Posted on 05/20/2002 11:36:54 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
A pro-life research organization says data collected as a result of an ongoing investigation into teen pregnancy show that the number of underage girls being "sexually exploited" by adult men has reached "epidemic" proportions in the U.S. and that Planned Parenthood facilities are knowingly concealing such sex-abuse crimes.
The firm, Life Dynamics, Inc., based in Denton, Texas, said in an eight-page summary of its data that "among girls 15 and younger who become pregnant, between 60 percent and 80 percent of them are impregnated by adult men." Some girls are even as young as 10 years old, said the summary.
"In America today, we have reached the point where a junior high-school girl is more likely to become pregnant by an adult than by someone close to her own age," said the summary. "One study concluded that the average age of men who father children with girls under 14 is now higher than the average age of men who father children with 18-year-olds."
Life Dynamics researchers say they also found "irrefutable evidence" that pro-abortion-rights organizations such as Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation "knowingly conceal" the crimes of sexual abuse of minors "while aiding and abetting the sexual predators who commit them."
While the initial summary "reveals only a fraction of the evidence we have uncovered so far," researchers said, "what we can already reveal is that our country is experiencing an epidemic of child sexual abuse."
In its summary, analysts described how one researcher portrayed a 13-year-old girl made pregnant by a 22-year-old boyfriend. The teen-girl imposter telephoned over 800 Planned Parenthood and NAF facilities across the country.
"Her story was that she wanted an abortion because she and her boyfriend did not want her parents to find out about the sexual relationship," the summary stated.
In every instance, the group said, the ages of the girl and her boyfriend "were made perfectly clear" to clinic workers. "It was also made clear," said the summary, "that the motivation for the abortion was to conceal this illicit sexual activity from the girl's parents and the authorities."
Among the findings:
"In the final analysis," said the summary report, "virtually every Planned Parenthood and NAF facility we contacted was willing to illegally conceal the sexual abuse of this 13-year-old girl. In every case, the clinic representative had never met this child, knew virtually nothing about her, had only engaged in a very brief telephone conversation with her, and was told nothing to indicate that her parents would be abusive if they discovered the sexual relationship.
"Nevertheless, they were willing – and in many cases, eager – to help this child hide from her parents and the authorities the fact that she was being sexually exploited," said the summary. "To that end, they provided step-by-step instructions on how to circumvent state laws that were enacted specifically for the purpose of protecting children exactly like her in situations just like this."
When contacted by WND, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood said she was late for an afternoon meeting and would return calls seeking comment, but failed to do so. A spokeswoman for NAF said she did not want to comment until she'd seen the Life Dynamics report.
Mark Crutcher, president of Life Dynamics, said the evidence gathered thus far means the possibilities for future legal litigation "are nothing less than staggering." And he says the problem has occurred in the first place because, he believes, the nation is "sex-obsessed."
"We are all aware of the firestorm currently swirling around the Catholic Church regarding the issue of pedophile priests," Crutcher said. But "if you look at the lawsuits" surrounding the cases, he continued, "the dioceses are not being sued because their priests molested children. They are being sued for negligence because they allegedly knew about the sexual abuse of the children and failed to report it to the authorities.
"Obviously, any organization or any individual that harbors pedophiles and conceals the sexual abuse of children deserves to be prosecuted," he added. "But that's not what's happening. Instead, [some of these groups] are being given hundreds of millions in tax dollars while doing exactly the same things for which huge awards are being levied against the Catholic dioceses."
Crutcher said concealing abortions from parents or failing to report underage pregnancies to authorities is bad enough, but he said providing teen girls with birth control so they can continue sexual relations with adult males could be viewed "as participating in an ongoing or future crime."
The issue, he says, changes from one of failure to report child sexual abuse or statutory rape, to "actual complicity in child sexual abuse or statutory rape."
"That could be viewed as a felony rather than a misdemeanor," he said.
Life Dynamics said it has established a new website – called ChildPredators.com – to "educate children and parents who may have been victimized by these organizations about their litigation opportunities."
Also, Crutcher said the group plans to take its message to the nation's 16,000-plus school districts, many of which allow Planned Parenthood and others on campus to teach sex education or provide counseling to students.
Have you ever read Abortion Practice, Warren Hern's standard abortion manual? He explicitly states that psychologically troubled women looking for an abortion should be refererred to a mental health practitioner ... after the abortion.
....and you mean to tell me we get up to $500 a pop and government tax dollars to boot??!!??
