Posted on 07/02/2002 12:39:50 PM PDT by toenail
THE RYAN REPORT
Life Dynamics study shows PP conceals sex-abuse crimes
Life Dynamics, Inc., a Denton, Tex., based pro-life research organization headed by Mark Crutcher, has released a shocking study that shows that Planned Parenthood is routinely violating state laws that require the reporting of child sexual abuse. These violations are grounds for demanding that Planned Parenthood be denied our tax money.
Crutcher points out that in all states sexual activity with underage children is illegal. Furthermore, states mandate that if a healthcare worker has reason to suspect that an underage girl is being sexually abused, that worker is required to report this information to the police or a child protective services agency. It is then the responsibility of the police or the agency to investigate the possibility that the child may be the victim of sexual abuse and/or statutory rape.
Obviously, if an underage girl is pregnant, that is a red flag indicating sexual abuse, and possibly statutory rape. Furthermore, even if an underage girl is not pregnant but is coming to obtain birth control, that too should be a red flag. Consider the following two examples:
This allowed the teacher to continue the abuse without fear that the girl would get pregnant.
Such incidents are not isolated cases, either. Former Surgeon General M. Joycelyn Elders, M.D., certainly cannot be accused of having a pro-life agenda. Elders did, however, co-author a review of existing studies on such abuse entitled, "Adolescent Pregnancy and Sexual Abuse," that was published in The Journal of the American Medical Association on August 19, 1998. She cited references for the following statements:
Life Dynamics, Inc., conducted a telephone survey in which it contacted over 800 Planned Parenthood and National Abortion Federation facilities nationwide. The caller portrayed a 13-year-old girl who was impregnanted by her 22-year-old boyfriend. She said that she wanted an abortion because she and her boyfriend did not want her parents to find out about their sexual relationship.
The results of this survey are appalling. Even though many of the clinic workers openly acknowledged to the caller that the situation was illegal and that they were required to report it, the vast majority readily agreed to conceal the illegal sexual activity. Some clinic workers even coached the caller on how to avoid detection, circumvent parental involvement and what to say or what not to say when she came into the clinic.
One of the first media outlets to pick up the story about LDI's findings was WTIC-TV in Connecticut. The region was still in shock about the 10-year-old girl who was impregnated by a 75-year-old man. In Texas it is legal to tape a call without the other party's knowledge. WTIC-TV tested the validity of the LDI tapes by calling some of the facilities themselves. WTIC-TV said that the tones heard on the tapes matched those the reporter heard while calling, and that when the reporters asked for the employees heard on the tapes, they found them.
Here's a sample of what WTIC-TV posted on its web site on May 22 from the LDI tapes:
Bridgeport Planned Parenthood: "If you're 14, and he's 22, that's illegal."
Girl: "Well, what do you mean, what could happen?"
Bridgeport Planned Parenthood: "Nothing, if you don't want to press charges, it's just, it's not legal."
Girl: "It's just we don't want a whole lot of people to know about us. Would he have to sign anything?"
Norwich Planned Parenthood: "Yeah, but I just...don't, don't talk about his age."
New London Planned Parenthood: "When you go to Norwich, you're going to want to give them a call. Don't tell them that information."
Girl: "Then it will be okay?"
Planned Parenthood: "If you do not say the age of your partner."
Girl: "Okay."
Planned Parenthood: "Okay, otherwise there's going to be a lot of stuff going on that you're probably not going to want to have happen."
Girl: "They won't ask anything about him?"
Willimantic Planned Parenthood: "I'm not going to...I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that, okay?"
Girl: "Okay."
Planned Parenthood: "Don't even bring that up, okay?"
Girl: "Even if he's taking me there?"
Planned Parenthood: "No, no, don't even go there, don't even bring it up."
West Hartford Planned Parenthood: "You just gave me more information than what I needed, okay?"
Girl: "Oh."
Planned Parenthood: "Which was not a good thing, okay? The fact that your boyfriend is 22 and the fact you're 14, that makes us mandated, we're mandated reporters. That means we have to report that."
Girl: "So if you didn't know, it would be okay?"
Planned Parenthood: "It's not that it's okay, it's just what we don't know, we don't know."
WTIC-TV reported that assistant state's attorney Steve Sedensky heard the tapes and said, "The very fact that a 13-year-old is pregnant is an indication that she's (sic) falls under the definition of abuse, regardless of how old she says the perpetrator is." Chief state's attorney Jack Baily, who also heard the tapes said Planned Parenthood "…should give us a call and we would go over the law with them, because they're in violation of the law right now."
Mark Crutcher intends to alert attorneys general and district attorneys across the country about this criminal activity of Planned Parenthood. He will ask them to conduct their own investigations with an eye toward criminal prosecution. Civil lawsuits are planned as well. LDI also plans to launch a nationwide direct mail campaign to inform 16,000 school districts that by associating themselves with Planned Parenthood and/or by facilitating abortion referrals and contraception distribution, they may be opening themselves up to lawsuits.
Recipients of state and federal funds are required to see to it that the funds are used in accordance with state and federal laws. Planned Parenthood's illegal activity regarding child abuse and statutory rape is clear grounds for such funding to be revoked. In fact, a federal appropriations act for 2002 (PL 107-116) that governs the funding of Planned Parenthood's biggest source of federal funds (Title X) says the following:
SEC. 212. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no provider of services under Title X of the Public Health Service Act shall be exempt from any State law requiring notification or the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or incest.
Thus, President Bush should immediately order an investigation by his Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson with an eye toward revoking Title X funds from Planned Parenthood. Attorney General John Ashcroft should be asked to investigate whether Planned Parenthood is conspiring on a national level to knowingly encourage its clinics to ignore state laws regarding the mandated reporting of child abuse and statutory rape.
Even on a local level, the LDI study can be used to convince local county politicians to reject federal Title X funds. It happened in McHenry County, Ill., after the incident described above. The county board voted overwhelmingly to turn back its Title X grant so the county would no longer be required by the terms of the grant to provide young girls with birth control drugs without notifying parents and, thus, be contributing to statutory rape as the lawsuit by the abused girl's parents argued.
STOPP congratulates and thanks Mark Crutcher and all those on his staff at LDI for this incredible report. It is available free online. STOPP supporters are urged to get this report into the hands of their local law enforcement officials, child protective services officials, political leaders and school officials. Ask that they prosecute, de-fund, and remove an organization that is not fulfilling its legal obligation to report child abuse and statutory rape.
This is NO DIFFERENT , no less a committed crime, than the bishops and cardinals and other leaders in the Catholic Church who ignored the pleas of sexual victems and simply moved the perps to new digs wherein the perps could simply rape yet again.
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!
I hope everyone emails this to people who suppost planned parenthood. I know my parents are getting an email momentarily! PATHETIC!!!! Planned Parenthood SUCKS!
Last year, Crutcher tried to establish an alibi for James Kopp, who murdered a doctor who performed abortions.
Caveat emptor is always a good idea with zealots on either side of an issue.
--Raoul
LDI's research is superb. Do you have anything substantial to say?
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