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Human
Events...
De-Fund the Predators
of Planned Parenthood
by Michelle Malkin
02/11/2011
Thanks to the persistent investigative work of young pro-life
journalists, Planned Parenthood’s ruthless, money-grubbing colors are
on full, fresh YouTube display. But as shocking as the illicit new
videos from Live Action Films are, the routine, parental
authority-sabotaging advice the taxpayer-funded abortion racket gives
teens every day deserves more front-page headline news, too.
Live Action is a California-based “new media, investigative and
educational organization committed to the protection and respect of all
human life” led by Internet undercover pioneer Lila Rose. The group’s
latest video footage at abortion clinics in Perth Amboy, N.J., the
Bronx and four cities in Virginia shows Planned Parenthood officials
aiding and abetting individuals posing as criminal sex traffickers
seeking abortions for underage girls.
Abortion activists first attacked the videos as “doctored,” then
claimed they had already taken steps to rectify problems at the
targeted clinics, then fired a worker after the tapes had been released
and finally denied any systemic failures while patting Planned
Parenthood on the back for ordering new re-training measures for their
employees this week.
Those who dismiss the scandal as an anomaly are in denial or abjectly
ignorant.
In 2007, while an undergrad at UCLA, Rose visited a local campus
Planned Parenthood clinic posing as a 14-year-old minor seeking an
abortion after being impregnated by a 23-year-old man. California’s
mandatory reporting laws require abortion providers to report statutory
rape involving girls under the age of 16. Rose secretly captured video
of her visit in which the staff advised her to “figure out a birth-date
that works,” to obtain the abortion and avoid getting the man in
trouble with the law. Instead of vowing to do more to protect girls
from predators, Planned Parenthood threatened to sue Rose to shut her
up.
That same year, a teenager came forward in Ohio to blow the whistle on
how a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Cincinnati had ignored her
cries for help after her father -- who had been molesting her for three
years from the age of 13 -- forced her to have an abortion. She told an
abortion staffer, who was required by state law to report suspected
abuse to police. But the women’s health provider so beloved by liberals
on Capitol Hill did nothing.
Another Ohio teenage victim of sexual abuse filed suit against Planned
Parenthood after the soccer coach who abused her at age 14 forced her
to undergo an abortion. “Although she used a junior-high school I.D.
and the coach, 21, paid with a credit card and driver’s license,” the
Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune reported, “Planned Parenthood failed to report
the abuse.”
Pro-choice radicals assert that butchers like Philadelphia Horror
abortion doc Kermit Gosnell -- charged along with his baby-killing
death squad last month with multiple counts of murder, infanticide,
conspiracy, abuse of corpse, theft and other offenses -- are an
exception and that young girls and women who choose Planned Parenthood
are “safe.”
Tell that to the Washington, D.C., family of 13-year-old Shantese
Butler, who was left permanently injured and infertile after a botched
Planned Parenthood abortion. Students for Life of America reported that
Shantese was left with “severe abdominal bleeding, severe vaginal
injury, severe injury to the cervix, significant uterine perforation
and a small bowel tear.” In addition, parts of the unborn child were
found inside Shantese’s abdomen.
And don’t forget the Nebraska Planned Parenthood clinic that refused to
disclose the terms of a settlement with another victim whose botched
abortion resulted in a perforated uterus, massive blood loss, an
emergency hysterectomy, permanent infertility, seizures and lifelong
pain and suffering. According to the suit obtained by Life News, the
woman told the abortionist and his assistants to stop, but was told:
“We can’t stop.” The Planned Parenthood employees held her down to
complete the procedure.
None of this is disclosed on Planned Parenthood’s informational website
aimed at teenage girls, of course. Instead, the group aggressively
advises pregnant girls under 18 on how to avoid telling their parents
about visiting their abortion clinics through a process known as
“judicial bypass.”
Through its “award-winning” website Teenwire, Planned Parenthood
ideologues normalize teen sexual activity, peddle their “family
planning” services, whitewash the physical and moral consequences of
abortion, downplay the long-term psychological consequences and
circumvent parental authority at every opportunity. What other
enterprise receives taxpayer support to entice children to hide their
health decisions from their own mothers and fathers?
Planned Parenthood is a $1-plus billion business that rakes in
one-third of its budget from government grants and contracts at both
the state and federal levels. Congress has interrogated banking,
energy, health insurance, tobacco and oil execs -- treating them like
serial killers before the cameras. When will they finally de-fund a
corrupt industry that has real blood on its hands?
Read it at Human Events
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