under age drinking and trespassing are petty crimes that can be forgiven... RAPE is a FELONY and most definitely not a forgivable offense
Posted on 06/05/2005 6:11:57 PM PDT by CHARLITE
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 movement 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' 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.
This shouldn't surprise anyone. They know which $ide their bread i$ buttered on.
Killing babies is big business but it's also killing the Social Security system.
later pingout.
Yes and I can also say "polymorphous perversity".
They see abortion as a religious commandment that trumps all other laws and matters. I once got called out of work to sign a consent form for the school to put anti biotic ointment on my son's finger when he got stung by a bee. But a surgical procedure for a young girl is none of her parents' business. The fact that she was raped is secondary (or maybe tertiary) to the fact that she is getting an abortion. For all their talk of rape and incest they do not want a crackdown on rapists or incestuous relatives they just want the abortions.
When you have someone like Warren Buffet prepared to donate most of his fortune to a foundation that supports this sort of organization, you really gotta' wonder what he does for kicks.
Thanks for posting this.
Imagine that a A 17 year old boy gets sick with alcohol poisoning. His buddies might be reluctant to take him to the hospital, cause of fear that the circumstances of his drinking, will be revealed to the authorities.
Or if a boy starts to drown while swiming in forbidden lake waters. His buddies might decline to call the search & rescue, cause of fear of being prosecuted for trespassing.
This could obviously endanger the boy's life.
I am not defending PP by any means. I'm only saying we should always be aware of possible unintended consequences when medicine become an extension of state law emforement.
Bingo! Can you say sustained development, one must be properly desensitized.
Hey, whatta bumper sticker!!
I think in the case of Kansas it goes a bit deeper from what I understand "Kline demanded their complete, unedited medical records", not just for underage girls but for all women he "suspected" of getting late term abortions.
Now I think abortion is wrong period but when the government decides that it can start looking at my medical records, back off.
If it turns out this is a fishing expedition, not good for anyone.
Not as easy as it all sounds.
And remember boys & girls - tax dollars help fund Planned Parenthood.
under age drinking and trespassing are petty crimes that can be forgiven... RAPE is a FELONY and most definitely not a forgivable offense
This shouldn't be a fishing expedition. Isn't PP obligated to report rape cases if known or suspected? If not then we have at least as big of a problem given the objective of this organization. But I am not a fan of any arbitrary examination of any personel records.
Agreed Rape should be reported and the perp should be hung (that is simple). But the Kansas case doesn't seem as clear cut as what seems to be happening in Indiana. The article makes this seem so and from what I've read this isn't the case. Then again I'm relying alot on the MSM if anyone has any more detail please add.
As always, the liberals look to short term profits rather than long term viability.
I think we are in agreement. Obviously a 13 year old girl has no right to privacy if she has had sexual relations, consensual or no.
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