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Paterno, Planned Parenthood, and pedophiles: part 2

Guest post by Faith and Meredith Kuzma

Go here to read Part 1 first.

Planned Parenthood has been involved in cover-ups of child sex trafficking in several states, including New Jersey, Virginia, and New York, and in Washington, D.C. In Ohio, Planned Parenthood was charged with failure to report incest, and the abuse went on for a year and a half and involved a second visit to Planned Parenthood. The judge found that Planned Parenthood had violated Ohio’s informed consent laws.

Clinic workers, teachers, and others are required by state law to report child abuse. Although the child in this case informed Planned Parenthood employees, the nation’s most well-known and “trusted” abortion provider failed to report the abuse. According to the child’s attorney, Planned Parenthood “completely ignored her cry for help.” Hurley said that his client was “raped on many occasions over the next one and one-half years.”

Photo credit: Elvert Barnes on Flickr

The assumption is often that the abortionist is protecting female sexual rights. Apparently, Planned Parenthood representatives worry that the victims would not acknowledge the sexual abuse to them if they reported it, as they are legally obligated to do (“Planned”). However, failure to report child abuse is illegal. Even when it means perpetuating sex crimes by not reporting them, Planned Parenthood has proved itself more interested in defending sexualityism than in actually providing the kind of care that the women who come to them need.

The highest priority in a society is always the protection of children. Politicians, pro-abortion lobbyists, and the media fall in line with Planned Parenthood’s silent promotion of sexualityism, thereby indirectly colluding with the abortion giant’s refusal to inform authorities when they learn of pedophiles and child molesters.

Other states where Planned Parenthood has covered up statutory rape of children include Alabama, Washington, New Hampshire, and Kansas. Drawing their wagons into cooperative business and political arrangements sometimes called abortion cartels, “Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation have made a conscious decision to conceal the sexual exploitation of children and protect the men who commit these crimes.” Rather than playing its much-celebrated role of journalistic watchdog, contemporary mainstream media has been complicit by not investigating this scandal – preferring instead to close ranks with the abortion providers. Americans continue to be presented with the unblemished visage of Planned Parenthood as presented by the mainstream media and political figures as powerful as the president.

Since Americans do not generally turn a blind eye to pedophile activity, the stonewalling mainstream media can rightly be called to account for its refusal to scrutinize Planned Parenthood. And this despite recent calls to investigate the abortion giant. An attorney who has worked in Arizona with the state’s Right to Life organization commented: “The pattern of abuse of underage children is widespread and knows no geographical boundaries.”

Because the cover-up is so widespread and entrenched in the culture of Planned Parenthood, Americans are dealing with an icon of our modern era. To recognize that failing to report the actions of sexual predators is not just the crime of one football coach, one athletic program, or one university, Americans need to realize that not reporting pedophile activity represents a systematic (not isolated) problem within Planned Parenthood. This should warrant the full disclosure of how covering up sex crimes occurs at Planned Parenthood.

Of course, to avoid that, Planned Parenthood has done and will do everything in its power to block investigations. In Kansas, for instance, records were destroyed, trial was delayed, and counter-accusations were directed at the prosecutor, Phil Kline. Although he was cleared of all wrongdoing, Phil Kline’s career has suffered. After a new prosecutor was elected, the investigation was essentially dropped, effectively shielding Planned Parenthood from further public scrutiny.

In our current culture, there is a reluctance to look too closely at the problems with Planned Parenthood. After all, Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger, along with other “reproductive rights” leaders, has been heralded as achieving success for women. In 2008, despite her connections to eugenics, Sanger was featured in a 2008 Smithsonian exhibit (Ertelt). Such celebrations of “progress” for women make it almost inevitable that Planned Parenthood’s troubling practice of effectively ignoring the sexual abuse of minors will be concealed. In fact, despite the recurrence of these problems, most Americans have no idea that Planned Parenthood routinely fails to report the sex abuse of children.

Not only politically speaking, but legally and rhetorically speaking as well, there is such a powerful multi-layered zone defense around Planned Parenthood that peaceful protesters have been arrested for stepping across an abortion clinic’s property line to provide information to women about the negative effects of abortion. For Americans – who don’t like mixing politics and religion anyway – the incessant labeling of abortion protesters as “fanatics” suggests that only extremists question activities at abortion clinics. Together with the nonstop mainstream media presentation of Planned Parenthood as the superhero in the fight for women’s “reproductive rights,” this name-calling hampers the normally undaunted American interest in safeguarding minors.

