{"id":181864,"date":"2018-06-07T09:26:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T13:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=181864"},"modified":"2018-06-07T23:00:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T03:00:54","slug":"investigative-report-planned-parenthood-complicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/investigative-report-planned-parenthood-complicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigative report: Planned Parenthood’s systemic complicity in sexual abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Live Action has recently released a powerful docuseries<\/a> demonstrating Planned Parenthood’s decades long complicity in the cover-up of sexual abuse. An investigative report has also been released, detailing some of the horrific cases covered up by Planned Parenthood, which receives millions in taxpayer dollars annually, including Title X funds<\/a>. It also reiterates how abortion enables sexual abusers by aiding them in the ability to cover their crimes.<\/p>\n

The report, “Aiding Abusers, Planned Parenthood’s cover-up of child sexual abuse<\/a>,” (which can be read\u00a0here<\/a>) adds to the mounting evidence of Planned Parenthood’s history and corporate culture of failing to report incidents to authorities. Areas of evidence in the report include:<\/p>\n

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  1. Court cases including testimonies of victims experiencing horrific abuse<\/li>\n
  2. State health department records<\/li>\n
  3. Testimonies from former Planned Parenthood workers<\/li>\n
  4. Two Live Action Undercover investigations<\/li>\n
  5. Loyola University study on sex trafficking<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Aiding Abusers – Planned Parenthood’s cover-up of child sexual abuse<\/p><\/div>\n

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    The report states:<\/p>\n

    While Planned Parenthood frequently attempts to establish itself as a leading advocate on this critical issue, it is actually one of the biggest accomplices to child sexual abuse in the nation. Despite Planned Parenthood\u2019s public rhetoric as well as state and federal laws requiring it to report suspected abuse, its failure to report has been deliberate and widespread.<\/p>\n

    Time and again, rather than reporting suspected abuse to authorities, Planned Parenthood has repeatedly looked the other way, performed abortions on victims as young as 12 years old, and then returned those victims into the waiting arms of their abusers. Planned Parenthood\u2019s repeated failure to report such incidents has allowed abusers to continue abusing their victims, often for years.<\/p>\n

    This reputation has led to Planned Parenthood becoming a haven for sexual abusers and sex traffickers. Planned Parenthood is a favorite place to take their victims to cover up their crimes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Live Action acknowledges the contributions of other pro-life groups to the report:<\/p>\n

    Although Live Action has documented many of Planned Parenthood\u2019s failures and cover-ups, many other groups, such as Alliance Defending Freedom, Life Legal Defense Foundation, Life Dynamics, Americans United for Life, and others, have participated in legal actions or have collected reams of documents from lawsuits, court filings, and regulatory agency reports. Their work has contributed significantly to Live Action’s report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    It then summarizes a few of the lawsuits that have been brought against Planned Parenthood, incident reports from state regulators, as well as criminal cases against abusers who used the organization to cover their crimes. Some of those cases have also been detailed in Live Action’s newly released docuseries,\u00a0Aiding Abusers<\/a>:<\/p>\n