In Live Action’s Perth Amboy, New Jersey Planned Parenthood sting, nurse manager Amy Woodruff is asked by the “pimp” and his “bottom girl” how soon a fourteen year old girl can go back to work after an abortion. Two weeks for intercourse was the reply. But in response, in the words of the pimp:
“I mean they still gotta make money, you know?”
Woodruff’s heartless reply:
“Waist up.”
Meaning that they can still do oral sex while their frail bodies recover from gynecological surgery. This beast couldn’t even screw up a shred of humanity to say,
“Hey man, they aren’t machines. Give them a little rest.”
That now-infamous line, “Waist up,” screams for a little epidemiology, and pathophysiology. Let’s look at a sampler platter with only some of the STD’s transmitted via oral sex performed on the most STD-riddled members of society.
{I don’t show clinical photos of disease manifestations. I leave it to the reader to Google the images if they so desire}
Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
It is estimated that more than 1,700 new cases of HPV-associated head and neck cancers are diagnosed in women and nearly 5,700 are diagnosed in men each year in the United States.*
*These numbers are based on a large study that covered 83% of the U.S. population during 1998–2003, and may under-represent the actual number of cancers diagnosed during this time period. Also, this study used cancer registry data to estimate the amount of potentially HPV-associated cancer in the United States by examining cancer in parts of the body and cancer cell types that are more likely to be caused by HPV. Cancer registries do not collect data on the presence or absence of HPV in cancer tissue at the time of diagnosis. Cancers of the head and neck are usually caused by tobacco and alcohol, but recent studies show that about 25% of mouth and 35% of throat cancers are caused by HPV.
The following graph from CDC shows the incidence rates of head and neck cancers from HPV:
Chlamydia
This is a bacterial infection that remains asymptomatic (silent) in over 50% of patients who have it. If it gets established in the mouth, nose, or pharynx, it leads to infections of the eye that are not always easily treated. Since it remains silent in so many, a person with oral chlamydia (or any pathogen for that matter) can get it on their hands by simply wiping their mouth, and then transmit it to their genitals by merely wiping after toileting. Once transmitted to the genitalia in girls, it can lead to Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and sterility.
Here are CDC’s rates of Chlamydia by age and sex in the U.S. in 2008:
Gonorrhea
It should be noted that Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, and Syphilis are often travel companions, and many clinicians will treat for all three if one is found.
Gonorrhea, also caused by a bacterium will often spontaneously resolve in cases of oral infection, but can be transmitted to objects placed in the mouth and throat, such as another penis. In rare cases of depressed immune function, oral gonorrhea can spread systemically (throughout the body). Cases of girls in sex-trafficking rings who are kept stressed, hooked on heroin and cocaine, and malnourished, are more likely to suffer from immunosuppression and become a candidate for oral, leading to systemic infection.
Here are CDC’s rates by age and sex for 2009
HIV
According to CDC, the oral mode of HIV transmission is lower than the vaginal and anal routes, but still a risk factor:
If the person receiving oral sex has HIV, their blood, semen (cum), pre-seminal fluid (pre-cum), or vaginal fluid may contain the virus. Cells lining the mouth of the person performing oral sex may allow HIV to enter their body.
The risk of HIV transmission increases
if the person performing oral sex has cuts or sores around or in their mouth or throat;
if the person receiving oral sex ejaculates in the mouth of the person performing oral sex; or
if the person receiving oral sex has another sexually transmitted disease (STD).
Syphilis
This disease is on the rise world-wide, especially in sex industry workers. It progresses through three distinct stages.
In the primary stage a painless sore, or chancre as it is called, develops on the genitalia or in the mouth and spontaneously resolves in a few weeks. Cases of oral chancres can often be misdiagnosed as some other oral pathology, and therefore go untreated. When this happens the disease progresses to its secondary stage where it becomes more diffuse throughout the body.
A number of different lesions appear in secondary stage disease, and about 25% of secondary stage lesions will recur, even after treatment. One of the manifestations is Ulceronodular Disease:
Ulceronodular disease is an explosive generalized form of secondary syphilis characterized by fever, headache, and myalgia, followed by a papulopustular eruption that rapidly transforms into necrotic, sharply demarcated ulcers with hemorrhagic brown crusts, organized in rupioid layers commonly on the face and scalp. The mucosa is involved in about one third of affected patients. Lues maligna gives rise to crateriform or shallow ulcers on the gingivae, palate or buccal mucosa, with multiple erosions on the hard and soft palates, tongue and lower lip.
