De-fund the predators of Planned Parenthood
Republicans have had the opportunity to de-fund Planned Parenthood many times over the years and failed. Do they have the will and the courage to pay more than lip service now? In the wake of the Philadelphia Horror and related “women’s health” butcher cases, the momentum to strip the abortion industry racket of taxpayer funding is stronger than ever. Over the past several years, some brave undercover journalists at Live Action Films — long chronicled on this blog — have repeatedly exposed the group’s willingness to aid and abet sexual predators, skirt disclosure laws, and perpetuate a criminal enterprise at the expense of pregnant mothers and their unborn children’s health, safety, and lives.
My column today recaps the shameful history of Planned Parenthood predation — and points out that the open, systematic undermining of parental authority by the abortion radicals deserves as much scrutiny as what they do on hidden cameras.
More on PP’s sabotaging of parental rights here.
Action item: Sign the AUL De-fund Planned Parenthood petition here.
Action item: On Monday, there will be a nationwide vigil for victims. Please support these brave whistleblowers standing up for life.
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De-fund the predators of Planned Parenthood
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2011
Thanks to the persistent investigative work of young pro-life journalists, Planned Parenthood’s ruthless, money-grubbing colors are on full, fresh YouTube display. But as shocking as the illicit new videos from Live Action Films are, the routine, parental authority-sabotaging advice the taxpayer-funded abortion racket gives teens every day deserves more front-page headline news, too.
Live Action is a California-based “new media, investigative and educational organization committed to the protection and respect of all human life” led by Internet undercover pioneer Lila Rose. The group’s latest video footage at abortion clinics in Perth Amboy, N.J., the Bronx and four cities in Virginia shows Planned Parenthood officials aiding and abetting individuals posing as criminal sex traffickers seeking abortions for underage girls.
Abortion activists first attacked the videos as “doctored,” then claimed they had already taken steps to rectify problems at the targeted clinics, then fired a worker after the tapes had been released and finally denied any systemic failures while patting Planned Parenthood on the back for ordering new re-training measures for their employees this week.
Those who dismiss the scandal as an anomaly are in denial or abjectly ignorant.
In 2007, while an undergrad at UCLA, Rose visited a local campus Planned Parenthood clinic posing as a 14-year-old minor seeking an abortion after being impregnated by a 23-year-old man. California’s mandatory reporting laws require abortion providers to report statutory rape involving girls under the age of 16. Rose secretly captured video of her visit in which the staff advised her to “figure out a birth-date that works,” to obtain the abortion and avoid getting the man in trouble with the law. Instead of vowing to do more to protect girls from predators, Planned Parenthood threatened to sue Rose to shut her up.
That same year, a teenager came forward in Ohio to blow the whistle on how a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Cincinnati had ignored her cries for help after her father — who had been molesting her for three years from the age of 13 — forced her to have an abortion. She told an abortion staffer, who was required by state law to report suspected abuse to police. But the women’s health provider so beloved by liberals on Capitol Hill did nothing.
Another Ohio teenage victim of sexual abuse filed suit against Planned Parenthood after the soccer coach who abused her at age 14 forced her to undergo an abortion. “Although she used a junior-high school I.D. and the coach, 21, paid with a credit card and driver’s license,” the Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune reported, “Planned Parenthood failed to report the abuse.”
Pro-choice radicals assert that butchers like Philadelphia Horror abortion doc Kermit Gosnell — charged along with his baby-killing death squad last month with multiple counts of murder, infanticide, conspiracy, abuse of corpse, theft and other offenses — are an exception and that young girls and women who choose Planned Parenthood are “safe.”
Tell that to the Washington, D.C., family of 13-year-old Shantese Butler, who was left permanently injured and infertile after a botched Planned Parenthood abortion. Students for Life of America reported that Shantese was left with “severe abdominal bleeding, severe vaginal injury, severe injury to the cervix, significant uterine perforation and a small bowel tear.” In addition, parts of the unborn child were found inside Shantese’s abdomen.
And don’t forget the Nebraska Planned Parenthood clinic that refused to disclose the terms of a settlement with another victim whose botched abortion resulted in a perforated uterus, massive blood loss, an emergency hysterectomy, permanent infertility, seizures and lifelong pain and suffering. According to the suit obtained by Life News, the woman told the abortionist and his assistants to stop, but was told: “We can’t stop.” The Planned Parenthood employees held her down to complete the procedure.
(More forgotten victims of choice here.)
None of this is disclosed on Planned Parenthood’s informational website aimed at teenage girls, of course. Instead, the group aggressively advises pregnant girls under 18 on how to avoid telling their parents about visiting their abortion clinics through a process known as “judicial bypass.”
Through its “award-winning” website Teenwire, Planned Parenthood ideologues normalize teen sexual activity, peddle their “family planning” services, whitewash the physical and moral consequences of abortion, downplay the long-term psychological consequences and circumvent parental authority at every opportunity. What other enterprise receives taxpayer support to entice children to hide their health decisions from their own mothers and fathers?
