{"id":178759,"date":"2018-06-01T08:53:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T12:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=178759"},"modified":"2018-06-06T15:13:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T19:13:21","slug":"planned-parenthood-victims-sexual-abusers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-victims-sexual-abusers\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’: Planned Parenthood sends pre-teen victims back to sexual abusers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is Planned Parenthood an enabler where sexual abuse is concerned, because of its failure to report suspected abuse, leaving victims vulnerable? According to a new docuseries<\/a> released this week by Live Action, Aiding Abusers, the answer is yes. The nation’s number one abortion corporation has failed to report sexual abuse many times — even child sexual abuse. The compelling evidence contained in Live Action’s Aiding Abusers docuseries and investigative report includes undercover investigations, witness testimony, and court documents, along with news reports showing that sexual abuse victims continued to be abused because of Planned Parenthood’s apparent “don’t ask\/don’t tell” practices on reporting sexual abuse.<\/p>\n

Today, as society takes a stand against complicity in covering sexual abuse through social media campaigns such as #MeToo and #TimesUp, Planned Parenthood, a corporation which has profits of millions of dollars a year and receives half a billion in taxpayer dollars annually, must also be held accountable.<\/p>\n

Live Action president and founder Lila Rose stated in a press release<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Despite Planned Parenthood\u2019s public rhetoric as well as laws requiring it to report suspected abuse, its failure to report has been deliberate and widespread. Time and again, rather than reporting abuse to authorities, Planned Parenthood has repeatedly looked the other way and performed abortions on victims as young as 12 years old. These girls deserved advocacy but instead Planned Parenthood staff ignored their abuse and returned them to the waiting arms of their abusers.<\/p>\n

Because of flagrant violations like these, the proposed Title X rule tightening on reporting abuse is absolutely necessary. Planned Parenthood has proven that its priority is selling abortions, not caring for the most vulnerable of girls. Planned Parenthood\u2019s culture of cover-up must end, the cycle of abuse of innocent children must end, and Planned Parenthood\u2019s half a billion dollars in annual federal funding must end. Taxpayers cannot be forced to subsidize these abuses of children.<\/p>\n

Live Action is releasing this report as the Time\u2019s Up movement is exposing both sexual abusers and those who help them cover up their crimes \u2014 the people who knew about the abuse but stayed silent. While Planned Parenthood has attached itself to the Time\u2019s Up movement, the movement should be calling out Planned Parenthood for decades of enabling sexual abusers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the most recent<\/a> of several releases in the Aiding Abusers series, Live Action details just of few of the heart wrenching criminal cases of rape and sexual abuse that have been uncovered, showing that time and again, Planned Parenthood’s response was not to protect these victims, but instead to release them back to their abusers:<\/p>\n