From the same paper, the manifestations of tertiary stage disease include:
Syphilitic leukoplakia would appear to be a homogenous white patch affecting large areas of the dorsum of the tongue. There are few good descriptions of syphilitic leukoplakia, and it is unclear whether this lesion truly reflects syphilis, or more likely a tobacco smoking habit—indeed this was observed by Hutchinson in the 19th century.
An association between tertiary syphilis and oral squamous cell carcinoma—particularly of the tongue—has been suggested for many years. Both clinically- and serologically-based studies have suggested an increased prevalence of syphilis in patient groups with squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue (up to 60% in one study), the association being stronger in males than females. A relatively recent study of 16,420 people with syphilis resident in the US found a significantly raised frequency of cancer of the tongue (and Kaposi’s sarcoma) in males.
Herpes
Herpes Simplex Virus (both HSV-I and HSV-2) can infect the mouth, genitals, and anus, and are readily transmitted from one site to the other by oral sex. Worse, in some 2/3 of cases the patient can shed the virus without having any visible sores (subclinical shedding). Patients with herpes sores may also transmit HIV and other STD’s to the mouth of the prostitute, as these sores become portals of transmissibility for the other pathogens.
Hepatitis A, B, and C can all be transmitted via oral sex, and lead to liver disease and death.
This was just an STD sampler platter. Planned Parenthood holds itself out as the STD experts. They know the data on the spotty condom efficacy from CDC’s Fact Sheet on the Male Latex Condom, and know well that condoms don’t prevent STD transmission entirely.
Yet Planned Parenthood nurse Amy Woodruff, the office manager, was quick to recommend “Waist Up” for post-operative/post-abortive young girls servicing the most STD-prone members of society.
Remember, these are the “experts”.
Coming Home 
Oral sex, just like any sex, can spread disease — that’s indisputably true.
And Amy Woodruff was fired from PP — that’s indisputably a good thing, no matter where one stands on PP and its mission.
Why is it a good thing that Woodruff was fired L?
She was fired for doing her job.
She did what any PP staffer would do. She followed the organization’s protocol which is to give birth control and abortions out to any one who comes in, no questions asked. Even if they are under age sex slaves. Even if they are trafficked young girls.
They only fired her because she was the scapegoat in this fiasco. She got caught. But every staffer in every PP would have done would she did and apparently even more than she did as newly released tapes seem to demonstrate.
Also the point of Dr Nadal’s post here was not just that oral sex causes disease, L.
The point was that a PP employee was suggesting that these vulnerable young girls who are already suffering the trauma of abortion be further abused by having to perform oral sex without a thought to their health or the fact that they are human beings with dignity.
I would have hoped that even you would have cottoned on to this. Apparently not.
Mary Catherine, I would have hoped that even you would have cottoned that Amy Woodruff was not following PP’S protocol.
L., even though I am pro-choice, I can’t help but think that Woodruff WAS following PP’s protocol. The real protocol of any organization is what is practiced, not what is on the books. The books just make everything look pretty and legit.
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California Yankee, did you watch the first video? Amy Woodruff was telling the man how to sneak around PP’s protocols.
Yes, I did. What I am saying is that all organizations have official protocols, practices and procedures, that look respectable in writing. However, what they actually practice, what is encouraged and accepted “offline,” is usually quite different.
I am a union steward. The reason I am a steward is that, although my organization agrees to obey labor laws and the written contracts between it and its unions, it does not in practice. Those in authority, down to their henchmen, break the laws and the union contract regularly and knowingly. Of course when I’ve called them on it, they deny everything. No difference here. I have little doubt that Amy Woodruff, with her handy tips for pimps, is an anomaly or unknown to PP management.
If these videos shake up PP and get it to confirm to appropriate laws, I’m all for it.
“Amy Woodruff was telling the man how to sneak around PP’s protocols.”
EXACTLY! That IS PP protocols. What’s on the books is for public consumption dear. What they actually do when perps and pervs come in leading their victims to get “treatment” is quite another thing.
As we’ve seen that includes aborting minors who are the victim of incest, rape etc as well as being quite willing to service sex slaves in the backrooms.
