Abortion clinics breaking law

Once again, Planned Parenthood is trapped in the middle of a mucky situation. In his Aug. 12 article entitled, "The Deal with Older Guys," The Weekly Standard writer Eric Felten describes how Life Dynamics, an abortion watchdog group with a history of catching the abortion industry in criminal activity, is suing the notorious abortion provider for failing to report cases of statutory rape. \nLife Dynamics taped hundreds of phone conversations between a caller who impersonated a 13-year-old girl and Planned Parenthood clinic workers. The undercover caller told the workers she was possibly pregnant by a 22-year-old man (the phone calls were made from Texas, where state law does not prohibit recording telephone calls without the other party's consent). Out of the 614 phone calls taped, 516 (80 percent) reveal clinic employees who outright disregarded or concealed knowledge of statutory rape.\nMark Crutcher, the president of Life Dynamics, said this is evidence that Planned Parenthood uses taxpayer money to provide abortions to minor children without reporting sexual abuse. If Planned Parenthood starts reporting these cases now, Crutcher said they will, "have a real problem…authorities may see that as an admission that they knew they were always supposed to report. If they don't start reporting they'll be continuing in their illegal activity."\nThis is a real problem. Parental consent for an abortion is a requirement in about 75 percent of the states. Planned Parenthood is covering up cases of statutory rape and violating parental consent laws.\nLiberals like Hillary Clinton, though, insist that the governmentally run school system (and consequently, groups like Planned Parenthood) should "parent" children about sex. \nTheir mantra argues that kids will have sex anyway and parents might discipline the children for it. This is backwards. \nThe number of sexually active teens skyrocketed after sex education began in schools. Also, parents naturally have an emotional attachment and responsibility for their children. Abortion industries do not. Some lazy parents, though, have willingly allowed the schools and Planned Parenthood to take over. For them, it just seemed easier to let a teacher or abortion worker tell their children about sex than to do it themselves. \nReturning to the "old-fashioned" way of doing things would be an uphill battle. Today, Planned Parenthood regularly barges into classrooms and recruits young children (sometimes at an unbelievably early age) to be sexually active, assuring the youngsters that such behavior is normal and great -- as long as the kids wear protection. A few years later, not surprisingly, Planned Parenthood will have an entourage of familiar customers seeking abortions. Abortions, mind you, are a big cash cow for Planned Parenthood.\nAbortions have deep moral, emotional, spiritual and oftentimes physical consequences. Although no one is justified in taking the life of an unborn child, teenage and pre-teen girls are the least qualified to be making such a decision. Planned Parenthood is wrong to sidestep parents and the government by providing minors with abortions and not reporting cases of sexual abuse. \nPlanned Parenthood, though, even goes so far as to try and convince young ones that sexual relationships with adults can be a good thing (see www.teenwire.com). Planned Parenthood is blatantly claiming that they, a commercial organization who is willing to cover up sexual abuse in order to perform more abortions and enlist more customers, should help teens, not parents. \nPlanned Parenthood deserves the harshest penalty possible. \nSchools should bar Planned Parenthood from brainwashing their pupils any longer, and parents should resume their parental duties.