and that Planned Parenthood facilities are knowingly concealing such sex-abuse crimes.
The firm, Life Dynamics, Inc., based in Denton, Texas, said in an eight-page summary of its data that "among girls 15 and younger who become pregnant, between 60 percent and 80 percent of them are impregnated by adult men." Some girls are even as young as 10 years old, said the summary.
"In America today, we have reached the point where a junior high-school girl is more likely to become pregnant by an adult than by someone close to her own age," said the summary. "One study concluded that the average age of men who father children with girls under 14 is now higher than the average age of men who father children with 18-year-olds."
Life Dynamics researchers say they also found "irrefutable evidence" that pro-abortion-rights organizations such as Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation "knowingly conceal" the crimes of sexual abuse of minors "while aiding and abetting the sexual predators who commit them."
While the initial summary "reveals only a fraction of the evidence we have uncovered so far," researchers said, "what we can already reveal is that our country is experiencing an epidemic of child sexual abuse."
In its summary, analysts described how one researcher portrayed a 13-year-old girl made pregnant by a 22-year-old boyfriend. The teen-girl imposter telephoned over 800 Planned Parenthood and NAF facilities across the country.
"Her story was that she wanted an abortion because she and her boyfriend did not want her parents to find out about the sexual relationship," the summary stated.
In every instance, the group said, the ages of the girl and her boyfriend "were made perfectly clear" to clinic workers. "It was also made clear," said the summary, "that the motivation for the abortion was to conceal this illicit sexual activity from the girl's parents and the authorities."
Among the findings:
* Many clinic workers openly acknowledged that the aforementioned situation was illegal and that they were required to report it, but an "overwhelming majority readily agreed" to keep secret the illegal sexual contact;
* Some employees coached the caller on ways to avoid detection, how to circumvent parental involvement laws and what to say or not say when she visited the clinic;
* In a "significant" number of cases, the Life Dynamics caller was encouraged to lie about her age, or conceal her age and her boyfriend's age, or to give a false name;
* One clinic official told the caller she was required by state law to inform a parent of the abortion, but went on to advise the caller to simply use a fictitious address when checking in;
* In many instances, abortion clinic employees advised the caller that if "someone were to find out about this situation," the boyfriend could go to jail, leading Life Dynamics researchers to conclude that "in those situations, it was unmistakable that our caller was being instructed to be more careful about what information she gave out and to whom";
* Researchers said it was "not uncommon" for clinic employees to interrupt the caller "when she started talking about her age or the age of her boyfriend";
* In other cases, clinic employees would advise the caller she had already provided too much information for them to help her, but would give her "the number of another family planning facility" and encourage her "to tell a different story when she called," advice which, at times, "was quite specific. …";
* In states with parental involvement laws in place and in which only a judge could give permission to have the abortion without parental involvement, the caller "was often … instructed not to voluntarily tell the judge about the age of her boyfriend. …" In similar instances, the caller was even encouraged to lie to a judge about the age of her boyfriend;
* Other clinics in states with parental involvement laws advised the caller to seek her abortion in a neighboring state with no such legislation in place. "In other words," the report stated, "these people were suggesting to a minor girl that she travel outside the state in order to cover up a crime that was being committed against her. …";
* In other cases, the caller was advised on how to circumvent the parental involvement requirement altogether, by having her bring along someone older and who looked like he could be a parent so he could sign for her instead;
* In a number of cases, the report said, "the [clinic] employee would not react at all to the age issue," causing researchers to "question whether it had registered with them or not";
* One clinic worker told the caller "if she came in with the cash, she could be any age she wanted to be"; and
* In many cases, clinic workers said the caller could come to the clinic with her adult boyfriend to pick up birth control, meaning that "even though [clinics] had evidence that a sexual crime was being committed against a 13-year-old child, they were not only willing to conspire with the perpetrator to cover it up, but they offered to provide him the means by which he could continue the abuse."
"In the final analysis," said the summary report, "virtually every Planned Parenthood and NAF facility we contacted was willing to illegally conceal the sexual abuse of this 13-year-old girl. In every case, the clinic representative had never met this child, knew virtually nothing about her, had only engaged in a very brief telephone conversation with her, and was told nothing to indicate that her parents would be abusive if they discovered the sexual relationship.
