John C. A. Bambenek ([info]bambenek) wrote,
@ 2004-12-03 09:40:00
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Planned Parenthood's Child Sex Abuse Cover-up
A truth the bears telling is that the dirty little secret in town is that it looks like Planned Parenthood covers up for child rape. Yes, you read that right. Here's the scoop.

Most of this you can read on the people who did the investigation at Child Predator, where you can read the report here. Here is what they did. They called up pretending to be a 13 year old. Said they were pregnant by an older man and wanted an abortion. For those of you that are slow, there is this thing called statutory rape, that pretty much anytime a 13 year old is pregnant, a crime has occurred, by definition. While there is precedent for immaculate conceptions I don't believe that has been successfully used as an affirmative defense. If you'd like to hear some tapes yourself, go here.

Further, there are federal criminal penalties for organizations to make money by destroying evidence of crimes. If a kid gets pregnant from her adult lover, the resultant child contains the DNA of both and near irrefutable evidence linking the man to the crime. For a low cost, you dirty old men out there can take your child lovers to Planned Parenthood to cover up your nefarious activities... To make matters worse, Planned Parenthood glorifies these kind of relationships. I don't know, maybe I'm old fashioned, but if I had a 13 year old daughter and she asks my opinion about 30 year olds asking her out, my answer would be to "just say no". If he can't get a woman his own age, he's got SOME kind of problem. This on the heels of several stories likethisof Planned Parenthood's long reknowned reputation of getting women killed who get abortions and trying to hide it and peddle other forms of junk science.

So I decided to get some more information to put some numbers to the stories...

Using a combination of public records of abortions on minors (age 12 to 15), Planned Parenthood's own research, and comparing the number of abuse reports made be medical professionals, the following is an estimate of the number of sex abuse cases per state that abortion providers covered up in the year 2000. (Not all states are represented because data was not complete for all 50):

State Number of child sex abuse cases unreported

Arizona 4054
California 25359
Florida 11364
Georgia 9240
Illinois 9792
Indiana 5961
Kansas 2958
Michigan 9432
Missouri 6888
New York 16106
North Carolina 7406
Ohio 10392
Pennsylvania 12989
Tennessee 5534
Texas 18077
Virginia 4911

For perpective, the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal entailed around 10,000 reports of sexual abuse covered up over the course of 50 years. This amount is roughly equal to the amount of sexual abuse cases covered up by Planned Parenthood in Ohio for only one year. Planned Parenthood's own research knows about the problem, as shown in Family Planning Perspectives July/August 1999 issue where it asserted data that mimics the results here (albeit with different conclusions. They know they are covering up child sex abuse because they make good money on it. If you are a dirty old man trolling for a girl friend in junior high, Planned Parenthood is your best friend.

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Updated 12/4/04 @ 2:50pm

Couple of quick updates, yes statutory rape ages very from state to state, your mileage will vary.

The cases of cover-up include not only abortion, but pregnancy treatment, STD Treatment, and other associated treatment that makes sexual activity obvious in that age group.

Sources Used:

2000 Census Bureau Data (# of people that age, percentage of sexual activity in that demographic, etc)
Family Planning Perspectives, April 1999 & Nov/Dec 2000
- "Facts in Brief - Teen Sex and Pregnancy"
"Age Differences Between Sexual Partners in the United States" - J. Darroch, D. Landy, and S. Oslak / Fammily Planning Perspectives, Jul/Aug 1999
USDOJ Report "Child Rape Victimes, 1992"
The National Women's Study quoted in CDC Rape Fact Sheet
"Sex and America's Teenagers" - Family Planning Perspectives, 1994
Article in Family Planning Perspectives by Patricia Donovan, Jan/Feb 1997
1997 Kaiser Family Foundation "Fact Sheet: Teenage Sexual and Reproductive Behavior in the United States"
CDC Abortion Surveillance reports
"Teenage Abortion and Pregnancy Statistics by State, 1996", Alan Guttmacher Institute
"Contraception Counts: State-by-State Information", Aug 1999, Alan Guttmacher Institute
FOIA requests to DHHS and the GAO
Planned Parenthood Annual Reports
Planned Parenthood Tax Returns
"Child Maltreatment 1999" - DHHS
"Age Differences Between Sexual Partners in the United States" Jul/Aug 1999, Family Planning Perspectives

Using all these sources, this study concluded that Planned Parenthood and like organizations fail to report cases of obvious child sex abuse (despite clear legal requirements to do so in many states) 84 to 88% of the time.

