Planned Parenthood has a lot to cover up. The video released yesterday at LiveAction.org reveals that at Planned Parenthood of Central New Jersey a clinic manager was willing to aid and abet a pimp who ran an underage prostitution ring. Planned Parenthood’s cooperation with sexual abuse is not new–We have documented it before.
From sex abuse cover up to sex trafficking cover up, we’ve seen Planned Parenthood’s willingness to repeatedly violate the mandatory reporting laws for sexual abuse and send young girls back into the arms of abusers. We’ve documented it in 11 different clinics now (www.liveaction.org/monalisa).
PP’s response to the release of the video? First, they claimed the footage was a “hoax” because it was “highly edited.” Live Action released the full footage:
Then Planned Parenthood used the contrived back-up plan they hatched last week, claiming they had reported the sex traffickers immediately following Live Action’s undercover visits to their clinics. But the undercover footage tells quite a different story. No shock, no outrage, no report, only a clinic manager working with the pimp and prostitute to enable their prostitution ring of underage girls.
By Tuesday night we get news that PP has effectively thrown their employee under the bus and fired her. Now why would they do that if she and the others had reported the abuse, like they claim?
The visual evidence speaks for itself. And there’s more to come. Planned Parenthood is scrambling to silence our story and evidence. But in the end, the truth will get out.
Read Live Action’s statement from this morning here.
Meanwhile, the anti-trafficking advocates speak out in response to the video:
Jeffrey J. Barrows, D.O., M.A. (Bioethics)
Founder & Executive Director, Gracehaven
Director, Christian Trafficking Shelter Assoc
“As a healthcare professional actively fighting human trafficking, I know that traffickers will often take their victims to clinics to obtain abortions or STI testing. I find it appalling that there are people working at Planned Parenthood who are willing to help traffickers exploit young girls, but even more horrifying to realize they are being paid with my tax dollars!”
Statement of Steven Wagner
President and Founder, the Renewal Forum
Former Director, Human Trafficking Program, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
“The ‘Live Action’ video, filmed at a clinic in New Jersey, is profoundly disturbing. It shows a putative health care provider willing to collaborate with a human trafficker in the sexual exploitation of a child. Under U.S. federal law, any juvenile (under 18) who is subjected to commercial sexual exploitation is a victim of human trafficking. Under our legal system, we hold that no child can give informed consent to engage in prostitution. Similarly, no child who is trapped in a situation of commercial sexual exploitation can give informed consent for an abortion, or a regime of contraception. Yet the health care provider in this video readily offers to provide the pimp’s victims with abortions and contraception. Whatever the legal obligation this health care provider has under state law to report the serial sexual abuse of this child, the moral obligation of anyone encountering a juvenile victim of commercial sexual exploitation is to assist the child to escape or at least to alert law enforcement officials. To provide abortions or contraception to a child who is being sexually exploited is to sustain that exploitation – just the same as the adult who pays for sex with a child sustains the exploitation. It is incomprehensible that a health care provider is so eager to abet a trafficker, and for a national organization which receives public funds to support in this way our national epidemic of child sexual exploitation is vile.”
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