Posted on 09/26/2002 9:59:50 AM PDT by toenail
Jailbait
How antiabortion zealots posing as underage girls tried to entrap Planned Parenthood workers.
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By Katharine Mieszkowski
The girl on the phone says she's 13 and pregnant by her 22-year-old boyfriend. She needs an abortion, but doesn't want her parents to find out. Can Planned Parenthood help?
Sure, just as long as she doesn't reveal her boyfriend's age when she comes in for the procedure. She wouldn't want him to get into trouble, now would she?
There's just one catch: There is no distraught 13-year-old girl, no unwanted pregnancy and no cradle-robbing, 22-year-old boyfriend.
The caller is an operative in an elaborate sting conducted by the antiabortion group Life Dynamics. It's a campaign that seeks to paint Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers as silent accomplices in thousands of unreported pedophilia and statutory rape cases. It's a deft guerrilla maneuver by the antiabortion camp. Life Dynamics is wielding laws relating to child abuse in an entirely different arena -- to threaten underage girls' rights to an abortion.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
KEWL...post some of their porn, or erotica, as they call it. Is it worth $30 for something that is already freely available over the internet? Must be some high class stuff....
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