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Stats?
(Anonymous)
2004-12-03 05:14 pm UTC (link)
The report alleges "a covert survey." The script from this survey is nowhere to be found. The results of the survey remain unpublished. Do you have a location where the survey is detailed?

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Re: Stats?
[info]bambenek
2004-12-03 05:36 pm UTC (link)
The survey life dynamics did was a phone survey, I linked to some recordings. The state by state break down was a written study, it isn't on line.

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Re: Stats?
(Anonymous)
2004-12-03 06:27 pm UTC (link)
Thanks. I can't see the links in the template because of the color, but I found it now. Those are some interesting transcripts. I was always more interested in the statistics, or a full archive of the transcripts than I was in a subset of the transcripts. I guess that's not available.

I'm also interested in the research you did. I see you've reached some conclusions. Could you detail the methodoligy and the input data you used? Weblinks would be helpful, but if we've got to go to old-media primary sources, I've got a library here.

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Re: Stats?
[info]bambenek
2004-12-03 08:26 pm UTC (link)
I'm going to go back and put an update with where I got information and how I got from point A to point B. Some of it is FOIA request stuff and paper media, there MAY be online equivalents, but that's not where I got it from so I don't know.

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Re: Stats?
(Anonymous)
2004-12-03 09:00 pm UTC (link)
Let me ask a more direct question, then.

There were 61 abortions performed on patients under 15 years of age in Arizona. How did these 61 abortions yield a failure to report of 4054 cases?

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5212a1.htm

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Re: Stats?
[info]bambenek
2004-12-03 10:26 pm UTC (link)
Well according to data that was obtained from Alan Guttmacher, it was 178. But the point is how I came at the difference, and I probably glossed over that part of the analysis. It also includes girls that age who go to PP, et al, for pregnancy related services or STD treatment for cases in which obvious sexual contact occurred (i.e. not herpes of the mouth). I'll update in a bit on the exact methodology and sources.

But in retrospect, I admit that a quick read leads to the assumption that I was using strictly abortion statistics, I will clarify.

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Re: Stats?
(Anonymous)
2004-12-03 10:34 pm UTC (link)
On pins and needles. Forgive me if I don't exactly take you at what one might call "your word," if we were speaking. I'm very excited to get that data on "STD treatment for cases in which obvious sexual contact occurred," for women under 16 years of age. Did Planned Parenthood publish that, somewhere?

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Re: Stats?
[info]bambenek
2004-12-03 10:35 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I'm going to publish sources when I get the chance... just busy at work...

Is this my usual Chase bank critic? :)

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[info]ecuameg
2004-12-09 12:26 am UTC (link)
Hey there! I've found your blog...and we're mostly in agreement on something!

Just wanted to add that in addition to "destroying evidence of a crime" (and referring to a child that way disturbs me) many Planned Parenthood workers are probably covered under states' mandated reporter laws. In most states, health care workers, counselors, and teachers who become aware, through their work, of physical or sexual abuse of a minor are required by law to report that abuse. We're all required to read and sign a policy acknowledging our status as mandated reporters, so in contrast to laws about evidence, workers should be aware of these laws.

On a different note - the one major problem I have with your analysis is that we don't have (and often can't get) good data on who the sexual partners of these girls are. Research suggests that many of them are older. However, just knowing that a girl of that age is sexually active is not necessarily evidence of statutory rape or abuse. Some proportion of girls receiving services may have partners their own age, and no crime is being committed. Because of this, your estimates of unreported child sexual abuse are probably inflated. Data about the number of sexually active minors doesn't give us hard evidence about how many of them are being abused.

It would be hard to get accurate data on this. Workers may not ask about who the partner is. In addition, confidentiality agreements for health care wokers require that we tell clients that if we have information about abuse, we're required to report it. So a PP worker would have to tell a girl that before asking about her partner's age. A girl who doesn't want her case reported, or has been coached before hand, will not accurately report her partner's age.

Just my 2 cents.

