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.
My sister was on the shot, thinking it's "just birth control". She had NO IDEA what it did. I told her what it did, and she and her husband were shocked. No one told her, she could be spontaneously aborting every month. Planned Parenthood never told her.
One reason for PP's support by middle-class Democrat women is that they do not like the idea of their wayward husbands being sued for child support by some teen, or (worse) having their meal ticket transported to jail for having gotten a minor pregnant
Another big theme is that every woman (and they would classify a 12 or 13 year old as a "woman") must make her own choices about all aspects of her life. So while they would not want to notify parents or authorities about a relationship that the girl is saying is consensual, since those parties might FORCE her to discontinue it, they will eagerly fill her mind with ideology designed to get her to "DECIDE" that she wants to discontinue the relationship.
It's all pretty loopy, but most feminists adhere to this ideology, and they are quite eager to convert young girls and women to their belief system.
I'm sure that in most cases like the one described in the article, PP advises the girl to get counseling from someone who would recommend reporting the relationship to authorities, and/or advises her that the police would be interested in hearing about the relationship. However, like most organizations and individuals who provide counseling to victims of various sorts of abuse, they are wary of contacting authorities against their client's wishes, because word of such policies gets around quickly, and is likely to discourage other victims from going to the organization or individual for help. This tends to cause victims to continue viewing their abuser as an ally or protector, which in turn enables the abuse to continue. This article also seems to assume, without evidence, that such girls are 1) telling the truth, and 2) willing to identify the man. In fact, some girls may well be using the "I was raped" or "An older man did this to me" ploy in hopes of getting free services, and those who are telling the truth have probably been warned by the man (with accompanying threats) not to identify him. PP staffers no doubt have plenty of experience with both of these scenarios.
Some years ago, a friend of mine was a volunteer counselor at an independent PP-like clinic, and related a number of stories to me about pregnant adolescent girls. When accompanied by a parent (almost always the mother), the girls usually claimed they had been "raped", but when taken into a room alone with a counselor, the rape story always fell apart. It appeared that the parents were skeptical of the rape story too, since they had brought the girl to PP, but had not contacted police. Thus bringing parents into the picture is not necessarily helpful in getting to the truth.
I must laugh. You have just described my 19-year marriage. Does that count?
You want to call down the RICO statutes on Catholic church leaders who didn't report priestly criminal abuse of young teen boys, but you defend PP clinics who don't report heterosexual criminal abuse of young teen girls.
At least with a young teen girl seeking an abortion who has been statutorily raped by an older man, there is irrefutable evidence of the crime. In a priestly abuse case, it might be much more difficult to establish guilt.
In both cases, I believe that it is against the law for the organization (Catholic Church or PP) NOT to report the crime.
The consent of the victim is irrelevant in both cases. The abuser will use every psychological trick in the book to be able to continue his abuse of the victim. How else can you account for the fact that many of the priestly abuse victims allowed the abuse to continue for years, just as the young girls allowed the older men to continue to abuse them? That's why we have laws against such things. Young teens are unable to protect themselves from evil, crafty older perverts.
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