It hasn’t been a very good week for New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. Planned Parenthood’s lap dog on the New York City Council has been helping fellow council member, Jessica Lappin drive through the legislative body a bill targeting New York’s Pregnancy Resource Centers with sign restrictions that meet with Planned Parenthood and NARAL approval. The bill would also constrain PRC’s from notifying law enforcement in the case of a child who is the victim of rape, incest, or sex trafficking unless that frightened and bewildered child is suddenly possessed with the objectivity, wisdom, and fortitude of a grown adult.
Last week, a judge in Baltimore ruled that city’s law (similar to bill 0371) to be unconstitutional on the grounds that the free speech rights of PRC’s were violated by pro-choice advocates determining the speech of pro-lifers. A permanent injunction was to be instituted today.
Then today, Lila Rose released the first of another series of sting operations against PP, this time showing a PP center in NYC’s backyard (Perth Amboy, NJ) where the nurse office manager encouraged what she thought was a pimp and a prostitute running a child sex-trafficking ring. The manager gave advice on everything from how to lie about the very young girl’s ages to make them seem older, to advising that they have girls who just had abortions just do oral sex in the two weeks afterward, to how to avoid parental notification in general. See the video here.
Quinn and her fellow traveler Lappin have the data on the genocidal numbers in NYC’s abortion industry, and have not rescinded the bill.
They have seen the Baltimore law struck down and have not rescinded the bill.
They have had their financial ties to Planned Parenthood and NARAL exposed in the New York Media, and have not rescinded this NARAL and PP-sponsored bill.
Now comes Lila Rose.
These are evil, wicked women for whom the Constitution means nothing, Public Health data mean nothing, parental rights mean nothing, and the rights of children to be protected from predators means even less.
Speaker Quinn wants to be the next Mayor of New York. If Bill 0371 is driven through the Council, in spite of all of the above, she will suffer a blistering two years in the run-up to the primaries. We need leaders who side with parents, and not the predators in Planned Parenthood. As it is shaping up, Speaker Quinn’s refusal thus far to rescind a bill aimed at crushing those who are the only decent alternative to NARAL and Planned Parenthood makes her unfit for public office. This is a representative democracy, where leaders do the bidding of the decent families who are the backbone of society, and not the bidding of the child predators.
It’s put up or shut up time for the Speaker.
Of course, if she doesn’t win the mayoral nod, she may still get “Best in Show” from Planned Parenthood.
Coming Home 
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“Best in Show” must be for that new American breed – the Political Lap Dog.
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The PP Vice President ignores the CNN reporter and trys to convince CNN viewers Live Action is a nothing but a right wing extremist group trying to take away women’s rights.
Stigmatizing effective opposition tactics like this recall the extreme tactics PP used to stigmatize Dr. Bernard Nathanson and the Silent Scream ultrasound Dr. Nathanson produced. PP hired expensive analysts and tried to break down Silent Scream on their websites to undercut the credibility of Dr. Nathanson’s truthful expose of the terror and suffering a baby in the womb suffers during a suction abortion.
Dr. Nadal scores some strong points. For Lila Rose and Live Action to score their expose in Perth Amboy so soon after the Gosnell abomination hit the news, in a state where the Governor has stopped funding PP should, hopefully rally the ordinary citizen in the boroughs of New York and equip the ordinary citizen with the confidence and critical thinking skills to raise strong and unrelenting protest to the targeting of minorities and thrusting of minority populations into years of misery and sin that passage of Bill #371 represents.
Liberals in the Progressive caucus would open the door to regulation of free speech by voting for Bill #371 to regulate the free speech of CPCs.
But to stop there and not seek a bill to authorize police investigation of every abortion clinic in the 5 boroughs of NYC is an abandoment of a standard of public service, if you ask me.
When the operations of abortion cliinics allow for criminal underaged 14 year olds to be used by their pimps and ruthlessly aborted, (not to mention drugged plugged and jellied by Planned Parenthood’s corrupting contraception business practices when evidence of contraception failure is available from Planned Parenthood’s own records is an abandonment of a standard of public service, if you ask me.
When Planned Parenthood services go unregulated when proof of these practices just a few short miles from NYC establishes the practice of criminal behavior in abortion clinics.. for the press to ignore these outrageous attacks on ordinary people is an indictment of the blind politically correct lockstep institutionalized thinking that the people of NYC must reject loudly.
