Planned Parenthood abuse cover up

LiveActionNews.org  —   Former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson’s book, “The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories,”contains the testimony of one former clinic worker who saw firsthand how willing her Planned Parenthood facility was to protect a woman’s pimp, even when it was clear the woman was being physically abused.

In the essay titled, “A Special Place in Hell,” a clinic worker writes about a woman named Diane, who was a prostitute and a frequent client at the facility.

For over ten years, Diane had been coming to Planned Parenthood regularly. As the clinic worker points out, she had four separate charts that were “dogeared and falling apart.”

The former clinic worker describes Diane’s visits:

Almost without fail, when we saw Diane she would be infected with one STD or another. We knew that she had a pimp. Typically she would have bruises all over her body, sometimes a black eye or a split lip or a gash in her arm. Many of us assumed that these wounds were inflicted by her pimp, or perhaps the culprit was one of her customers. But we never asked…

The clinic’s unofficial position on prostitution was identical to its stance concerning abortion. A woman had the right to choose what she did with her body. Period. End of story. We were trained to think that prostitution or stripping was as valid a choice for a woman as being a nurse or a lawyer. We were there to treat their recurrent STDs, abort their babies, and send them on their way. Never were we to “judge” their lifestyles.”

The problem with this “nonjudgmental” attitude was that it was clear as day that Diane was in a deeply unhealthy situation. Repeated STDs, extensive physical abuse — these things would concern any legitimate health care provider. But Planned Parenthood, in its effort to promote sexual freedom, allowed Diane’s abuse to continue.

One day Diane came into the clinic escorted…by her pimp.…This guy would terrify Rambo. He was a giant of a man…

Diane cowered at his side, bruised and battered as usual. She seemed so childlike and frail in his presence. It was obvious that he had complete control over her. We got her in and out as quickly as possible that day.

It should have been clear to the Planned Parenthood workers that Diane was being exploited. Her obvious injuries and fearful attitude were red flags showing that she was not participating in the sex trade of her own free will. Her obvious fear of her abusive pimp should have prompted the facility to take steps to protect her. But the facility ignored her plight. They were happy to take the pimp’s money and send Diane back to the street.

The former clinic worker goes on to say:

After she left the clinic that day, I turned over in my mind all the times she had come to the clinic with obvious signs of physical abuse covering her from head to toe, flashing like a neon sign.… We never showed any real warmth or compassion to Diane. She was treated like a child – a dullard that we were forced to deal with. At best, she was regarded with cold indifference.…

The day her pimp brought her to the clinic, the realization that he was the only one that we had really been protecting struck me.

Every one of her black eyes or busted lips cried out to us, begging us to care. But we failed to even ask the most basic questions because we didn’t want to judge her way of life. She left the clinic that day, most certainly returning to a life of cruelty and endless days of servicing men for a paltry sum paid directly to her controlling pimp.

It is clear that Planned Parenthood failed Diane. What is unknown is how many other “Dianes” there are. How many women are Planned Parenthood allowing to be exploited? How many pimps are they helping? How many women and girls are suffering from their indifference? How long before we cut taxpayer funding to an organization that protects pimps and helps them exploit women?

In its sting videos, Live Action has documented multiple situations in which Planned Parenthood workers were willing to cover up the alleged sex trafficking of minors. Live Action sent a man posing as a pimp into different Planned Parenthood facilities to ask about birth control and abortions for his underage sex slaves. No fewer than seven Planned Parenthood facilities offered to help the alleged pimp and hide his sex ring from the authorities. They were more than willing to ignore and overlook his his claimed exploitation of young women.

In one case, a Planned Parenthood worker even gave the pimp advice on how to better run his sex slave “business”:

Planned Parenthood has shown itself willing to cover up sex trafficking and shield pimps from prosecution, caring more about its image than real care for young girls and women. Former Planned Parenthood manager, Ramona Trevino, shares what happens behind closed doors at Planned Parenthood:

Source: Abby Johnson The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 2016) 51-53. Used with permission by the author.

