Members of Congress gathered outside
the U.S. Capitol last week to call attention to an important investigative report
and video series exposing Planned Parenthood’s (PP) repeated failure to notify
law enforcement of suspected human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of
women and girls.
PP has a decades-long history of covering
up crimes against minors which has gone largely ignored. Live Action (LA) has released its report and
video series seeking to blow the lid off PP’s unchecked, ongoing criminal
behavior victimizing young girls who are already victims of sexual assaults. [I wrote about it last week. Read my blog posting of Wednesday, June 13,
2018 – “New LA Undercover Videos Expose PP’s Child Sex Abuse.”]
“Abuse cover-up is systemic to the
abortion industry,” said Lila Rose, founder of LA which produced the
investigative report and video series. “What
these abusers do - what sexual traffickers do - to their victims is take them
or threaten to send them by force to an abortion facility, which can become a key
place for that abuse to be covered up,” said Rose. “And Planned Parenthood, instead of reporting
the abuse as they’re mandated to do in virtually all fifty states by law –– instead
of reporting abuse, instead of being that person who can encounter a girl in a
situation of extreme distress and be that moment of intervention for her –– does
a secret abortion, has a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell policy,’ and sends this
vulnerable young girl back into the arms of sex abusers.”
“Abortion is not
family planning; It is family destruction,” said Rep. Diane Black (R-TN). “The lies that are coming from the Big
Abortion Industry are just heartbreaking,” Black continued. “Live Action’s findings show us that these
same lies are used to willfully neglect reporting these horrific cases of
abuse, rape, and sex trafficking. Sometimes
these young teenage girls plead with Planned Parenthood staff to them help them
escape their abusers, but their pleas go unheeded. It’s come to light that Planned Parenthood
performs abortions on girls as young as 12 years old, and then sends them right
back into the arms of their abusers without alerting the authorities,” noted
Black. “It is shameful.” “Planned Parenthood’s failure to report these
heinous crimes does not empower women or our children; It empowers their
abusers,” said the Congresswoman. “The
despicable cycle of these facilities, turning a blind eye to sexual abuse and
exploitation of our children must end.”
“Planned Parenthood has shown gross
negligence by returning these children to their abusers,” said Rep. Chris Smith
(R-NJ). “I find Planned Parenthood’s complicity
in sex trafficking absolutely appalling.”
“It seems that Planned Parenthood …
has broken the law,” said Rep. Mark Walker (R-NC). “There should be a full investigation into
whether or not Planned Parenthood willfully turned over child victims of abuse
back to their abuser, and if necessary, criminal prosecution.”
“We’re borrowing money from China to
send to Planned Parenthood, how moral is that?” asked Iowa, Rep. Steve King
(R). “I don’t think any taxpayer dollars
should go to any organization that either does abortions or counsels in favor
of them.”
“Planned Parenthood portrays itself as
a champion of women’s rights, but Live Action’s investigation exposes the
abortion giant’s systematic betrayal of vulnerable women and girls,” said
former Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave in advance of the gathering. Musgrave now serves as Vice President of Government
Affairs for Susan B. Anthony List. “Abortion
is a gift to pimps, traffickers, and abusers,” continued Musgrave, “and Planned
Parenthood, America’s largest abortion business, has helped them cover their
tracks while raking in more than half a billion dollars from taxpayers every
year. We can’t put a price on the lives
and dignity of unborn children and their mothers. That’s why further action is needed to disentangle
taxpayers from the scandal-ridden abortion business.”
As a result of LA’s reporting, 56-members
of Congress have called on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS) to begin an investigation into PP.
The letter from Congress to HHS Secretary Alex M. Azar II states in
part:
“The report’s findings suggest that
abusers feel comfortable taking their victims to Planned Parenthood. We are therefore requesting an investigation
into Title X recipients, particularly Planned Parenthood, to determine how
widespread this failure is and if there are other instances where Planned
Parenthood failed in its duty to report suspected child abuse to local
authorities and to HHS.”
“Members have
requested that HHS turn over records regarding all incidents of Planned
Parenthood’s Title X recipients’ failures to report suspected sexual abuse of
minors in their care, records of the steps taken to bring recipients into
compliance with reporting laws, and documentation of any disciplinary actions,”
according to a statement about the letter released by LA. “Since 1999, federal regulations have made
clear the expectation that organizations that receive federal Title X ‘family
planning’ grants follow state laws mandating the reporting of suspected child sexual
abuse and rape,” continued the statement. “Planned Parenthood is the largest recipient
of Title X funding, receiving about $60 million annually through the program. It is also the nation’s largest abortion
provider. In 2015, 474 of nearly 650
Planned Parenthood facilities received Title X funding.”
The first of LA’s investigative report
videos provides an introduction to the project and an overview of what to
expect in its future installments, including documented cases, the testimony of
former abortion industry insiders, two of LA’s own previous undercover
investigations, the lies PP has told in response to the allegations, and what
consequences the offending personnel have faced, if any. The group has also released Part 2 in the
series - “Recorded Cases.” It details
how the abortion giant’s refusal to report men who brought in girls as young as
age twelve for abortions enabled their abusers to continue raping them. LA has documented many of these cases here and
here.
LA says that a later installment will
quote former PP insiders such as Sue Thayer and Catherine Adair, who say the
organization actively discouraged reporting of children being brought in by
their apparent abusers.
Last year, a separate investigative
report by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) exposed PP’s selling of aborted
baby body parts. [Read my blog posting
of Wednesday, June 14, 2017 – “Pro-Life Groups Urge DOJ to Investigate Planned
‘Murderhood’”.]
“Planned Parenthood
has actively participated in illegal activity, selling the body parts of
aborted babies in exchange for profit,” said Abby Johnson, a former abortion
advocate and PP director who is now a pro-life activist. “They’ve lied to the very women they purport
to fight for. I saw it firsthand when I
worked for the abortion giant and yet, they still manage to obtain over half a
billion dollars a year in our tax dollars.”
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
Can anyone find any authorization in the Constitution for a nickel to be spent on PP? Any appropriation to PP is absolutely unconstitutional and those who vote for it are complicit in the murder of fellow American's. Where or where is the DOJ? Too busy continuing to cover for Hillary's lawlessness and conducting useless investigations.
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