My article from today’s Headline Bistro.
In an age when less than ten percent of medical research grants receive federal funding, accountability for every tax dollar received by institutions has become an ever-increasing imperative. Grants to institutions are a sacred trust, which, violated once, spells doom for the institution violating that trust. Thus, it is wholly appropriate to scrutinize the largest recipients in this age of shrinking allotments, and for Planned Parenthood – which receives a third of a billion dollars annually – the time is long past due.
Last week Lila Rose, president of Live Action, released a series of undercover videos in another of her organization’s ongoing sting operation against Planned Parenthood. To say the least, the videos are devastating. They may all be viewed here.
The videos employ a young man posing as a pimp, and some also have a young woman posing with him as one of his prostitutes. In the video, the “pimp” confides in the Planned Parenthood personnel that he is pimping girls as young as fourteen in an international trafficking operation and wants to know how he can go about obtaining STD testing, contraception and abortions for them. In five out of five clinics shown so far, not one nurse shut down the office visit upon learning that this man was pimping children and trafficking in them internationally.
Not one.
What ensued in the best three of the stings was a dry recitation of what the law would allow Planned Parenthood to do and not do. In Virginia, the law doesn’t require parental notification for contraception or STD testing, but does so for abortion. One nurse in Virginia goes on to tell the pimp that (wink, wink) they arrange for a way around parental notification by employing what is known as a “judicial bypass,” and that her clinic makes these arrangements once or twice a month.
Remarkably, we see a nurse who is doing all she can to aid and abet a grown man who claims to be trafficking children. For children in such trafficking rings, contact with a nurse or physician may be the only contact that they have with a decent human being in a position to help the child escape her sex slavery. Instead we see a nurse willing to obtain a judicial bypass.
For as shocking and devastating that is, the case of the sting in Perth Amboy, N.J., is nothing less than criminal. In that video, the nurse office manager goes to great lengths in helping the pimp with advice about lying to conceal the child’s true age, and gives the name of an abortion clinic that will help keep everything quiet and confidential.
Worse, the nurse manager agrees to bribe money in order to “streamline” the process.
Toward the end of the consultation, the nurse is asked how soon the girls can get back to work after an abortion. She informs the pimp that a minimum of two weeks before intercourse is required to prevent infection. When prompted by the pimp as to whether there is anything the girl can do in that time – because, “I mean they still gotta make money, you know?” – the response given will live on in infamy:
“Waist Up.”
Her meaning was clear, and I have written an extensive blog post about the STDs of “Waist Up,” which can be read here. To say the least, the videos taken individually and in the aggregate are heartbreaking. Never once did clinic personnel excuse themselves to call the police either while the pimp was present, or afterward. Never once did the personnel state that child sex trafficking is against the law and that Planned Parenthood does not, as a matter of policy, work with sex traffickers; especially those of children.
Never once.
Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, called in the FBI only belatedly when she realized that she had possibly been stung. Her office denounced Lila Rose and called the tapes fake, claiming they were heavily edited. They then fired the Perth Amboy clinic manager, which begs the question for what reason, if the tapes are not what they purport to be? In response, Rose released the full tapes showing the running counter on them. They are what they show.
Taken together with Live Action’s previous stings, where several Planned Parenthood clinics were shown giving advice on how to obtain an abortion to what they thought was an underage girl, as well as accepting donations from whites to sponsor abortions for African-Americans, we see this organization as constantly explaining away criminal and genocidal behavior as aberrations. But at what point do all of these atypical anomalies begin to add up to a representative pattern of behavior?
Considering that Planned Parenthood has fought against parental notification and consent laws regarding abortion in every state where they have been proposed, the aiding and abetting of those seeking to avoid parental notification in these videos seems remarkably consistent behavior.
The greatest outrage of all is the knowledge that Planned Parenthood receives a third of a billion dollars annually from the federal government, ostensibly because they help the poor; yet in several of these videos a pricelist of the services is reviewed, and the recommendation is made to go to the county health department where services may be obtained for free.
So why are these people receiving billions of our tax dollars every decade?
Research into improved therapies for so many diseases languishes for want of federal grant money, while Planned Parenthood received $350 million last year alone. A patient and objective viewing of Live Action’s expose reveals an organization that is infested systemically and has violated the sacred trust of the taxpayers.
If we are to build a Culture of Life, we must start by defunding the merchants of death. We must then entrust that money to those whose training and life’s work are oriented solely to the discovery of truth. We can advance the ball on cancer, on Juvenile Diabetes, on Alzheimer’s with the more than two billion dollars per decade that Planned Parenthood now receives.
It’s time.
Coming Home 
Gerry, great article. Your readers might also be interested to see Mattias Caro’s recent piece at Ethika Politika on why public funding for abortion is neither morally nor fiscally sound:
http://www.cfmpl.org/blog/2011/02/08/why-public-funding-of-abortions-is-untenable/
The idea that our tax dollars are being used to fund Planned Parenthood – an organization which has been repeatedly “stung” recommending that our laws be broken and thus ostensibly putting minors at risk – is intolerable.
So not one nurse shut down the office visit upon learning that this man was pimping children and trafficking in them internationally?
Why should they have “shut down” the visit? I fail to see how that would have helped anyone.
Getting AS MUCH information as possible from the alleged abuser, and then reporting him to the proper authorities would seem like the best course of action.
And if my teenage daughter were being pimped, I would hope that someone would at the very least make sure she had access to VD testing and contraception.
L,
Your last post was disgusting. Stop playing the provocateur here and act like an adult, or be gone.