Planned Parenthood is a $1-plus billion business that rakes in one-third of its budget from government grants and contracts at both the state and federal levels. Congress has interrogated banking, energy, health insurance, tobacco and oil execs — treating them like serial killers before the cameras. When will they finally de-fund a corrupt industry that has real blood on its hands?
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I knew you have to go to bible thumping to make your argument, and Old Testament bible thumping at that.
You lose, Swede. You get 25% of the vote, max, with that argument, and your candidate loses in a landslide. Americans are not biblical literalists.
And so real babies continue to be slaughtered en masse in the womb.
Also, Reagan could talk about ‘life’ and get away with it because people who wanted to agree with him for issues of freedom and free enterprise and a strong America could rationalize that he was talking about the babies in the womb, not the first two weeks before the baby even has a brain.
He knew your position was political poison.
Meanwhile, the argument has degenerated as I predicted, with Chap beating the crap out of you (in the eyes of the average voter) even though you are on the side of restricting abortions more and he votes for the guys who want to make it even easier.
This is what always happens. This is why an issue we should be winning hands down always gains the Democrats votes nationally.
As I said Roland, if you deny a Creator we don’t have much to discuss, but you are in the minority in the US. I did not say or imply a candidate must hold the conception view, just be opposed to abortion on demand and recognize the unborn as human life – and of course give back the oversight of children’s well being to their parents. That is not political poison, but the majority report. Reagan did not define when an infant gains rights, but insisted the “unborn” are human beings. Good enough for me. BTW, I oppose using this or any other single issue as a litmus test for a candidate – it’s just one indicator of values and character.
One 501(c)(3) I support and serve on the board of is a crisis pregnancy center. I can’t say which or where as it’s been the target of some moonbattery. The ladies at the center provide and arrange counselling, support, housing, prenatal and ongoing care, nursing, scholarships, job skills training, childcare and tons of love to young unwed mothers. No condemnation or coercion, just encouragement and offering the means for a young girl to choose life. They started long before I came along, and to date they have saved more than 100 lives. One of their first children rescued just received her MD from Emory, and provides medical services and resources to the center. I think that’s just freakin awesome!
So talk is cheap. I can’t change the law so I do what I can. You?
chap – we just do not use the term “murder”. It’s counter productive and incindiery. My wife had an abortion when she was 15, and 40 years later still has nightmares about the child and other related psyche problems. You think I’d call her a murderer? Please.
Swede, that is the dumbest logic you have offered on anything yet. Why don’t you read AND UNDERSTAND what I actually wrote. Are you really that dumb or just dishonest?
If you were being intellectually consistent, you would. Even if you do love her and even if she regrets that decision every single day, both of which I have no doubt.
It’s the semantics Phil. “Safe, legal and rare” is Barry’s shtick which he plagerized from Clinton. It means abortion on demand, and pumping millions into “Planned Child Abuse and Infanticide”, et al.
The dissagreement is not all or nothing as you suggest. The official Catholic position is no abortions, but the majority of professing Catholics allow for danger to the mother/or rape, incest or danger to the mother – as do most Evangelicals. If that’s what you mean by safe, legal and rare – say so, but lose the progressive semantics. It’s a lie – like BarryCare saves money. Explain how reducing abortion levels as you suggest is “doable” when it would require 2/3 of both chambers plus the president or a reversal by the increasingly stacked SCOTUS. That is why I and others are doing what we can. We are adamently PRO-CHOICE. If you give them a way, more kids than you think will choose to keep their children.
Bingo chappy. The victims are not just the infants. The number of girls who are emotionally scarred for life is staggering. I come by my position largely because of her. She believes she took the life of her own child, and would literally give her own life to take it back. She can’t. Even a teen mother knows better deep inside if given the truth and a chance. It’s not tissue, it’s a human.
Appologies if I’ve been obnoxous here. The events of the last month have disgusted and angered us more than the whole Obamy HopenChange circus. A culture more concerned about polar bears and trees than its own children has lost its soul. /rant
Welcome to “life” as valued, and as practiced by liberals. Sickening. And the fact that I am forced to fund this murder-mill as a taxpayer, is disgusting and should be illegal.
The Obama Quote that will stick in my mind is his Reference to “Being Punished with a Baby”
Damn shame that his Mother was not on contraceptives has been my thought for the past two years.
We are as a Nation being Punished with Her Baby.
Great column, but… this war is never going to be won by using logic.
Well speaking for myself. My girl friend had an abortion about 3 weeks before I was drafted in the Army. I was against it, but I was not going to abandon her and helped her pay for it.
I have regretted it ever since, and chose to never have children. I could not think of it without thinking of that innocent victim of my own callousness and carelessness.
Where is Obamacare?
If only the MSM were as nit-picky about details as Chap…..