Wednesday, Jan. 28,2009 8:22 p.m.
The dust has barely settled on Planned Parenthood and its previous
brush with the law in Bloomington before the organization finds itself
in another legal scandal, this time in Indianapolis.
You may remember that in December 2008, Live Action Films, an
anti-choice group based in California, released video of an undercover
sting operation in Bloomington. The video showed a 20-year-old woman
posing as a 13-year-old pregnant girl after sexual relations with a
31-year-old man. In the video, an employee at the S. College Avenue
clinic is seen advising the woman to lie about her age in order to
protect her from being reported to Child Protective Services. In
Indiana, any sex act between an adult and a person younger than 14
years must be reported to the department or a law enforcement agency.
Although the employee was fired, Planned Parenthood is still dealing
with the attack on its credibility, most notably in Indianapolis.
Indiana Health Commissioner Judith Monroe recently warned the clinic
there that its incomplete “terminated pregnancy reports” were grounds
for prosecution.