This article was originally published at Live Action News.

LiveActionNews.org —  And Then There Were None, an organization that helps abortion workers leave the industry, held a webcast where former abortion workers spoke about things they witnessed in the abortion business. Monica Cline was one speaker. Cline worked as a sex educator, and, though not directly employed by Planned Parenthood, worked with the Planned Parenthood abortion franchise extensively. She became the manager of Title X funds, which are government funds given to Planned Parenthood and other organizations to promote sex education, birth control, and teen pregnancy prevention.  While the funds do not directly pay for abortion, they free up funds that Planned Parenthood can use to promote and provide abortions.

Cline was sent to conventions where she gave talks to Planned Parenthood workers. She remembers one talk in particular:

I was teaching on human trafficking and statutory rape, and was telling Planned Parenthood staff of Corpus Christi and the Gulf Coast, basically, you’ve got to report when you see a girl coming in with an older man who you can tell is not her father. You know something’s wrong, you’ve got to report that; it’s considered human trafficking. It is also considered statutory rape; you’ve got to report this. And they started laughing. And I said, ‘I don’t think there was anything I said that was funny. What’s going on here?’ And the response was, ‘Honey, if she’s not having sex with this man this week she’ll have another one next week.’

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Cline realized then that the Planned Parenthood workers had no intention of reporting statutory rape or sex trafficking. They assumed that the teens coming to Planned Parenthood, even the 13-year-olds, were consenting to sexual activity and would only continue having sex with older men. They saw them as sexually aggressive with no self-control, even though they were just children. Planned Parenthood workers completely ignored the girls’ victimization.

Cline continued:

And so their view of our children is distorted. It’s dehumanized. I don’t know why their hearts are hardened, but they are. And so when a girl or a young man goes there for an abortion, or condoms or testing, they don’t see them with compassion anymore, if they ever did. They see them as just, almost like an animal who can’t control themselves, there always gonna have sex so we’re just going to give them enough lube and condoms and hope they come in to get tested before they get some kind of cancer. They’re not gonna stop statutory rape.

The Planned Parenthood workers told her how they really dealt with statutory rape in their facilities:

One of the things that they even mentioned was, they adopted George Bush’s don’t ask, don’t tell [policy] in the military for homosexuality, so they said well if it’s good enough for Bush, it’s good enough for us. If we don’t ask how old her partner is, we don’t have to tell. And so Planned Parenthood actually allows victims of human trafficking to continue to be victims of human trafficking. And they’re okay with that. I went back to my office and I told my supervisor, listen, I’m trying to teach them about key concepts on title X; they’re admitting that they’re not gonna report cases of statutory rape.

To Cline’s surprise, her supervisor defended the abortion workers:

The response from my supervisor was, ‘Your job is to teach them key concepts, and that’s it.’ She was really upset with me that I challenged that. So they’re not protecting our children, and that’s a message we need to give out to the parents, that so many parents believe that Planned Parenthood and all the other clinics, they must – they’re the experts, they’re the medical staff, they must know better. But they don’t.

Cline also spoke about how Planned Parenthood hid girl’s sexual activity from their parents, even when their partners were adults:

Planned Parenthood likes to keep secrets. They tell the kids, ‘You don’t have to give me your real name. You don’t have to give me a phone number where your parents might find out. Give me the number to your friend’s house so I can remind you to come in for a checkup or remind you to come in for birth control pills.’ They will do anything possible to keep parents out-of-the-way.

Young women who are victimized by statutory rape do not find help at Planned Parenthood.

In Arizona, a 12-year old went to Planned Parenthood pregnant after being raped by her 23-year-old foster brother. The girl herself was in foster care, and very vulnerable. Planned Parenthood did not report the abuse, and it continued. Six months later, the rapist brought her back to Planned Parenthood, pregnant again. Five days afterward, Planned Parenthood finally reported the abuse after allowing the girl to be raped for six more months.

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In another case involving a 15-year old, the victim came in with her mother, who let Planned Parenthood know that the man who impregnated her was an adult. The mother was told by Planned Parenthood staff that reporting the abuse was too much of a “hassle.” Instead, the sexual assault was filed in the paperwork as consensual sex.

