In case after case, Planned Parenthood acts in contempt of its legal and professional obligations to report child rape. At a time when the Obama administration, through its new health care plan, is offering potentially billions of dollars to the abortion industry, state and federal lawmakers need to take notice of Planned Parenthood’s lawlessness and make certain they receive no more taxpayer subsidies.
–UCLA senior Lila Rose, president of Live Action, which has exposed ten different Planned Parenthood clinics in six states breaking the law in ignoring their legal responsibility to report statutory rape in favor of providing an underage girl an abortion
(Via Hot Air.)
February 24, 2010 at 6:45 am
No too surprising considering who was the founder of PP.
February 26, 2010 at 1:06 pm
My son banged his girlfriend. Was I obliged under my state’s law to turn him in for statutory rape? Oh wait, his girlfriend was one year older and one grade ahead of him! And, technically an adult! Maybe I should have turned HER in?
You folks should grow up and get real.
February 26, 2010 at 1:51 pm
You’re the one who needs to grow up. Planned Parenthood has a legal responsibility to report instances of rape, statutory or otherwise, to the police. They didn’t do in a situation where they were told the guy in question wasn’t a year older than the girl, but was 31. Maybe in your world that’s not immoral, but most of us don’t think of the Humbert Humberts of the world as poor, lovesick souls–we think of them as predators. If you don’t mind having Planned Parenthood’s connivance in helping him “bang” your daughter, that’s your problem.
February 26, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Looks like you’ve attracted another liberal troll, David.
February 26, 2010 at 3:10 pm
What can I say? I’m a troll magnet!
February 26, 2010 at 8:55 pm
What, someone disagrees with you and you call him a troll? OK, I did tell you to grow up. Quite the troll, aren’t I!
Now, you tell me how planned parenthood is supposed to tell if someone has been raped, and especially how they are supposed to tell that when the rape is so only under a statute. It would take a legal expert to make that determination, and, in fact, statutory rape laws are so fuzzy and indistinct that even a legal expert can’t always do so.
But that isn’t the reason why I object to your demand that PP attempt this. In fact this is just a legalistic strategy to harass both young people who need help and those who help them in the service of an inhumane ideology. A young girl in trouble who visits planned parenthood is doing nothing more than exercising her right to direct her life in the way she chooses. She doesn’t need you piling it on.
Apparently when you can’t achieve your political goals in a straight forward and open manner through persuasion you feel free to resort to underhanded legalistic maneuvers with the intention of causing pain and grief to others.
February 26, 2010 at 9:16 pm
The definition of an Internet troll is someone who tries to misdirect a comment thread and take it in a direction different from that indicated by the post. The post was about Planned Parenthood’s legal responsibilities. You started talking what parents should do, which is irrelevant to the subject of the post. Hence, you were engaged in trollish behavior on this post. But I’ll let it go for now.
Your response is, to say the least, bizarre. Statutory rape laws are, in fact, crystal clear–intercourse with those under the specified age is rape, regardless of whether there’s consent. There is no difficulty whatsoever for Planned Parenthood to tell when statutory rape has at least been alleged, once the victim is forthcoming about the rapist’s age, which was the case in Lila Rose’s video. When the allegation is made (as it clearly has been in all of Lila Rose’s work), PP has a legal obligation to report it. Police and prosecutors then take it from there. The obligation is there, regardless of whether you or PP or anyone likes it. They ignore the law at their peril.
The help that young people need may or may not come from an abortion. Certainly there’s a real question about whether the proper help they need is going to come from an organization that has a monetary interest in carrying out abortions. Nevertheless, the harassment here isn’t from those who are seeking to get PP to live up to its obligations under the law; it’s come from those who have engaged in predatory behavior with underage girls. If you’re OK with letting them get away with that, try to get the state legislature to change the law so that PP doesn’t have to report statutory rape.
February 26, 2010 at 10:30 pm
RE: The definition of an Internet troll is someone who tries to misdirect a comment thread and take it in a direction different from that indicated by the post.
Sounds to me like accusing someone of being a troll is the prototypical case of being a troll. But to go further into that would be to take the bait and allow the troll to misdirect the discussion.
RE: Statutory rape laws are, in fact, crystal clear–intercourse with those under the specified age is rape, regardless of whether there’s consent.
Not true. For instance, in some states, if a young woman is “sexually mature,” that is, has had sexual liaisons before the incident at hand, it is NOT considered statutory rape. She may even be considered the “prepretrators” common-law wife.
In any case, law enforcement has to use a lot of judgment and discretion in these cases. Under a “crystal clear” interpretation of these laws, we would have to lock up a significant number of high school seniors for their largely accepted sexual activity. The simplistic, moralistic, “crystal clear” approach to human sexuality just doesn’t work. In my opinion, it is naive, basically intellectually immature. That’s why I say, grow up.
No one in the “real world” is buying this tripe about PP aiding and abetting “child sex abuse”. We all know what is going on. Yet another attempt to use the law to harass and intimidate those of us who are just doing what it is within our rights to do.