"Nevertheless, they were willing – and in many cases, eager – to help this child hide from her parents and the authorities the fact that she was being sexually exploited," said the summary. "To that end, they provided step-by-step instructions on how to circumvent state laws that were enacted specifically for the purpose of protecting children exactly like her in situations just like this."
When contacted by WND, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood said she was late for an afternoon meeting and would return calls seeking comment, but failed to do so. A spokeswoman for NAF said she did not want to comment until she'd seen the Life Dynamics report.
Mark Crutcher, president of Life Dynamics, said the evidence gathered thus far means the possibilities for future legal litigation "are nothing less than staggering." And he says the problem has occurred in the first place because, he believes, the nation is "sex-obsessed."
"We are all aware of the firestorm currently swirling around the Catholic Church regarding the issue of pedophile priests," Crutcher said. But "if you look at the lawsuits" surrounding the cases, he continued, "the dioceses are not being sued because their priests molested children. They are being sued for negligence because they allegedly knew about the sexual abuse of the children and failed to report it to the authorities.
"Obviously, any organization or any individual that harbors pedophiles and conceals the sexual abuse of children deserves to be prosecuted," he added. "But that's not what's happening. Instead, [some of these groups] are being given hundreds of millions in tax dollars while doing exactly the same things for which huge awards are being levied against the Catholic dioceses."
Crutcher said concealing abortions from parents or failing to report underage pregnancies to authorities is bad enough, but he said providing teen girls with birth control so they can continue sexual relations with adult males could be viewed "as participating in an ongoing or future crime."
The issue, he says, changes from one of failure to report child sexual abuse or statutory rape, to "actual complicity in child sexual abuse or statutory rape."
"That could be viewed as a felony rather than a misdemeanor," he said.
Life Dynamics said it has established a new website – called ChildPredators.com – to "educate children and parents who may have been victimized by these organizations about their litigation opportunities."
Also, Crutcher said the group plans to take its message to the nation's 16,000-plus school districts, many of which allow Planned Parenthood and others on campus to teach sex education or provide counseling to students.
Posted by: Bethany at December 24, 2007 10:51 AMAnother long but good one:
From CWFA
http://www.cwalac.org/article_514.shtml:
Behind Closed Doors: Planned Parenthood’s Cover-ups and Lies
LaToya Cain
June 15, 2007
Going beyond the favorable image evoked by its deceptive name and into the confines of Planned Parenthood facilities reveals the many cover-ups and lies that characterize the operation to kill babies by whatever means necessary in American abortion clinics. Recently, Planned Parenthood chose to protect and put first the rights of statutory rapists, instead of upholding and looking out for the interests of their victims.
In a recent undercover investigative story, UCLA student Lila Rose posed as a fifteen-year-old pregnant girl to prepare a story for a pro-life student newspaper at UCLA. At the Santa Monica Planned Parenthood office, Lila told the abortion facility staff that a 23-year-old man impregnated her. During her visit, nurse practitioner and UCLA Health Center counselor Ann Brooks advised Rose to lie and claim that she was 16 years of age so that Planned Parenthood would not have to report the rape to authorities. Withholding such information is a crime under California law. In addition, H.R. 2673, signed into law by President Bush, states:
SEC. 212. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no provider of services under title X of the Public Health Service Act shall be exempt from any State law requiring notification or the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape or incest.
Planned Parenthood staff also told Lila that UCLA does not have the resources to support students who want to keep their babies. Lila was instead encouraged by Nurse Brooks to use Medi-Cal, which is funded by California taxpayers, to fund her abortion. Lila made a video recording of the visit, which was available for viewing on YouTube until threats of a lawsuit by Planned Parenthood surfaced.
Another disturbing incident of Planned Parenthood covering up a rape is the case of the five-year sexual abuse of an Ohio girl that began when she was 13 and continued until she was 18. Routinely raped by her father, the young girl in this case became pregnant and was forced to have an abortion at the age of 16. At the Planned Parenthood facility in Cincinnati, Ohio, the girl reported the abuse to the staff, but the staff did not report her case to law enforcement officials. It was not until the girl told a school counselor of the abuse that authorities became aware and then intervened.
