If my house is ransacked, I call the police. I am upset, probably missing a lot of valuables, and counting on some sort of justice to find the guilty party and make him pay for his crime. I don't dread the phone call -- even understanding that the police are not perfect, I know at least they'll take down my report and try to help me: the victim. It's why we pay taxes, it's part of the legal code we've agreed to for the sake of protecting citizens from vandals.
Now, I guess other people look at the authorities differently. Michelle Malkin provides part of a transcript of an undercover reporter who posed as a 15-year-old girl trying to get an abortion. Problem is, if the father of the unborn child is 23, as she claimed, there's a statutory rape to deal with, for which the law says reporting is mandatory. Not at Planned Parenthood:
Planned Parenthood: If you're fifteen, we have to report it. If you're not, if you're older than that, then we don't need to.
Fifteen Year Old: Okay, but if I just say I'm not fifteen, then it's different? So I could just say ...?
Planned Parenthood: You could say sixteen.
Fifteen Year Old: I could say sixteen.
Planned Parenthood: Yes.
Fifteen Year Old: Okay, yeah. So I would just write sixteen?
Planned Parenthood: Well just figure out a birthdate that works. And I don't know anything.
Well, the staff member knows nothing except the relevant law, the fact that age fifteen is a legal problem, she knows that lying is easy, that the law is a pain-in-the-neck, and that government is the heavy in this case. The premise is that the law (protecting children from being sexually abused by adults) is unhelpful for the business goals of Planned Parenthood, which makes a boatload of money from the very fact that children are regularly sexually abused by adults.
The only people who look at reporting crime as burdensome are the people who are on the side of the criminals -- no surprise there. [You-tube video here.]
UPDATE: Planned Parenthood has responded by threatening to sue the girl who collected the damaging information. Claiming that she violated privacy laws, the they insist that the clinic worker breaking the law was an aberration in an operation that is law abiding. A past investigation suggests that's not true:
In 2002, an activist group called Life Dynamics ran a campaign in which a woman posing as a 13-year old impregnated by a 22-year-old and called clinics operated by Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation. The group has compiled tapes of workers encouraging girls to lie about their age to avoid being reported as a victim.
The group claims to have collected "over 800 tape recordings that show how Planned Parenthood and NAF workers secure business from victims of statutory rape by undermining parental authority, encouraging children to lie and promising minors that their employees will ignore mandatory reporting laws."
"[T]ell them your boyfriend is 16 or something because he could get in a lot of trouble," one employee in Alaska told the caller. A worker in North Carolina told the caller, "I wouldn't advise you to say anything about your boyfriend being 22, because that's statutory rape."
Life Dynamics founder Mark Crutcher told Cybercast News Service Monday that telling girls to lie about their age is standard practice for abortion clinics because "there's lots of money in this."
Privacy laws are Planned Parenthood's friends. Rape laws are ... um, problemmatic.
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