Far from being an untarnished defender of women’s health, Planned Parenthood partners with sexual abusers. Recent undercover investigations have exposed the fact that protecting sex crimes has become business as usual at Planned Parenthood. As a result, Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, observes that the ever-present defensive zone around Planned Parenthood is tightening: “Now that Planned Parenthood is vulnerable and almost hysterical with panic, liberals are circling the wagons, understanding that any more slip-ups could mean the end of their federal gravy train.” In 2010, that gravy train amounted to $487.4 million in government revenue, or $1.3 million per day (Government). Most Americans are not aware that the amount of federal funding for the abortion mega-store Planned Parenthood is so high, and they would be especially alarmed to know that tax dollars are going to an organization that hides pedophile activity.

Despite the reluctance of most Americans to talk about religion and politics – let alone trespass on what has been declared the inviolable “reproductive rights” of women – the abuse of minors has gone on long enough to invite a class-action suit. Americans may value an ideal of women’s reproductive freedom, but they also dislike the self-protective business model seen at Planned Parenthood clinics. In spite of its well-fortified position, such egregious problems as covering up child molestation will sound the game-ending whistle for the abortion mega-mart. Americans do not seek sexualityism at any cost, and once news gets out, Americans will not abide the widespread protection of pedophiles.

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  • ProTruth2

    Although he was cleared of all wrongdoing, Phil Kline’s career has suffered.

    When was he cleared of all wrongdoing? The last I heard a disciplinary panel had found that he repeatedly violated ethical guidelines against “engaging in false or dishonest conduct.” Final resolution of the case is pending before the Kansas Supreme Court.

    http://www.lawreport.org/ViewStory.aspx?StoryID=7845
    http://operationrescue.org/pdfs/Kline%20Disciplinary%20Report.pdf

    • Faithkuz

      Phill Kline was investigated and cleared of politically-motivated false accusations intended to deflect attention away from Planned Parenthood. According to Kathy Ostrowski, this “‘payback’ virtually promised by Justice Carol Beier… [her] animus against Kline was so out of bounds in the majority opinion that the two most senior justices backed away from Beier’s “threatened penalties” to Kline and complained that the ruling had been used “as a platform from which it can denigrate Kline for actions that it cannot find to have been in violation of any law.”
      http://kansansforlife.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/more-anti-kline-bias-found-on-kansas-supreme-court-panel/ As for key evidence (shredded by then Governor Sebelius’s health department and her attorney general’s office) there is record of an investigation concerning child molestation. Thomas Williams, a 20- year FBI veteran, investigated Kansas abortion clinics for failure to report child rape. Despite delay tactics, statistics from SRS (Social Rehabilitation Services) overseen by Sebelius, Williams determined the abortion providers were “inclined to violate [the] legally required reporting requirement” (3). State records over the course of a year and a half (Jan. 2002 to June 2003) indicate that although the number of underage abortions statewide was registered as 166, abortion clinics reported only 4 abuse cases–162 went unreported (2). The document further cites an article from the Kansas City Star from June 19, 2003. In it, Peter Brownlie, Chief Executive Officer of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-America stated: “‘cases of girls who seek to end pregnancies resulting from consensual sex need not be reported’” (3). Abortion clinics, however, are legally required to report sex offenses involving minors because, as noted in reference to the Lanning source cited in our article, when not reported, abuse continues and in some cases spreads to other victims. http://plannedparenthoodcorruption.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/exhibit-20-redacted.pdf

      • Detroiter327

        Are you able to distinguish which of the unreported cases are incest/molestation vs. high schoolers having sex? If the girl was not a victim of rape (statutory or otherwise) and was simply having sex with a boyfriend her same age, why would it be classified as a sex offense?

        • ProTruth2

          Are you able to distinguish which of the unreported cases are incest/molestation vs. high schoolers having sex?

          The answer to that is ‘sort of.’