The abuser was later arrested and charged with numerous cases of sexual assault. At least four of his teenage victims were raped after Planned Parenthood chose not to report the abuse.

In Colorado, a 13-year-old was raped by her step-father, who took her to Planned Parenthood for an abortion. According to a lawsuit that was later filed, the facility committed an abortion on her and sent her back home with her abuser, who continued raping her. The rapes continued for two more months until the mother finally found out about the abuse. The price of Planned Parenthood’s negligence for the girl was two additional months of sexual assault.

Another 13-year-old in California was abused by her father. She went to Planned Parenthood for an abortion, and they gave her one without informing anyone. She came in for another abortion appointment and had an IUD fitted, still being abused by her stepfather. The facility never reported the abuse, but it was eventually brought to light.

In Ohio, a 16-year-old was also sexually abused by her father and went to Planned Parenthood for an abortion. She had been victimized by him for four years, ever since she was eleven. She told the Planned Parenthood workers that she was being forced into sex, but they still did not report the abuse. She endured another year and a half of being raped by her father.

These children were victims. They were not promiscuous adolescents having sex with a different man every day. They were clearly young people being exploited. Planned Parenthood allowed their abuse to continue and, in one case, allowed a rapist to prey on others. Sadly, there are many stories like these.

Monica Cline’s testimony only confirms Planned Parenthood’s typical response to children victimized by older men.  Planned Parenthood workers do not report sexual abuse thereby aiding sexual predators, allowing the abuse to continue, and failing the very women and girls they vow to help.

This article was originally published at Live Action News.

Did your parents ever let you walk home from school? If so, the American Psychological Association (APA) wouldn’t have been pleased. According to the APA, kids shouldn’t even be crossing the street. Its Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance published a study that found children under 14 “lack the perceptual judgment and motor skills to safely cross a busy road consistently.”

Apparently their judgement isn’t totally useless, though: the APA doesn’t have a problem with minors walking into an abortion clinic (provided they don’t cross any streets, of course). Claiming “there is no empirical evidence to suggest that adolescents by about age 14 are less competent to consent to abortion than adults,” the APA has opposed laws requiring both parents to be notified if their minor child seeks one.

For child sex predators, that’s great news. When minors get pregnant, people should ask questions. Colorado’s Office of Children, Youth, & Families thinks so, anyway. It advises caution when a child under 14 “becomes pregnant or contracts a venereal disease.” Staff at Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains weren’t so worried: they said nothing when Timothy Smith brought his 13-year-old stepdaughter in after impregnating her. As one employee admitted, “being thirteen and pregnant alone is not a red flag” there. After the evidence was killed, the abuse resumed.

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The staff that helped Edgar Ramirez took a similar approach. He got them to perform an abortion on his 13-year-old daughter and then another one less than 6 months later. And while she didn’t receive much concern, Planned Parenthood did give her something: an IUD.’

Planned Parenthood also didn’t report Cary Cross when he brought his 13-year-old stepdaughter in either. Instead, they referred her for an abortion at 20 weeks. Other child rapists like John Blanks, Jr., Luis Gonzalez-Jose, Andrew King, John Haller, Adam Gault, and Grey David Woods got a hand from America’s largest abortion chain too. And cover-up abortions aren’t just an American problem: a man in Canada made his 13-year-old stepdaughter have two abortions to hide the fact he was abusing her. His crimes only came to light when he was caught assaulting another girl.

These are only a few of the cases that have come to light; there’s no way to know how many victims suffer in silence. Even when they do speak up, there’s no guarantee it’ll do any good. As Live Action’s Sarah Terzo has documented, “choice provider” Willie Parker has acknowledged at least one incident in which he knowingly turned an incest victim back over to her abuser. That fits with how a New Jersey Planned Parenthood clinic director responded to people claiming to be human traffickers; she had no problem arranging abortions for child prostitutes who “can’t speak English” and “won’t know what’s going on.”