I agree with that — if these videos shake up PP and get all of their employess to confirm to appropriate laws, that’s a good thing.
(My grandfather was a machinist, so I grew up hearing stories about all the good — and all the bad — that unions did.)
“What’s on the books is for public consumption dear.”
Internal protocols are for public consumption?
(And what’s with the “dear” stuff?)
glad you understand!
Ah, nope — I don’t. Why bother making any internal rules at all? Seems like a waste of time, if the only thing PP truly wants to do is help us perverts corrupt as many people as possible.
But I can understand that if people don’t agree with PP’s mission, then they are going to assume the worst, all the time.
Formal internal policies, practices, etc., are something that an organization can point to and say, “See, we’re legit! We have respectable policies! We follow the law!” They’re a cover. The organization will use those policies/practices to scapegoat someone when that someone, like Amy Woodruff in this case, was caught following the unwritten policies that are actually in practice. I’ve seen it happen where I work. Company policy/practice says A, B and C. In reality, employees are expected to do questionable or illegal practices D, E and F. When the company is called on practices E, F and G, management blames the lower-rung employee for not following rules, fires him or her, and the problem – not the problem of shoddy practice, but the problem of that horrible employee who broke company rules! – is solved.
Apologies for my poor grammar, and spelling (i.e., meant “to conform,” not “to confirm”), in my earlier response.
California Yankee, I admit routine problems are possible, and neither I nor anyone but the individuals involved know if it applies in this case or not, at this PP branch or at all of its branches, or not.
I admitted on another thread that some years ago, in another state, I was a very satisfied patient at PP, and it was my primary health provider for many years. So based on my positive experiences, I admit I have a pro-PP bias, and I do hope that overall, PP continues to exhibit the professionalism and compassion they showed me.
And as I said above, I do understand why some people who don’t agree with PP’s mission at all are going to assume the worst.
L, as a patient you really would have no idea what their policies are.
You came in needing certain services that were not “unique”. Nothing unusual there in the way PP operates because it routinely sets children against the authority of their parents.
But for these situations where there are very young girls who are obviously being brought in by the perps there is a whole other set of rules (or lack of).
The point is, for PP, anyone, anytime can get an abortion because anyone, anytime in any circumstance has the right to one – even if that means aborting an 11 year old and sending her back to her perp to be abused again. It’s also about the bottom line – profit; turn no womb away. Spare no child, born or unborn.
The videos plainly demonstrate that this is PP’s MO. And the fact is Live Action could walk into ANY PP and likely get the same behavior. It’s systemic to the organization.
The government should not be in the business of supporting an organization that is quite obviously operating illegally and aiding criminal behavior. They should be defunded.
The onus is now on PP to prove that they don’t operate this way. They can’t and they won’t.
I see no further reason to debate this point any further.
One wonders just what it will take to stop PP. And one wonders just how deep the corruption goes? Does it extend into the government either at state or federal level? Or is it simply a matter of ideology?
“Our investigation – and their response – continues to show that an institutional crisis has engulfed the highest levels of PP. If you’re a sex-trafficker of minors or young women, you have a partner in PP. But if you are a minor or a young woman, you are not safe at PP clinics.”
Lila Rose on PP corruption.
Just goes to show that you can’t practice vice virtuously.
“… it routinely sets children against the authority of their parents.”
It definitely does this, and of course I think this is a very good thing. But you knew I was going to say that, because of my own experience and beliefs.
I have heard a lot of people asking, tongue in cheek, if PP murders babies, what’s the big deal, that it aided someone exploiting minors? Isn’t the first crime a lot worse? Why the fuss?
psalm, how very true.
Socrates said in The Republic that virtue can know vice but vice cannot know evil. The penalty for vice is the vice itself, the not seeing the good in its fullness, the good that ought to be there.
Turning away from God would not be a defect except in a nature meant to be with God. Even an evil will then is proof of the goodness of nature. Just as God is the supremely good creator of good natures, so he is the most just ruler of evil wills, so that even though evil wills make an evil use of good natures, God makes a good use of evil wills.
– St. Augustine, The City of God, XI, 17
JAMES V. SCHALL, S.J.
“Our body is a temple of the Holy Spirit.”
The nuns taught us that and we believed it. Apparently my generation forgot to pass it on. Is it too late?
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