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A truth the bears telling is that the dirty little secret in town is that it looks like Planned Parenthood covers up for child rape. Yes, you read that right. Here's the scoop.

Most of this you can read on the people who did the investigation at Child Predator, where you can read the report here. Here is what they did. They called up pretending to be a 13 year old. Said they were pregnant by an older man and wanted an abortion. For those of you that are slow, there is this thing called statutory rape, that pretty much anytime a 13 year old is pregnant, a crime has occurred, by definition. While there is precedent for immaculate conceptions I don't believe that has been successfully used as an affirmative defense. If you'd like to hear some tapes yourself, go here.

Further, there are federal criminal penalties for organizations to make money by destroying evidence of crimes. If a kid gets pregnant from her adult lover, the resultant child contains the DNA of both and near irrefutable evidence linking the man to the crime. For a low cost, you dirty old men out there can take your child lovers to Planned Parenthood to cover up your nefarious activities... To make matters worse, Planned Parenthood glorifies these kind of relationships. I don't know, maybe I'm old fashioned, but if I had a 13 year old daughter and she asks my opinion about 30 year olds asking her out, my answer would be to "just say no". If he can't get a woman his own age, he's got SOME kind of problem. This on the heels of several stories likethisof Planned Parenthood's long reknowned reputation of getting women killed who get abortions and trying to hide it and peddle other forms of junk science.

So I decided to get some more information to put some numbers to the stories...

Using a combination of public records of abortions on minors (age 12 to 15), Planned Parenthood's own research, and comparing the number of abuse reports made be medical professionals, the following is an estimate of the number of sex abuse cases per state that abortion providers covered up in the year 2000. (Not all states are represented because data was not complete for all 50):

State Number of child sex abuse cases unreported

Arizona 4054
California 25359
Florida 11364
Georgia 9240
Illinois 9792
Indiana 5961
Kansas 2958
Michigan 9432
Missouri 6888
New York 16106
North Carolina 7406
Ohio 10392
Pennsylvania 12989
Tennessee 5534
Texas 18077
Virginia 4911

For perpective, the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal entailed around 10,000 reports of sexual abuse covered up over the course of 50 years. This amount is roughly equal to the amount of sexual abuse cases covered up by Planned Parenthood in Ohio for only one year. Planned Parenthood's own research knows about the problem, as shown in Family Planning Perspectives July/August 1999 issue where it asserted data that mimics the results here (albeit with different conclusions. They know they are covering up child sex abuse because they make good money on it. If you are a dirty old man trolling for a girl friend in junior high, Planned Parenthood is your best friend.

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Updated 12/4/04 @ 2:50pm

Couple of quick updates, yes statutory rape ages very from state to state, your mileage will vary.

The cases of cover-up include not only abortion, but pregnancy treatment, STD Treatment, and other associated treatment that makes sexual activity obvious in that age group.

Sources Used:

2000 Census Bureau Data (# of people that age, percentage of sexual activity in that demographic, etc)
Family Planning Perspectives, April 1999 & Nov/Dec 2000
- "Facts in Brief - Teen Sex and Pregnancy"
"Age Differences Between Sexual Partners in the United States" - J. Darroch, D. Landy, and S. Oslak / Fammily Planning Perspectives, Jul/Aug 1999
USDOJ Report "Child Rape Victimes, 1992"
The National Women's Study quoted in CDC Rape Fact Sheet
"Sex and America's Teenagers" - Family Planning Perspectives, 1994
Article in Family Planning Perspectives by Patricia Donovan, Jan/Feb 1997
1997 Kaiser Family Foundation "Fact Sheet: Teenage Sexual and Reproductive Behavior in the United States"
CDC Abortion Surveillance reports
"Teenage Abortion and Pregnancy Statistics by State, 1996", Alan Guttmacher Institute
"Contraception Counts: State-by-State Information", Aug 1999, Alan Guttmacher Institute
FOIA requests to DHHS and the GAO
Planned Parenthood Annual Reports
Planned Parenthood Tax Returns
"Child Maltreatment 1999" - DHHS
"Age Differences Between Sexual Partners in the United States" Jul/Aug 1999, Family Planning Perspectives

Using all these sources, this study concluded that Planned Parenthood and like organizations fail to report cases of obvious child sex abuse (despite clear legal requirements to do so in many states) 84 to 88% of the time.

I would like to say that I have recently interviewed a staff member at planned parenthood, and the question of age requirement for services was brought up. I have not listened to the tape you made yet, but there is a difference between the older man being 17-18, than being 30. The staff member indicated that the children are often not comfortable talking to their own parents about these issues, and in mamy cases fear physical violence if they do tell them. I think you are leaving out the fact that many parents are not responsible for their own children and that it is easier to blame institutions such as PP, who provide confidential sertvices for children who have no other choice. I can't say that I would want my daughter to go to PP at age thirteen and have an abortion, but if she felt unsafe or uncomfortable bringing her issues to me, at least she has somewhere to go. This would be my fault as a parent, not PP's. I think we overlook parental responsibilty quite often, and are quick to blame institutions that try to fix problems that bad parents undoubtedly create. I think you have made a bad judgement on PP, and overlooked all of the good services that they do provide. Our current legislation does not allow for safe sex to be taught in schools, yet PP continues to do so. The real issue here is not the services that PP provides, but the fact that parents do not take adequate steps to prevent their OWN CHILDREN from engaging in sexual activities at an early age. I am so sick and tired of parents blaming everything their children do on public institutions. TAKE SOME RESPONSIBILTY FOR YOUR OWN CHILD!!!! Stop being so naive as to think that your child will wait until marriage to have sex, and talk to them, or they will end up at PP at the age of 13 having an abortion. Why should we blame PP because this young girl felt more comfortable going to them than to her own parents. We should point the finger at the parents who allowed their daughter to be in a situation where an older man could have sex with her, not the institution that in a sense gave her back her life.

RESPONSE:

Many parents aren't responsible for their kids, I will grant you that. That is an exception, not the rule. And that's also why we have courts and various other processes to deal with it. That, however, is an aside. Parents being responsible or not responsible has nothing to do with required notification.

We're dealing with 13 year old girls. They should not be having sex. They are not able to consent to it. The law is very clear. If a 13 year old comes in pregnant, ESPECIALLY when she says it is an older man, there is rape going on. The law is clear that it needs to be reported, and they not only do not report, but the enable the rapist.

What we do or do not teach kids in school (and safe sex is perfectly legal to teach in schools almost everywhere) is besides the point. I'm not suggesting PP parents kids, I'm suggesting that mandatory reporters under the law do their duty and report child abuse. Most underage sex abuse takes place by family members. PP enables that instead of getting DCFS involved. We have the law for a reason.

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