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Should Planned Parenthood be Forced to Report Child Rape?
Abortionists to surrender records of child rape? Court reviews Planned Parenthood's extensive 'cover-up' of sexual abuse Posted: May 20, 2008
9:34 pm Eastern
WorldNetDaily Planned Parenthood clinic in Cincinnati, Ohio
Amid fierce accusations that Planned Parenthood has systematically concealed cases of statutory rape and sexual abuse from authorities, the organization may be required hand over revealing patient records in a precedent-setting case. Ohio clinic staff are said to have deliberately concealed the statutory rape of a 14-year-old girl abused by her school's soccer coach. The trainer, age 21, drove the pregnant girl to the Cincinnati abortion clinic after he discovered she was carrying his child. According to the [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. , the ADF filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the Ohio Supreme Court Monday. The organization claim the abortion provider frequently fails to notify authorities when underage children have been sexually abused. "The health and safety of young girls trumps Planned Parenthood's desire for secrecy," ADF Senior Legal Counsel Jeff Shafer said. "Ohio law mandates that Planned Parenthood report the sexual abuse of minors, and evidence that may reveal the organization's violation of that legal obligation may not be hidden." ADF is asking the Ohio court to reverse an earlier appellate court decision preventing the girl and her parents from having access to clinic records that may indicate routine cover-up of statutory rape and other sexual abuse. The child's parents sued Planned Parenthood when they learned staff performed an abortion on their daughter at the request of her soccer coach without contacting authorities, a requirement in cases of statutory rape. Neither the clinic nor the coach informed the girl's parents of her abortion or sexual activity. ADF filed the lawsuit to collect clinic documents that could reveal a history of illegal statutory rape cover-up. A judge ordered Planned Parenthood to release specific records; however, the abortion provider appealed the original decision, and an Ohio appellate court ruled in favor of the clinic. The case is now being heard by the Ohio Supreme Court. (Story continues below) [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link.
"Planned Parenthood is not above the law," ADF-allied attorney David Langdon said. "Planned Parenthood is attempting to hide behind inapplicable physician-patient privilege in an apparent effort to protect itself." The case is just one more of a series of incidents involving Planned Parenthood's failure to report adult sex with minors and underage pregnancies. As [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. , a lawsuit was filed in Warren County, Ohio, against Planned Parenthood, alleging the facility provided an abortion to a teenage girl after a father sought the procedure to cover up his sexual abuse of the teen. Dana Cody, a lawyer who filed the action on behalf of the girl, said rather than report the abuse, as required under state law, "Planned Parenthood went ahead and was complicit with the abortion." The abuse continued for another 18 months before it was reported by a basketball coach, and the father eventually was convicted of sexual assault. In a seperate case, a pro-life organization in Waco, Texas, called for an explanation of a large discrepancy between statistics regarding statutory rape cases Planned Parenthood said it reported and the number of cases actually documented by law enforcement or other authorities. Despite prevalent criticism for performing abortions on underage girls and shielding statutory rapists by not reporting them to authorities, [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. , with many new cases of underage girls, according to investigations of violations of state criminal reporting laws. [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. , through which many clinics gain a significant amount of revenue, the abortion provider has reportedly put itself at risk of losing funding for refusing to follow state laws – including reporting laws.
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What a tangled mess this is. Child abuse should never be covered up, but will these young girls resort to dangerous alternatives if they know it will be reported if they seek treatment? I hate abortions, but I also hate what happened to many girls and women before they were available. A botched home or back street abortion is a horrible way to die.
Planned Parenthood has been doing this type of thing for years. They allow under age girls to get abortions without ever notifying the parents. I'm sorry but under age children have no right to privacy when it comes to their sexual activity. Even if they wanted to have a child at that young an age it is not good for them physically. Their bodies are not ready to handle the stresses of childbirth.
I hope the people responsible for hiding these crimes are brought to justice.
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