Pro forma Planned Parenthood

Matthew Hoy
By Matthew Hoy on May 14, 2007

What do you call it when a 23-year-old man has sex with a 15-year-old girl?

Statutory rape is correct.

What do you call it when a staff member at Planned Parenthood encourages a girl to lie about her age in order to get around state law requiring statutory rape to be reported to authorities?

If you guessed standard operating procedure you'd probably be right.

Planned Parenthood is under fire after one of its employees was recorded encouraging a student - who was posing as a pregnant minor - to lie about her age in order to obtain an abortion without the abortion provider having to report the "statutory rape" to the police.

Lila Rose, an 18-year-old sophomore at the University of California Los Angeles, visited a Planned Parenthood clinic in the city, posing as a 15-year-old impregnated by her 23-year-old boyfriend. The visit was part of an investigation for The Advocate, a new pro-life magazine distributed on the UCLA campus.

California law requires abortion clinics to report instances of statutory rape to police. The age of consent in California is 16.

In covertly-filmed video of the meeting between Rose and an unnamed Planned Parenthood employee, the staffer is heard to tell Rose: "If you're 15, we have to report it ... If you're not, if you're older than that, then we don't need to."

"Okay, but if I just say I'm not 15, then it's different?" Rose asks.

"You could say 16," the worker replies, later adding, "Just figure out a birth date that works. And I don't know anything."

Other parts of the video clip show the manager of another Planned Parenthood clinic encouraging Rose to seek an abortion.

The woman relates that having herself given birth at the age of 17, 16 years ago, the decision had severely hindered her education and life goals. "If I would do it again, I would not continue the pregnancy," she is heard telling Rose.

Rose told Cybercast News Service that she wants to hold abortion providers accountable for how they treat women in crisis pregnancies and to ensure "that abortion is not sold like a blender at Sears."

But Planned Parenthood doesn't make any money if you don't have the abortion. They don't get a cut of adoption fees.

I suspect that the Planned Parenthood folks will walk the straight and narrow -- at least for awhile. But don't forget that first and foremost, Planned Parenthood is a business.

You can watch the undercover videos after the break.


0 comments on “Pro forma Planned Parenthood”

  1. Wow. That lady regrets not having an abortion? Thank God she isn't my mother. I hope her child sees that and knows how much of an inconvenience he or she was.

  2. [...] that would be the case if it the business was anything other than the abortion business. I noted the videos made by 18-year-old UCLA sophomore Lila Rose a few days ago. Now, Planned Parenthood has threatened [...]

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