          There are two reasons for the discrepancy between the abuse numbers that Kline says were reported, and the number of abortions performed on minors. The first is that Kansas categorized consensual sex between minors aged 14 and 15 as against the law, but didn’t define it as ‘sex abuse’ unless there were other factors involved. The law was rewritten during Kline’s time in office and he interpreted it to mean that medical providers had to report consensual sex between 14- and 15-year olds as sex abuse, but there was a judicial injunction against the enactment of his interpretation. (His decision to withhold that information from a grand jury convened to investigate the whole issue was one reason that a juror from the grand jury filed an ethics complaint against him when it was over.) Kline’s associate, Mr. Williams, attempted to get the reporting statistics from the state social services agency (SRS) by requesting reports of ‘sex abuse’ against minors and implying it was tied to a state effort to track sex offenders. The SRS then produced the records that fit the inquiry they thought was being pursued, which did not include ‘Romeo and Juliet’ cases.

          Hence the discrepancy between the numbers of abuse cases reported and the number of abortions preformed. (The SRS also provided more cases later, but Kline had obtained the narrative he wanted and decided it wasn’t important to inform the court of the revised numbers for several months.) So that’s one reason why there’s a contrast between the number of abortions and the number of reported abuse cases that Kline has been claiming. The evidence is (and I’ll get to that later) is that clinics were reporting consensual sex between minors, but that didn’t show up in Kline’s initial fishing trip because the SRS was led to believe that wasn’t the investigation was about.

          A second reason that Kline ‘found’ fewer examples of rape cases being reported to the SRS than there were abortions reported is that some girls were from out of state, and thus the abuse was not reported to the Kansas SRS. A big deal was made of the fact an abortion had been performed on a 10-year-old girl in the Tiller clinic, but no such report had been made to the SRS. Kline’s associate, the Mr. Williams mentioned in the post above, testified in court that the rape had gone unreported by the clinic. Williams knew that was false because a year earlier he had spoken to the authorities in the girl’s home state and found that the rape had been reported to them and the abuser had been prosecuted.

          My understanding is that we don’t know exactly how many of Kline’s ‘unreported rapes’ were actually reported in different states or were reported to social services but not classified as sex abuse because of the age of the minors involved, and the reason we don’t know this is that Kline declined to cooperate with his successor as DA when she tried to investigate. We do know that Kline never charged anyone with failing to report a ‘child sexual assault,’ and when the DA looked at the files she did have–those from the Tiller case–she found that all cases sex between minors had been reported to the appropriate state or local child protective services.

          To get all of this you have to read the disciplinary report against Kline, which is very long, but a lot of it is covered in a much shorter statement by Kline’s successor as DA.

          http://operationrescue.org/pdfs/Kline%20Disciplinary%20Report.pdf
          http://www.sedgwickcounty.org/da/criminal_media/2007/final%20jan%2010%20tiller%20media%20release.pdf

          • Detroiter327

            Excellent job. Thank you for answering and filling in a lot of the holes left by the original author.

      • ProTruth2

        Phill Kline was investigated and cleared of politically-motivated false accusations intended to deflect attention away from Planned Parenthood.

        Well, if you were to read the article that you linked, you would see it says that “Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline is appealing a ruling last year by the state’s Board for Discipline of Attorneys that his Kansas law license be revoked for “misleading” actions undertaken when he worked to prosecute illegal late-term abortions.” If he had been cleared of wrongdoing, then he would not be appealing the ruling, would he?

        The “vindication” you are referring to is a pro-life website’s editorializing about a specific ruling in 2008, in which the state Supreme Court actually said that Kline had erred in his handling of records. And if you were to read the articles that I linked, you would see that disciplinary board’s recommendation that his license be suspended was issued in 2011. Because events that happened in 2011 occurred after 2008, an article written in 2008 is not evidence Mr. Kline currently stands vindicated. Because he doesn’t. The most recent investigation found that he engaged in misconduct above and beyond the specific issue that the 2008 ruling addressed.

        • Detroiter327

          Thank you for pointing this out! Unless “cleared of all wrongdoing” was meant to be sarcastic, there should obviously be a retraction or rewrite.

  • Richard

    Just to be clear, Planned Parenthood isn’t actually being accused of engaging directly in pedophilia but of failing to comply with state regulations to report suspected cases of child abuse. If you really want to take a stand against pedophilia, the Catholic Church is your more apropos target. Also to be clear, Planned Parenthood prevents many more abortions through its providence of birth control than it does in its actual commission of them.