"if she came in with the cash, she could be any age she wanted to be"
2) This article's authors and several posters are jumping to the conclusion that what PP tells girls over the phone is all they're going to tell them. You can be sure that PP staff, most of whom are ardent feminists, do not approve in the least of adolescent girls having sex with older men. However, if they start lecturing the girl over the phone, she'll hang up and/or never come in -- this would just drive her back to relying on her "boyfriend" for help, which isn't in anyone's best interests. Once such a girl shows up at PP in person, I have little doubt that she'll get an earful from the counselors there about the inadvisability of such relationships. Most likely, they'd offer to help her in reporting it to the police -- at the very least, they'd plant the idea of that option in her head, for future use, when the relationship cools. If the girl is still adamant that she's "in love" with the creep, she wouldn't cooperate with a police investigation anyway, and the police would likely just drop the matter.
Absolute bollocks. Anyone who even bothers to take a cursory look at PP knows they promote the sexual activity of minors.
Whether endorsing sex education programs that emphasize mixed messages, run websites for teenagers that are sexually oriented, or funding TV ad campaigns, there can be no question what PP's bottom line is.
And the reason is simple. Kids have sex, girls get pregnant, girls run to PP to get an abortion, PP gets more blood money.
Surely you do not have to be a rocket scientist to figure this out?
For goodness sakes! What about the rapist jurisdiction of the 22 year old who is able to manipulate a child to get screwed - health, money and jurisdictionaly-wise? What about Planned parenthood knowing and hidding the info from parents? Sure, parents' lack of knowledge is no excuse, but let us go after the Fuerers before we go after the little guys. Please.
Planned Parenthood was founded for the purpose of lowering the birthrate of minorities.
Dave in Eugene
ME TOO!!! That group gets TAX MONEY? That is a travesty.
2)You can be sure that PP staff, most of whom are ardent feminists, do not approve in the least of adolescent girls having sex with older men.
That is jumping to an unwarranted conclusion. Many of the staff at Planned Parenthood may see it as the right of these children to ``control their sexual life,'' and will support anything they are doing that is considered antinomian.
Not surprised to hear this info.
Have you been following the story of the 13 year old girl killed by a 25 year old man she met on the Internet? Custodial aunt dropped the girl off at the mall, unsupervised, and was apparently accustomed to doing this upon the girl's request. This sort of idiocy isn't PP's fault, and I seriously doubt that this girl's guardian would have changed her policy if she got a call from PP telling her that the girl was pregnant. The girl would have cried and gone to confession and told her aunt she wouldn't do it again, and the aunt would have found it convenient to believe her, and dropped her off at the mall again next time she asked.
I also think you are behind the times with PP morality. As long as the older man ``does the right thing,'' by bringing her in for an abortion, the PP staff may not see anything wrong with it.
Whether endorsing sex education programs that emphasize mixed messages, run websites for teenagers that are sexually oriented, or funding TV ad campaigns, there can be no question what PP's bottom line is.
And the reason is simple. Kids have sex, girls get pregnant, girls run to PP to get an abortion, PP gets more blood money.
You're right, but I think it goes way beyond money.
PP is part of the "anti-religion" "pro-socialist" agenda. It's not just about making money off abortions. They want to tear down all societal norms in order to rebuild society in their liberal, socialist image.
Take sex. Sex is a wonderful and fun act. We know that. As parents, and as moral God-fearing people, we believe that sex should be reserved for marriage. If you can go out and have sex whenever you want with whomever you want, marriage is diminished. When marriage is diminished, divorce is easier (surprise, surprise, look at the divorce rates!)
By tearing down moral values, diminishing marriage, making "mistakes" (like STD's and babies) relatively easy to fix, sex becomes just something else to do like dancing or football or gymnastics.
In addition, PP intentionally tries to undermine the relationship between children (particularly girls) and their parents by encouraging children to lie to their parents (breaking two commandments there), and by propagating the myth that their parents would make them do something they don't want to do (have the baby) or putting the parents into the adversarial role (we're with you, honey; your parents aren't.)
I could go on and on about this. PP is an evil organization that wants to destroy our society by dividing children from their parents and giving an adult stamp of approval to bad choices our children are making. Not only with having an abortion, but promiscuous sex, lowering sex to a purely physical and not-emotional bond, and changing sex from a life-giving act to a purely selfish act.
Planned Parenthood needs to be exposed and stopped any non-violent way possible. I commend this organization for exposing their evil ways. I hope more parents read this and find ways to teach their children about sex that are more inline with their moral values and the lives they want for their children.
Which is probably why so many of the statists at the NRLC look askance at them.
Thanks very much for the heads up.
The NRLC is good for bill tracking, and nothing else.
Life Dynamics, the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, and Priests for Life are the only pro-life activist organizations worth supporting.
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