Here’s hoping every person who reads this column will go to http://www.savethelifecenters.com and sign the EMC petition and seek and obtain the EMC action plan and start calling your city counselor and oppose Bill #371 and demand the NYC District Attorney recognize the standard of probable cause based on the Gosnell case and the Live Action expose and establish investigations by the NYC police department of every abortion clinic in NYC.
Could you explain more about this part?
“The bill would also constrain PRC’s from notifying law enforcement in the case of a child who is the victim of rape, incest, or sex trafficking unless that frightened and bewildered child is suddenly possessed with the objectivity, wisdom, and fortitude of a grown adult.”
I knew nothing about this aspect of the proposal. All that ever gets discussed is the mandated signs.
How can they possibly stop them from reporting suspected child abuse? That’s permitted to anyone and is usually mandatory for health facilities under mandatory reporter laws. Trying to stifle their ability to report such suspicions seems to be not only contrary to the First Amendment but also seems to favor child abusers.
Good for the Baltimore judge, by the way. Did the Baltimore law also have this aspect concerning reporting suspected abuse? I didn’t see any mention of that in the article I read on the judge’s ruling.
Lydia,
A provision of the bill requires absolute confidentiality unless the woman/child gives written consent.
In NY State, mandatory reporting is for children 12 and under., So between 13 and 18, the girl requires the grace of deliberate intervention on the part of charitable and concerned adults. A 13 year-old presenting at a PRC whose father of the child is 18 and older is a victim of statutory rape. She may be a prostitute in a sex-trafficking ring, and this is a rare moment of grace when a caring adult on the lookout for just such a circumstance is in a position to do something for her.
According to the law, such an imprisoned, abused, and frightened child would need to give written consent for the PRC to contact law enforcement or the child’s parents. That’s unlikely to happen, as I can testify from my years at Covenant House in Times Square.
The penalties for such violation range from stiff fines, to center closure, to prison.
This is the true face of Christine Quinn, Planned Parenthood’s lap dog on the NYC Council. According to these monsters, the right to do with one’s body as one pleases trumps humanity and decency. I’ve long-since abandoned trying to reason with such filth. There is no reasoning with those who are driven by the exercise of raw political power in the headlong pursuit of murdering babies in the womb. Being as committed to that as they are, why should we expect any better for older children?
These people can not be reasoned with, only defeated in the political system.
Gerald, this is fascinating, and I don’t know why it isn’t being highlighted more in discussions of this law. Do you know if it was also a feature of the Baltimore law?
Also, do you know how it interacts with state law? For example, if it goes beyond state law, would that provide a possible avenue for challenge?
I assume it will be challenged as unconstitutional in any event on free speech grounds because of the signs, but there should be some way to challenge the other provision as well.
Dr. Nadal, I’ve blogged this here:
http://www.whatswrongwiththeworld.net/2011/02/bombshell_nycs_proposed_cpc_ha.html
If you should want to jump in on the thread, feel free. We have a regular commenter who appears to be a lawyer (though I don’t think in New York) and who will almost certainly try to find some way to spin this and to say that I and/or you have misrepresented the legal situation.
I did look up the text of the law, and the confidentiality provision is right there. Naturally, it has an exception if reporting is required by law, but if that applies only to twelve and under, there you go. I did a little hunting around on mandatory reporting law in New York State, and it appears to be a mess. On the face of it, statutory rape is 17 and under, and that should be the end of it. But apparently a number of court rulings have nearly gutted this leaving medical reporters in a grey zone where they could potentially be sued _for_ reporting. Some who write on this (predictably, the ACLU) imply that even if a parent knows about and allows the sexual activity to go on, this does not constitute “abuse or neglect.” Everything appears to be put in terms of the parents–that it’s the parents one is “reporting” for “abuse or neglect,” though prima facie if one reported a suspected case of statutory rape or prostitution, it would be the rapist or pimp one would be reporting! Many of these girls could be runaways with no parents anywhere in the picture.
Anyway, the courts appear definitely not to be on the side of the angels on this there in New York State and to be trying to gut the statutory rape laws of all force so long as the sex is “consensual,” despite the fact that the whole point of statutory rape laws is that a girl of that age is not legally able to give consent!
Just thought I’d give you that run-down and invite you to participate.