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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.

You can read the report here: http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/Documents/20041201102153-50247.pdf

Or the news article here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26623-2004Dec1.html

(FYI, linked by Drudge in Red despite the fact he supposedly only writes conservative things)

I can't quite evaluate many of the claims because the course material is not available, but let's deal with a few things that I can.

First, I'm sure the liberal pundits are going crazy saying "A Ha! This is why abstinence education won't work!". The study points out 2 of the 13 tentative courses are accurate. That's right, tentative. The report itself says these are the prospective programs that the grantees will use, and I'm sure after this press, probably most will not use. From page 9: "Each summary contains a proposal listing the curricula that the program intends to use." So two of these 13 programs are just fine to use. Use them, and all objections go away.

Second, in the bluring the scientific-religion line section it states "Although religions and moral codes offer different answers to the question of when life begins, some abstinence-only curricula present specific religious views on this question as scientific fact. One curriculum teaches: Conception, also known as fertilization, occurs when one sperm unites with one egg in the upper third of the fallopian tube. This is when life begins. I was unaware that science had a firm definition of when life begins in the first place. Not to mention, I fail to see much religion in the above portion, sure some religions hold that, others don't, but there are atheists who also hold it. Further, from m-w.com (not precisely a religious site) the definition of life:

1 a : the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body
b : a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings -- compare VITALISM
1 c : an organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction

The qualities of metabolism, growth, reaction and reproduction all are present in varying degrees in an unborn child. Moving on.

Third, in the same section "One curriculum that describes fetuses as babies describes the blastocyst, technically a ball of 107 to 256 cells at the beginning of uterine implantation, as snuggling into the uterus:". The word snuggling is objectionable? I didn't realize that when I hold my wife I was engaging in a liturgical rite. Of all the nit-picky crap to waste tax payer money on printing he chooses this? Some of his earlier points he has something (if true), but this is just stupid.

Fourth, Another teaches: At 43 days, electrical brain wave patterns can be recorded, evidence that mental activity is taking place. This new life may be thought of as a thinking person. The curriculum cites a source which does not in fact call a 43-day-old fetus a thinking person. Waxman should learn to read and know the difference between what the author is citing and what the author is saying. But this is again, childish semantic crap.

I'll grant him some of the stuff quoted if true and in that context make for curricula probably not best for schools. So use the 2 that Waxman approves of then. Case closed.

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