{"id":1729,"date":"2011-02-02T00:28:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T05:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2013-12-28T11:34:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T16:34:01","slug":"anti-trafficking-advocates-react","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/anti-trafficking-advocates-react\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-trafficking advocates react to Live Action video release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>We have received the following statements from anti-human trafficking advocates regarding the <a href=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/planned-parenthood-aids-sex-ring\/\" target=\"_blank\">video we released earlier today<\/a> showing a Planned Parenthood of New Jersey manager aid what she thought was a child sex trafficker.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracehavenhouse.org\/gracehaven\/team\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jeffrey J. Barrows, D.O., M.A. (Bioethics) <\/strong><\/a><em><br \/>\nFounder &amp; Executive Director, Gracehaven<br \/>\nDirector, Christian Trafficking Shelter Assoc<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAs a healthcare professional actively fighting human trafficking, I know that traffickers will often take their victims to clinics to obtain abortions or STI testing. I find it appalling that there are people working at Planned Parenthood who are willing to help traffickers exploit young girls, but even more horrifying to realize they are being paid with my tax dollars!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewalforum.org\/html\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\">Statement of Steven Wagner<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>President and Founder, the Renewal Forum<br \/>\nFormer Director, Human Trafficking Program, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe \u2018Live Action\u2019 video, filmed at a clinic in New Jersey, is profoundly disturbing.\u00a0 It shows a putative health care provider willing to collaborate with a human trafficker in the sexual exploitation of a child.\u00a0 Under U.S. federal law, any juvenile (under 18) who is subjected to commercial sexual exploitation is a victim of human trafficking.\u00a0 Under our legal system, we hold that no child can give informed consent to engage in prostitution.\u00a0 Similarly, no child who is trapped in a situation of commercial sexual exploitation can give informed consent for an abortion, or a regime of contraception.\u00a0 Yet the health care provider in this video readily offers to provide the pimp\u2019s victims with abortions and contraception.\u00a0 Whatever the legal obligation this health care provider has under state law to report the serial sexual abuse of this child, the moral obligation of anyone encountering a juvenile victim of commercial sexual exploitation is to assist the child to escape or at least to alert law enforcement officials.\u00a0 To provide abortions or contraception to a child who is being sexually exploited is to sustain that exploitation \u2013 just the same as the adult who pays for sex with a child sustains the exploitation.\u00a0 It is incomprehensible that a health care provider is so eager to abet a trafficker, and for a national organization which receives public funds to support in this way our national epidemic of child sexual exploitation is vile.\u00a0\u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have received the following statements from anti-human trafficking advocates regarding the video we released earlier today showing a Planned Parenthood of New Jersey manager aid what she thought was a child sex trafficker. 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Barrows, D.O., M.A. (Bioethics) Founder &amp; Executive Director, Gracehaven Director, Christian Trafficking Shelter Assoc \u201cAs a healthcare professional actively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":14357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Anti-trafficking advocates react to Live Action video release - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/anti-trafficking-advocates-react\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anti-trafficking advocates react to Live Action video release - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We have received the following statements from anti-human trafficking advocates regarding the video we released earlier today showing a Planned Parenthood of New Jersey manager aid what she thought was a child sex trafficker. 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