Planned Parenthood Covers for Child Rape
Posted by: tony on 12/16/2005 12:06 PM
Updated by: tony on 12/16/2005 12:31 PM
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Expires: 01/16/2006 12:00 AM
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Dawn Eden breaks yet another horrible story regarding Planned Parenthood in Golden Gate. She found a post in the shared stories section of the Planned Parenthood website which read:
It Keeps Us Safe
I was raped at 11, by my 17 year old boyfriend. I chose not to tell my parents because I didn't think their involvement would help, that was the right choice for me. Planned Parethood helped me deal with the aftermath of the rape allowing me to deal and cope as best as I could in my own way. I was 14 when I decided to start having sex, the day I made that choice I made an appointment to get birth control pills. I'm 17 now, I've been with my current boyfriend for about two years. During that time i've been HIV and STD tested four times. Right now I'm sitting in the waiting room while my boyfriend gets the results for his HIV test. We love each other so we're responsible and Planned Parenthood helps us to do that.
- name withheld -
It "keeps us safe"? SAFE? Safe from what. It seems that PP took this child in, and without notifying the police or her parents proceeded to "treat" her. The side effect of this is that the 17 year old rapist gets to continue to walk free, and possibly rape other little girls.
An 11 year old girl thinks that "their (her parents') involvement wouldn't help" and is qualified to make that sort of life altering decision on her own, being "counseled" by strangers with an agenda, and sent on her way to begin her new sexual life with all the appropriate chemicals, gizmos and gadgets to keep her "safe".
There is a child abuse reporting requirement in California. It's going to be interesting to see what happens.
But with any evil, there will always be the apologists. People who think the rape of 11 year old girls shrinks to insignificance beside a "woman's right to choose".
Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon writes:
If Steve is a crime expert, he's probably well aware that under things like the VAWA, even police and detectives that have to work sex crimes are being trained to be more sensitive to the victim's needs and not treat her like a piece of evidence to be collected. I know that the police department here in Austin has incorporated a victim's advocacy group so that victim needs are represented during the traumatic process of trying to gather evidence and testimony so that the city can prosecute. Steve and Dawn are pretending that PP was choosing between letting a rapist walk and obtaining justice, but it seems to me that the health professionals in this case probably saw it as a choice between honoring the patient's confidentiality and keeping her trust or alienating her so that she would leave and never come back for help again. Steve should be grateful for people out there like PP and victims' advocates, because by creating enviroments where rape victims can feel trust, in the long run, you're probably going to get more victims who feel comfortable prosecuting their assailants.
Rape is a horrible thing. Rape of a little girl who should still be playing with Barbies is a heinous thing.
PP is helping create an environment of hyper-sexualization that makes it almost impossible (as Amanda herself moans in her blog entry) to get a conviction.
There is never an excuse for rape, but the abysmal conviction rates on these predators is partially due to the fact that victims don't want to be put on the stands because the defense lawyer will take their sex life apart with a fine toothed comb.
The way to keep your sex life from being taken apart with a fine toothed comb is to not have a sex life outside of marriage. And PP is a big player in the societal encouragement to do just the opposite.
Women really need to begin to understand that PP is no friend of theirs.
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