{"id":183340,"date":"2018-06-17T12:40:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T16:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=183340"},"modified":"2018-06-12T15:02:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T19:02:49","slug":"requiring-planned-parenthood-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/requiring-planned-parenthood-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t be fooled: Requiring Planned Parenthood to report sexual abuse is a good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has\u00a0published<\/a> a proposed rule change to the federal Title X family planning program\u00a0in the Federal Register,<\/a> which reiterates the requirement that recipients and subrecipients of those tax dollars must, by law, report sexual abuse, including child sexual abuse and sex trafficking. The move comes on the heels of an investigative report<\/a>\u00a0and docuseries<\/a>\u00a0published<\/a> by Live Action, which reveals a systemic decades-long sexual abuse cover-up by Planned Parenthood, one of the largest recipients to Title X<\/a> funds.<\/p>\n

As Live Action News has previously documented<\/a>, Title X<\/a> requires recipients of the government dollars to comply with all federal and state laws involving the reporting of sexual abuse. In 2015 alone, 474 of the organization’s facilities received funding from the federal program.<\/p>\n

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Live Action’s alarming investigative report<\/a>\u00a0opens with this statement from a sexual abuse victim taken to Planned Parenthood for an abortion to cover the predator’s crime:<\/p>\n

She\u2019s out there. Somewhere. A girl just like me. Somewhere there\u2019s a young innocent girl \u2013 barely a teenager. And right now, she\u2019s suffering from the horrors of sexual abuse at the hands of an adult as I did. Somewhere \u2018that girl\u2019 is getting raped. Like I was. Impregnated. Like I was. And she may be taken to a Planned Parenthood abortion center. Like I was. \u2018That girl\u2019 may actually be telling Planned Parenthood that she\u2019s being abused. Probably by her boyfriend. In my case, I was abused by my own father. …For six years, Planned Parenthood did everything possible to try to defeat my [legal] claims and drown out my message that, when Planned Parenthood knows or suspects that a young girl is being sexually abused, it must meet its duties under the law and immediately report that abuse to the proper authorities. …We can all get behind cases like mine. Because they\u2019re out there. I know they\u2019re out there. You know they\u2019re out there. Planned Parenthood knows they\u2019re out there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n