    • Violet Black

      Planned Parenthood protects pedophiles and so did(/does??) the Catholic Church; two wrongs don’t make a right and it would be refreshing to see the media and the public treat them the same when they do the same things. Both of them could stand to enact serious protective reforms for the sake of those who rely on them. Planned Parenthood, simply enough, needs to start reporting what has happened to its patients. The Church has to submit known abusers to the lay authorities instead of pretending recidivism doesn’t exist and hiding them in another community–and somehow or other they need to stop blithely letting Schrodinger’s child molester get alone with the kids. That’s got to be feasible, right? At least the Church (presumably) wouldn’t lose income if people stopped molesting.

      Sorry if I’m speaking too obnoxiously about Catholicism. No offense to all the Catholics out there!

  • http://www.facebook.com/jeff.tilley.35 Jeff Tilley

    Any political party that would embrace Planned Parenthood is morally bankrupt.

    • Richard

      Any political party that would embrace compulsory child birth is the Republican Party.

  • Faithkuz

    The point of the article is the dynamic at work: failure of the media to serve its watch dog role, politically-motivated attacks of a prosecutor who did attempt to lead an investigation, and minimizations of illegal action of non-reporting in states such as Kansas (even here, in the reference to child rape as Romeo and Juliet couples). There is a failure to look critically at Planned Parenthood because it is perpetually held up as an upholder of reproductive rights. The failure to gain prosecutions reflects the reluctance to enforce the law against what is regarded as a civil rights icon. In Kansas, in particular, there was a co-conspiracy to protect Planned Parenthood by then governor Sebelius (she controlled the KDH Kansas Department of Health and the Environment) Sebelius appointed Attorney General Steve Six with the helped of, you guessed it, the Sebeliue-stacked Kansas Supreme Court — involving the destruction and falsifying of documents. Despite their efforts to obstruct justice, two judges found probable cause that Planned Parenthood committed felonies.

    • ProTruth2

      The point of the article is the dynamic at work.

      Why do you believe that justifies the publication of demonstrably false statements?

      even here, in the reference to child rape as Romeo and Juliet couples.

      Below is a direct quotation from Mr. Kline’s instructions to a grand jury on December 17, 2007 [emphasis is added]. It may be found on pp. 103-104 of the hearing report linked above.

      Now, there are different crimes, depending upon the age of the child and the age of the perpetrator, in Kansas that apply. If the child is 13 years of age or younger, this is called rape. No matter what the age of the person engaged in that sexual interaction with that child, this child at this age is deemed to be unable to consent….Fourteen or 15, it’s still a crime, but it’s a lesser crime. If the perpetrator or partner is within four years of age and it’s truly a conduct that they agree to and there’s not coercion or force or deception, it’s called involuntary sexual relations. We call that the Romeo and Juliet law. If they are within four years of age and it’s two teens, it’s – it’s voluntary sexual relations.

      So if you disagree with Mr. Kline’s use of the term ‘Romeo and Juliet law,’ please take it up with him.

      • Biblicalfulfillment

        It’s not that Americans DON’T want to talk about this, it’s that you really have no idea how corruption takes place. if you do some independent research, learn what a gag-order is then look up something Christians call “hate speech” bill that by now is enforcable if you violate, then go watch a video on youtube called ” the abortion matrix”.

        • Biblicalfulfillment

          replying to my own comment, don’t mind me, but just a simple question: Where does anyone get this idea (however stupid) that humans are self-replicating, asexual beings as if we can magically produce ourselves by splitting in half? last I read, it literally took an act of (not any god you want, not a manmade god either) The one true God Almighty to send the holy spirit to make a human pregnant without…any sexual act, and that reason was because mankind is, was and continues to be inheritly wicked. Jesus Christ was sent to repurify mankind. so where’s the confusion???

  • Concerned citizen

    A story broke yesterday http://bit.ly/R1g8PL involving a local resident whom was head sheriff of warren county and admitted to molesting 8 boys and was caught in a sting, yet he only did 9 months county jail, is not a registered sex offender and has been collecting a pension for 20 years from the state. this story needs attention.