I worked rescuing children from pimps. If I had the means, I would have killed them and slept like a baby. You have no idea the brutal savagery that is child prostitution, how it sucks their souls from them, how they are the walking dead.
The only reason for pimps seeking STD testing and contraception is to ensure as many men stick it between your daughter’s legs and in her mouth as possible. If my daughter were being pimped, I would hope someone other than these pigs would be there to rescue her.
Get the picture??!!
I am acting like a defender of PP, which I am. I am also acting like the mother of a 14-year old girl, which I also am.
We live a ten-minute walk from a notorious sex district — my daughter has been hassled by pimps on her way to school in the morning. This is something that is always on my mind.
” This is something that is always on my mind.”
What? Gratitude to the pimp who may one day abduct her, rape her repeatedly, pump her full of drugs, have her service 10-15 men per day, keep the money, feed her fast food, terrorize her, rob her beauty, her youth, her future? Gratitude that at least he may bring her to Planned Parenthood who will not lift a finger to rescue her, but rather do all they can to keep up the traffic between her legs? Lila has shown us the real Planned Parenthood, and still you support them?!
Yeah, right L.
You get mother of the year in my book.
Dr. Nadal, I find your last sentence quite disturbing. But you aren’t the first person who has called me a bad mother, and I’m sure you won’t be the last.
For all I know, my daughter could be involved in the Tokyo sex trade right NOW, because of its proximity. It is one of my deep primal fears, and at the barest MINIMUM, I hope that she is protected from diseases and pregnancy.
My parish is in the sex district, and has an outreach program for sex workers, some of whom are parishioners. I am not involved in this particular ministry, because it would hit a little too close to home for me.
L,
And I find your entire approach here profoundly nauseating. STD’s and pregnancy are NOTHING compared to being a teen sex slave. Your myopic focus on unwanted pregnancy, and Planned Parenthood’s willingness to murder the baby blinds you to the far greater malignancy of the predators that surround you, who would feed on your daughter.
Newsflash L, Planned Parenthood is responsible for the spread of STD’s through encouraging intercourse with condoms, which CDC says are practically worthless.
So you not only love Planned Parenthood because they stand ready to kill your unborn babies, but you stand by them even when they prove that they would not rescue your daughter from the very pimps you fear, just so long as they are willing to kill your unborn grandchildren and keep your daughter in tip top shape for pigs to use her.
Get help L.
You’re sick.
And we’re back to the old Proverbs 26:11 routine again. *sigh*
I am acting like a defender of PP, which I am. I am also acting like the mother of a 14-year old girl, which I also am.
L., It says a great deal that you chose to list your defense of PP before mothering your own child.
We live a ten-minute walk from a notorious sex district — my daughter has been hassled by pimps on her way to school in the morning. This is something that is always on my mind.
It says even more that you would claim that you are raising a child in such a terrible location, and permitting your child to be victimized on a daily basis in such a way. It’s “on your mind?” Is that the best you can come up with? Seriously?!
Personally, I’d do whatever it took to keep my daughters safe from such predators. And I sure as hell wouldn’t be living where my girls had to walk past “a notorious sex district” every day. It’s a big country; I’d be picking somewhere safer for my children to grow up. But then I put my kids first. You have repeatedly indicated motherhood is not your first priority. If we are to believe you, that is; I suspect most of what you post here is fabricated for the specific shock effect you have now engendered.
This persona of yours is so tiresome. Really it is. Could you at least go back to throwing out crumbs of agreement on minor issues now, so we can be lulled back into believing you are a rational human being and not an utter troll?
Sorry, RandomThoughts — I am an utter troll after all.
As such, I have assured Dr. Nadal that I will never darken his blog again. I will take my further thoughts on this subject over to my own blog.
//I will take my further thoughts on this subject over to my own blog.//
And that’s what it is, thoughts.
Dr. Nadal, with Fr. Groeschel? worked to rescue children from the ugliness of those that used children for their vice.
Those that used the children for their pursuit of pleasure, who will not be able to understand the destruction they have caused to those children. It’s the penalty of their vice.
You L, who “thinks” she has no trauma, no experience in trauma, and the results of such trauma, are exhibiting the thinking/conscience, of a pimp.
You’ve said some really important things in this post – things our citizenry needs to consider thoughtfully. I’ve included a link to your post on mine for the day – http://acts17verse28.blogspot.com/2011/02/planned-parenthood-more-problems.html. I hope you don’t mind; if you do, let me know and I’ll remove it immediately.
//This persona of yours is so tiresome. Really it is.//
RandomThoughts, you took the words right out of my mouth. Exactly what I was thinking and feeling. Thank you and God bless you.
Sue,
Feel free to repost anything you find here. I only ask people to:
1. Give full attribution.
2. Don’t charge for what you are republishing.
Random/Astran/Kathy,
I tend to take a hands-off approach to the conversations on the threads, however last night a line was crossed. L. and I continued our exchange in private emails and I think it best that she not post here again until such time as she gets her priorities straight. I don’t believe that she is inventing material, and that’s the tragedy.
L sought out Planned Parenthood as a child and is grateful that they helped to deceive her parents. She defends the same behavior seen in the Live Action videos, even if it means that it is she who is deceived were her daughter to end up working in the sex industry. It is a moral lesson for all, that defense of evil can corrode even that which is instinctual: a mother’s love.
In a word – enough!
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You know for some people – at least the trains always ran on time. And for others, some slave owners were kind to their slaves….
It boggles the mind….
One could almost do a blog posting of all her comments – culminating in these last remarks….