Another incident of statutory rape occurred in late 2004. A 14-year-old girl, sexually abused by her 21-year-old soccer coach, was taken by her abuser to Planned Parenthood for an abortion. Despite the fact that the girl’s junior-high school I.D. was shown to staff members, and even though the coach paid with a credit card and showed his driver’s license, Planned Parenthood failed to report the incident to authorities.
“Planned Parenthood appears to flout the law and help statutory rapists cover up their crime and then has the gall to claim to be ‘protecting’ the right to privacy,” said Wendy Wright, President of Concerned Women for America (CWA). “Clearly it’s not the girls they are concerned about but fear of exposure of their own misdeeds. Once again Planned Parenthood promotes ‘abortion rights’ to mean the rights of the abortionist, not the patient.”
Recent exposure of Planned Parenthood’s lies and cover-ups helps shatter the myth of Planned Parenthood as a respectable organization. It’s a deception that has prevailed since its founding. The racist intentions of Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood’s founder, were also covered up by the same emotional rhetoric used today — “better health” and “family planning.”
As the cases above show, Planned Parenthood is more than willing to go the extra mile in killing innocent babies. With the help of past civil rights victories, the only difference in the motive of Planned Parenthood from past to present is the fact that the primary underlying motive has switched from extreme racism to money. Yes, the evil that is behind the horrendous life-taking procedure of abortion will take many forms, and it is no wonder that from “behind closed doors” the truth will come to light. As Ephesians 5:13 states, “But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.”
Oh and here is the video of Lila Rose's undercover investigation of PP, which Jill posted about a few months ago and is mentioned in the above article:
Posted by: Bethany at December 24, 2007 10:54 AMAn example of one of the over 800 calls made to Planned Parenthoods across the nation - virtually all of them were exactly the same- almost as though the people speaking were trained to answer this way. The girl never made any implication that her parents might be abusive if they found out she was pregnant, and did NOT lead them to say anything out of the ordinary, by any means.
" Planned Parenthood: "You just gave me more information than what I needed, OK."
Girl: "Oh."
Planned Parenthood: "Which was not a good thing, OK. The fact that your boyfriend is 22 and the fact you're 14, that makes us mandated, we're mandated reporters. That means we have to report that."
Girl: "So if you didn't know, it would be OK?"
Planned Parenthood: "It's not that it's OK, it's just what we don't know, we don't know."
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Another example call:
"Girl: "I’m going to be 14 later this month, and my friend told me that you guys would have to tell my parents. But my boyfriend’s 22. Is he old enough to take care of it, and you wouldn’t have to tell anybody?
Planned Parenthood worker: We won’t tell your parents.
Girl: Okay. But would you tell anybody besides my parents?
Planned Parenthood worker: Huh? Nope. It’s confidential. You can come in, and you don’t need a parent’s permission.
Girl: Oh, okay. My boyfriend said that he would pay for everything. Would that be all right? It’s just we don’t want a whole bunch of people to know about us. Would he have to sign anything?
Planned Parenthood worker: Yeah, but just don’t talk about his age."
Remember- these are NOT relatively few calls, but virtually EVERY SINGLE call from over 800 Planned Parenthood clinics. I feel the need to emphasize this point again and again, so that you understand.
Go to Childpredators.com to listen to more of the phone calls, and see for yourself.
Also, you can go here and see which exact Planned Parenthood clinics were being called (some of them anyway- about 100 of them area listed) and their transcripts and audio can be heard by clicking the links within the boxes.
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/1/pph/index2.php
Another article, from http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200506030803.asp:
June 03, 2005, 8:03 a.m.
Planned Parenthood Perversity
A cautionary tale of abortion-rights extremism.
Can you say “perverse”? Planned Parenthood in Indiana and Kansas is effectively fighting to protect child rapists from potential prosecution in two high-profile legal fights. That an organization devoted to the interests of women finds itself in this position is a cautionary tale of abortion-rights extremism.
In Indiana, the attorney general is seeking the records of girls under the age of 14 who have visited Planned Parenthood clinics. Let that sink in: We’re talking about 12- and 13-year- old girls. It is a crime to have sex with a child under 14 in the state. Under law, individuals with reason to believe a child is a victim of sex abuse are required to report it to the proper authorities. In Kansas, the attorney general is carrying on the same fight (he is also looking for evidence of illegal late-term abortions).