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[info]bambenek
2004-12-09 04:16 pm UTC (link)
Wonders never cease... we agree! :)

There was a hearing in the Illinois legislature where the equivalent of the surgeon general of Illinois testified to that very fact, PP employees are mandatory reporters under Illinois law, as is true in most (but not all) states.

The data used in this case is from Planned Parenthood and their studies that break down age of girl vs age or partner and expands them up to the proportion of the number of girls PP sees. Their data also was cross-checked with the CDC and DOJ studies that had similar information, and PP's data matched up. So assuming that everyone's data is sound, then the number should actually be lowballed. The intention when doing the study was to estimate in the best possible light, so if there was a lower number, we used it. Though, as I read the law, at a certain age, the partner's age is irrelevant.

Of course, this only uses researched data and then estimates in the best possible light (which is pretty bad).

How would reporting in this case work? Well if a 12 year old comes in pregnant, DCFS should be called. The law says if there is reasonable suspicion, the authorities should be notified, and with a 12 year old, there is plenty of reasonable suspicion. PP's own data suggests the younger the girl, the older the partner, they admit knowing what's up.

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[info]ecuameg
2004-12-09 05:22 pm UTC (link)
Hi again!

The data used in this case is from Planned Parenthood and their studies that break down age of girl vs age or partner and expands them up to the proportion of the number of girls PP sees.

Good to know, and that does make your analysis more compelling.

The practical problem with carrying this out is, in part, the current situation with DCFS. Both here and when I worked with kids in the DC area, DCFS was overwhelmed. Caseworkers had double, sometimes triple, the recommended caseload for social workers, they had a huge backlog of cases for investigation,and their general policy was not to take a report unless there was an identifiable perpetrator, because nothing would be done unless they knew who to investigate. Sometimes they wouldn't even open a case then (I've got some real horror stories). So, if a young girl refuses to identify her partner, or claims that it was someone her own age, DCFS is unlike to pursue the matter further.

PP workers still are supposed to call and report it, which I doubt they do. However, if they do call, they may be told on the phone that no report will be filed, so these cases would show up as 'unreported.' Again, I doubt PP is doing their job here, but even if they called DCFS for every case, it's very likely that not much would be done about it.

Any thoughts on increasing funding to DCFS? :)

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[info]bambenek
2004-12-09 07:50 pm UTC (link)
Well, in theory, DCFS should notate every report they get, even if they don't investigate. They may not be doing that, and that would be a scandal in and of itself, but the tapes confirm that PP isn't reporting either.

As far as DCFS funding, I'm not sure what it's like in DC, but I've not heard good things here in Champaign about them from attorneys in town. Look at the problem, sure, throwing money at a problem I think is a bad idea unless that's really what it takes.

Heck, since we are dealing with criminal matters, having the police deal with it instead is a solution too.

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(Anonymous)
2004-12-22 05:26 am UTC (link)
Why comment on my blog and direct me to this?

Planned Parenthood does what they do. When I was 21, I dated a girl that was 16. Should I have been thrown in jail? She didn't get pregnant, but we were 'being responsible' and using birth control.

You lump to much into your figures trying to prove some heinous and diabolical end. I question your motives and your use of 'statistics'. I'd like to see the 'lumps' pulled out separate before I'd have any faith in your version of the truth.

It seems to me that pro-life people worry so much about the fetus being 'born' and after it's born you couldn't be bothered with concerns like mental health, environmental quality and the amount of pollution that these children are forced to be brought up in. Let alone the idea that any girl that goes to a doctor (or Planned Parenthood) for any kind of gynecological service is some kind of cheap slut.

There are larger issues in this world and I feel sorry that more people just can't see them through the froth whipped up by religious zealots and their pro-industry backers...

We all end up losing...

People that force pregant girls and women to have children and then abandon them after the child is born do more disservice to women and the human race then Planned Parenthood!

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[info]bambenek
2004-12-22 05:53 am UTC (link)
The laws of every state are clear. Having sex with minors while being an adult is wrong. Yes, you should have gone to jail. You have my sources, redo the research if you want.

PP's own research confirms this problem. It is remarkably easy to "adandon" a child that you don't want. There is a huge waiting list for infants. Many groups and some churches have made the stand that they will take any child and cover the medical expenses of delivering it.

But to be honest, we'd prefer a society that doesn't use little girls as sex toys for adults who should be able to get someone their own age.

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