{"id":9628,"date":"2011-11-14T16:51:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T21:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=9628"},"modified":"2011-11-14T16:51:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T21:51:09","slug":"if-its-wrong-at-penn-state-why-is-it-okay-at-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/11\/if-its-wrong-at-penn-state-why-is-it-okay-at-planned-parenthood.html","title":{"rendered":"If it’s wrong at Penn State, why is it okay at Planned Parenthood?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Penn State and Planned Parenthood<\/h1>\n

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

by Steven Aden, Senior Counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"An institution once held in high esteem by the public has been shamed by revelations that it failed to report sexual abuse against children. Despite knowledge by its officials that sexual predators were victimizing children, they swept it under the rug. Now that the news media has brought this to public attention, the institution is facing well-placed anger and demands for justice. Highly placed officials have been forced out. The federal government is investigating whether the refusal to report this child sexual abuse violated federal laws that apply because of reporting requirements attached to the large amounts of federal funding. An excellent public image just one week ago has now been justifiably tarnished as people rethink their support for an institution that could effectively facilitate sexual abuse against children.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m speaking of Penn State. But this should also describe Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A fourteen year old Ohio girl is impregnated by her twenty-two year old soccer coach, a man that she and her parents trust. The coach knows that he needs to get this \u201cproblem\u201d taken care of as quietly as possible since the pregnancy is now proof of his statutory rape – repeated statutory rape, in fact, that began almost a year earlier. He turns to Planned Parenthood and they don\u2019t let him down<\/a><\/strong>. With no questions asked, the Planned Parenthood clinic allows him to sign for the minor\u2019s abortion in place of her mother and father and to speed up the process and perform the abortion quickly in violation of the state\u2019s 24 hour waiting period. Planned Parenthood staffers don\u2019t report the sexual abuse to the authorities either \u2013 leaving the coach with the opportunity to continue molesting his victim. In another Ohio\u00a0case, Planned Parenthood staffers failed to report<\/a>\u00a0a father\u2019s sexual abuse of his thirteen-year-old daughter \u2013 resulting in his continued abuse of his daughter, Denise Fairbanks, for over another year. According to a staffer\u2019s handwritten note, their policy is \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Sadly, there is strong evidence that these are not isolated incidents, only examples of a Planned Parenthood policy of empowering sexual abuse of minors. Live Action investigations have revealed that Planned Parenthood clinics across the country have a similarly nonchalant approach to sexual abuse of young girls. Posing as a thirteen-year-old girl seeking an abortion due to intercourse with her thirty-one-year-old boyfriend, Lila Rose called a\u00a0Bloomington, Indiana Planned Parenthood clinic<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and was encouraged to lie about her boyfriend\u2019s age and to go out of state to skirt parental notification laws. Calls to Planned Parenthood clinics<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in Indianapolis, Tucson, Phoenix, Memphis, Birmingham, Milwaukee, and Louisville revealed similar willingness to hide sexual abuse against children.<\/p>\n

Of Penn State\u2019s scofflaw officials, a leading ethicist, Edward Queen of Emory University, speaks for the chorus when\u00a0he declares<\/a><\/strong>, \u201cthey should be wholeheartedly condemned and punished.\u201d Change will come, Queen says, when we as a culture honor whistleblowers who put the safety of the most vulnerable members of our society first; if we do not, he says, \u201cwe ourselves must bear the guilt.\u201d<\/p>\n

The evidence is overwhelming that Planned Parenthood, which receives hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funding annually, routinely ignores, fails to report, and covers up sexual abuse of young girls by older men.<\/p>\n

It is time for the nation\u2019s number one abortion provider to answer some of the same questions we\u2019re now asking of a football coach in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

\"\"Steven H. Aden is senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund (www.telladf.org<\/a>).<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Read More: http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/stevenaden\/2011\/11\/10\/penn_state_and_planned_parenthood\/page\/full\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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