{"id":183906,"date":"2018-06-16T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=183906"},"modified":"2018-06-14T00:33:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T04:33:41","slug":"planned-parenthood-prevent-recorded-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-prevent-recorded-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood taught workers to prevent ‘being recorded’ rather than help abuse victims"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2008, Live Action Founder Lila Rose went undercover<\/a>\u00a0at eight different Planned Parenthood<\/a> facilities in six different states to see if the country’s largest abortion chain<\/a> was reporting cases of sexual abuse against minors. Accompanied by pro-lifer Jackie Stollar, Rose visited Planned Parenthood facilities in Indiana, Arizona, Tennessee, Alabama, Wisconsin, and Kentucky. She posed as a 13-year-old, pregnant by a man of 27 or 31. Relationships between 13-year-old children and adult men are considered statutory rape, and are required by law to be reported.<\/p>\n

In each facility, Planned Parenthood workers covered up the abuse and failed to report it to authorities. In Indiana, a Planned Parenthood worker told Rose to lie about the age of her boyfriend; in Wisconsin, a worker warned Rose that her abuse was supposed to be reported, and advised her to seek a judicial bypass in order to have the abortion<\/a> without her parents\u2019 consent. She was then advised to lie to the judge about her boyfriend\u2019s age. In Alabama, Rose was told that the anything she revealed to Planned\u00a0 Parenthood workers\u00a0\u201cstays within these walls.” Planned Parenthood never reported the abuse in Alabama, or in any other state.<\/p>\n

READ: <\/a><\/strong>Planned Parenthood allowed these predators to continue to harm children for more than 26 collective years<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Ramona Trevi\u00f1o and Sue Thayer were both working at Planned Parenthood when Live Action\u2019s investigation went public. Both women were directors of Planned Parenthood facilities that were not involved in the sting. Trevino later explained that right after the videos came out, Planned Parenthood set up a training session. It was conducted by Jean, the director of nurses at the administrator\u2019s office in Dallas. Trevi\u00f1o, who was troubled by the videos, thought the training was going to be about how to identify and report sexual abuse. It wasn’t.\u00a0In her book, she writes:<\/p>\n

\u201c… Jean never said anything about how we could help our clients. Instead, she started a PowerPoint presentation offering tips on what to do in the event Live Action were to target one of our clinics, ideas on how to protect ourselves from such an intrusion.<\/p>\n

I doodled in a notebook to release the tension over what was unfolding. Finally, feeling the need to break the silence from the workers in attendance, I spoke up. What did I have to lose?<\/p>\n

\u201cJean, uh, I guess what I\u2019m wondering is, what we do to as managers if something like this really does happen at our clinics?\u201d I asked. \u201cHow can we be prepared so that if it does happen, we can make sure our clients are safe and nothing illegal is going on?\u201d<\/p>\n

An awkward silence followed, and then Jean, clearly taken aback, responded in a stern voice, \u201cWe\u2019re not here to discuss that, Ramona. We\u2019re here to identify whether we\u2019re being violated by an undercover operation.\u201d …<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are ways to identify whether we are being recorded on the phone or Internet, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re here to learn,\u201d Jean emphasized.<\/p>\n

Throughout the rest of the meeting, my stomach churned. The unease that had accompanied me to the meeting had been bumped up a few notches.<\/p>\n

She sent us home with a pile of papers, mainly memos concerning what to look for in identifying potential undercover operations, including certain phrases that might be used to tip us off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Instead of telling Planned Parenthood workers to start reporting statutory rape, or giving them training on how to identify it, Planned Parenthood’s priority was to protect itself from more undercover investigations.<\/p>\n