President Trump has gone after Planned Parenthood's Title X funding, but thanks to Congress, America's largest abortion chain still receives over million of your dollars--that needs to change. Because while the American Psychological Association might think that fourteen year-olds can't be trusted to cross the street, Planned Parenthood just can't be trusted.

Note: This article was originally published at Secular Pro-Life. 

LiveActionNews.org —  Planned Parenthood facilities and other abortion providers have a long history of enabling the sexual exploitation of teenage girls and protecting abusers. When minors show up at abortion facilities, they are sometimes pregnant by older men. An older man who has sex with a teenage girl commits statutory rape. Abortion facilities are required to report, but many don’t. Former abortion workers have spoken out about how and why they avoided reporting the sexual abuse of minors.

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Live Action’s Mona Lisa Investigation found that seven different Planned Parenthood centers in five different states ignored statutory rape reporting laws and covered up the sexual abuse of minors.

In a webcast sponsored by the pro-life group And Then There Were None, a former abortion worker explained how her facility avoided reporting statutory rape. And Then There Were None is a group founded by former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson.

In one webinar sponsored by this group, a former abortion worker from a facility in Texas said:

During the times that my training, I shadowed a few minor encounters, and there were times when the minor reported that her partner was more than four years older than her and upon hearing it the first time my trainer would then ask other questions, and eventually the minor would see where it was heading, you know, toward a report, and the minor would backtrack, and think, “oh no, I don’t know, maybe he was only three years older than me,” or you know – my trainer would kind of give hints that, you know, four years is leading toward a report, so you need to fix it, not directly, like with the tone of her voice. And the minor would backtrack and say, “maybe I’m mistaken.”

And we would take the lower age just so that we wouldn’t have to report it. This is what my trainer used to do, you know, kind of coerce them into saying something that wouldn’t lead to report.

Former abortion worker Shelley Guillory explained why abortion facilities don’t like to report statutory rape:

That way we didn’t have to get any law enforcement involved because – you have to stop and think. When we have a minor that’s come in and there’s suspected child abuse or sexual abuse we have to get law enforcement involved. Law enforcement has to be there from the beginning of the procedure to the end. They’re samples and specimens that have to be collected so they can do DNA analysis. Well this makes a lot of our other patients uncomfortable. So to get around that, we started lying about ages. So, we had no conflicts as far as that was concerned.

Rather than disrupt the routine in the abortion facility, it was easier not to report. It did not matter that underage minors were being exploited.

Abby Johnson responded to the abortion worker’s testimony by saying:

[I] think that’s common. I’ve found sometimes that charts — when I would audit charts — I would find charts sometimes where the client, when they filled out a medical history, if they were a minor, it would ask, you know, ‘when was the first time you had sex?’ And they would write on there 13 or 12 or something, and in Texas that’s automatically reportable. And so then the counselor, just like you’re saying, the patient educator would sit down with them and go, “Ok, are you sure it was thirteen because if it’s thirteen, now, that’s reportable in the state of Texas. Are you sure it wasn’t fourteen?” And then the client would say, “Oh yeah, I think it was fourteen.”

And then I would look at the history and the educator would have scratched out 13 and would have written, “Patient was not correct. She first actually had sex at age fourteen.” I don’t know if it’s just laziness, that they don’t want to make the report, I don’t know, sometimes it could be that the patient is saying, “please don’t report.” But you know, we’re not there to make sure the patient leaves happy we didn’t report, we’re there to protect these minor girls. So, I totally know what you’re talking about because I saw that happen inside my own facility as well.

Teen girls may be afraid of the abuse being reported. They may think they will “get in trouble” or be intimidated at the thought of talking to police. But the abortion workers, as adults, should want to stop the exploitation. Instead, they allow the abuse to continue.

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Whether the workers just don’t want to go through the trouble of reporting, or they fear that police involvement will slow down the facility’s operations and lead to fewer abortions being done (and therefore less profit being made) they don’t report the sexual abuse of minors.

This article was originally published at Live Action News.