An Indiana judge has just upheld the Indiana attorney general’s request, although the case is under appeal. “The great public interest,” the county superior judge wrote, “in the reporting, investigation and prosecution of child abuse trumps even the patient’s interest in privileged communication with her physician because, in the end, both the patient and the state are benefited by the disclosure.”
The loopiest free-sex advocates might imagine that after sex-ed courses on how to put a condom on a banana, 13-year-old girls blissfully explore their bodies with 13-year-old boys. Put aside that this vision will make most parents gag — it’s not how it works. Teen sex often involves adult men exploiting teen girls. Estimates are that in 60 percent or more of teen births, the father is an adult. A California study found that the fathers in births to junior-high-school mothers were on average nearly 7 years older.
Why would a feminist organization not be eager to cooperate in a fight against the sexual exploitation of young girls? Well, Planned Parenthood represents that wing of the feminist billed as “sex positive.” Although that phrase doesn’t quite capture it. Planned Parenthood is developing the “statutory rape-positive” wing of feminism.
These feminists are unwilling to pass judgment on any sex in any circumstances, don’t care if parents are cut out of the equation entirely, believe the right to an abortion trumps any other consideration, and embrace a notion of privacy so sweeping it includes men who have, under law, raped their young sexual partners. If only Michael Jackson were interested in girls instead of boys, he might, in the right circumstances, have a friend in Planned Parenthood.
Privacy is a mere excuse not to provide the records. It is not at all unusual for criminal prosecutions to involve medical records. And no one is going to make public the names of the girls involved, which are being provided to the authorities, not the news media. “We’ve been doing these investigations since the 1970s, and there’s never been a case where we have not maintained the confidentiality of records,” Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter told a local columnist. In Kansas — where the case is pending before the state supreme court — Attorney General Phill Kline authored the state’s rape shield law when he was in the legislature. It is not the girl in any of these cases who will be in jeopardy, but her adult abuser (if there is one).
This fight is so important because our culture relentlessly sexualizes children. The message, for instance, of Britney Spears’s act before she came of age was “teen girls are hot.” Pop culture won’t change, but the law can at least try to send an opposite signal.
Key Democrats from Hillary Clinton to Howard Dean have of late said their party needs to become more moderate on abortion. They could add substance to the rhetoric by opposing Planned Parenthood’s position in these cases. Of course, that will never happen. The abortion absolutists control the Democratic party, a sad fact for those Americans who have moral qualms about abortion, but a happy one for men who impregnate 13-year-olds.
Posted by: Bethany at December 24, 2007 1:09 PMIn a nutshell- Child predators have a good friend in Planned Parenthood.
Found some more information of interest from the Planned Parenthood taped investigation:
http://www.grtl.org/plannedparenthood.asp
"An employee at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Okolona, Kentucky, when asked if the clinic would report the 22-year old boyfriend, replied, “Well, I’ll be honest with you. By law because you are thirteen years old, we should. Now, we’ve never reported anybody. OK?”
One Planned Parenthood clinic worker suggested the caller could have the boyfriend keep “a year’s worth” of Planned Parenthood-supplied birth control pills in his possession (thereby ensuring that the sexual abuse could continue in secret.) "
So what do you tell a 14 year old on the phone? "Come in and be sure to bring your boyfriend with you. We'll have the cops arrest him just as soon as you get here,"?
Posted by: TexasRed at December 24, 2007 2:02 PMTR,
No, you tell her to come in, if possible bring her boyfriend, find out who he is and the circumstances and then notify the police, as required by state law.
Posted by: Mary at December 24, 2007 2:32 PMTR,
No, you tell her to come in, if possible bring her boyfriend, find out who he is and the circumstances and then notify the police, as required by state law.
Posted by: Mary at December 24, 2007 2:32 PM
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You show that the antichoice position is a lot more about trying to punish people than trying to help anyone
So what's the problem with punishing rapists, TR?
TR,
Its about protecting minor girls from predators, and yes punishing the predators, who will not limit their predatory behavior to just one girl. How are minor girls helped when they are sent home to be preyed upon again? Do you have a problem with punishing sexual predators TR?
Posted by: Mary at December 24, 2007 4:16 PM
