Posted on 05/02/2005 4:41:40 PM PDT by CHARLITE
You’ve seen all the press lately on parents’ demanding to know if a sexual predator is in their neighborhood. Likewise, what parent wouldn’t want evidence of a possible sexually based offense against a child reported to the authorities?
Yet, when my good friend state Attorney General Phillip Kline recently took steps to make these things happen, it was labeled an “inquisition.” Why? The almost sacred status of the “right to an abortion.”
Earlier this year, Phillip Kline, the attorney general of Kansas, subpoenaed the medical records of ninety women “who received late-term abortions at two Kansas clinics in 2003.” In his application to the Kansas Supreme Court, Kline made his reasons for the request clear: to see if the clinics had violated Kansas law against late-term abortions and to investigate possible sexual predators.
Kline’s critics immediately seized on his pro-life beliefs and labeled his request a “fishing expedition.” Kline, who is under a gag order not to discuss specifics of the case, replied that “the issue in this case is whether abortion clinics are above the law.” Without the records, the state argues, there’s no way to make a “reasonably informed judgment” about what went on in the clinics and in those late-term abortions.
An equally important and outrageous issue here is the possible failure by abortion clinics to report sex crimes against minors.
According to Kansas health officials, seventy-eight girls under the age of 15 had abortions there in 2003. Since, under Kansas law, as in most states, no girl under fifteen can legally consent to sex, these girls were all the victims of, at least, statutory rape, a sex crime punishable by as much as thirteen years in prison.
This highlights a little-known and even less-discussed aspect of the abortion industry: In addition to destroying a human life, the abortion clinics can also withhold or destroy evidence of a crime. The abortion industry, as we all know, promotes the image of being responsible, of helping frightened teenaged girls whose boyfriends got them pregnant. What they know and neglect to mention to parents or to the police is that those “boyfriends” are, more often than not, adults.
A study by Mike Males of the University of California, Irvine, found that “roughly half of the babies born to 15-year-old mothers were fathered by adult men no longer in school.” Even worse, Males and his colleagues found that the “younger the girl [giving birth], the wider the age gap.” There’s every reason to believe that what is true in the maternity ward is also true at the abortion clinic. The men getting 15-year-old girls pregnant aren’t lustful teenagers; they’re sexual predators.
These are the only people benefiting from the opposition to Kline’s investigation. Invoking the “right to privacy” and “doctor-patient privilege” when 14-year-olds are involved only makes it easier for their assailants to victimize someone else’s child.
Isn’t it sadly ironic that in such a “safety-conscious” society we tolerate this state of affairs? It’s proof, if you need it, of the almost religious significance of “abortion rights.” Nothing, not even our daughters’ well-being, can interfere with these rights. And they call us fanatics!
For further reading and information:
Today’s BreakPoint offer: Heritage Foundation study: “ Sexually Active Teenagers Are More Likely to Be Depressed and to Attempt Suicide .”
Gracie Hsu, “ Statutory Rape: The Dirty Secret Behind Teen Sex Numbers ,” Family Research Council.
Learn more about the Child Custody Protection Act .
Michael W. Lynch, “ Enforcing ‘statutory rape’? ” Public Interest, summer 1998.
David Klepper, “ Documents show focus of Atty. Gen. Kline’s inquiry into Kansas’ Abortion Clinic Practices ,” Kansas City Star, 4 March 2005 . Reprinted on Freerepublic.com.
Michael Males, Ph.D., “ Teens and Older Partners ,” ETR’s Resource Center for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, May-June 2004.
Mark Stricherz, “ Medical-Record War Heats Up ,” Christianity Today, May 2005.
Peter Bronson, “ Abortion clinics shouldn’t help shield those who rape young girls ,” Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 April 2005.
See BreakPoint’s “Worldview for Parents” page “ Big Business: Marketing Strategies behind Abortion .”
See webpage for links to the above excellent, informative articles. http://www.pfm.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=BreakPoint1&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=15931
I can't see forcing girls or women to bear children for the benefit of rapists and I cannot see forcing anybody to bear a genetically compromised child.
Define "genetically compromised."
I was born with a a double cleft palate, yet it was recently ruled in Britain that aborting such a child was okay, because of the birth defect.
So, care to draw the line?
Statutory rape, while it may or may not be "consensual" is still a crime. There IS a will to prosecute adult violators even if we no longer go after same age teens.
It does not have to be a crime of violence or threats for "rape" or molestation to have occurred. This is why the girls are UNDER the age of CONSENT. They are not old enough to consent to sex.
Alternate possiblity it to lower the age of consent to 9. Good enough for Mohammed's wife, good enough for all girls.
But is statutory rape considered "rape" when pro-lifers talk about the "rape, incest, life of mother" exception?
Many cases of abortion in girls 15 and younger, in my experience (professional) is due to promiscuity and not rape or coercion. The young girls are eager to brag to their friends about their expertise and believe me - they brag. If it's not sexual intercourse, it's oral sex. And it's in the middle schools. Grades 5 through 8! The reason these girls don't care is because there are no consequences to be borne. Either their parents will shoulder the responsibility, the child will be given up for adoption, or an abortion is procured.
Do you think it is because the girls don't care, or that the parents don't care?
I find it interesting, though, we have two sides presented here.
You are saying girls that age are promiscuous, yet according to the article, there is a lot of statutory rape being covered up.
Could it be the girls are going after older guys, and the guys aren't say no?
When you abort a baby because it was conceived by rape, you are making the baby pay for the father's crime. Hmmm. It would be a far nobler thing, and better by far for the mother's soul, and for the value of all human life, to birth that baby and if the mother can't love it and raise it becuase it is her child, then put it up for adoption. It would be a blessing to many people. Rape is a crime, but abortion is NOT the solution. It only adds a second crime against an innocent.
Not only your excellent example, geek, but many times these "tests" to determine "genetic problems" are Just Dead Wrong.
The AMA *admits* to a very high error rate in diagnosis, I wonder what the real numbers are. And we are going to kill babies based on this?
How about a bumper sticker with a developing child(fetus)
saying or thinking: "Hey MOM, keep your hands of MY body!"
How about a bumper sticker with a developing child(fetus)
saying or thinking: "Hey MOM, keep your hands of MY body!"
I was all set to toss out "Stephen Hawking" too.
I'd no idea the tests used to determine genetic abnormality were that inaccurate.
Btw, I knew three adults that had been adopted as children, and they referred to themselves as "would be abortions" or some such. They were under no illusions as to their chances of being born in this day and age.
>> Sacrificing Our Daughters: Abortion and Sexual Predation <<
Or, in the words of Dylan, ".. old men turning young daughters into whores".
It has to be the woman's choice and some would in fact agree with you and go ahead and bear a child for a rapist. Nonetheless I'd have to guess that most wouldn't, and no law should force them to. That, to me at least, is totally uncivilized.
No. I mean with Down syndrome or any other major genetic defect. Nobody should be legally forced to bear a child who will be at that much of a disadvantage in life. Granted abortion is killing, but we kill for food as well...
Statutory rape is carnal knowledge of a person under the age of consent. The term doesn't take into consideration if it is willing or unwilling. Not all cases, but many cases are willing. Not informed, just willing. It's very sad.
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