{"id":56812,"date":"2014-12-11T19:48:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T00:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=56812"},"modified":"2014-12-13T23:22:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T04:22:19","slug":"dear-uva-protestors-if-youre-looking-for-enablers-of-rape-go-to-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/dear-uva-protestors-if-youre-looking-for-enablers-of-rape-go-to-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear UVA protestors: If you\u2019re looking for \u201cenablers of rape,\u201d go to Planned Parenthood."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Phi Kappa Psi<\/a> has faced some serious accusations. In October, Rolling Stone<\/em> magazine published a student’s account of being gang-raped on broken glass<\/a> at the fraternity\u2019s UVA chapter.<\/p>\n

Identified only as \u201cJackie,\u201d the woman said she was lured to a party before being slammed through a table, punched, and then raped for three hours by seven men–one of whom penetrated her with a beer bottle. Jackie claimed that after the ordeal was over, she was advised to stay quiet about it.<\/p>\n

The report generated an uproar, with protests<\/a> on campus and vandals damaging<\/a> Phi Kappa Psi\u2019s building. The story is certainly horrifying, but Rolling Stone<\/em> did leave out one detail:<\/p>\n

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There was no proof it actually happened.<\/p>\n

Although Jackie described a savage level of violence, she didn’t seek medical attention. And, while Rolling Stone<\/em> chose not to contact the alleged perpetrators, the Washington Post<\/em> did, uncovering evidence that seems to corroborate<\/a> the fraternity’s denial. That prompted an announcement<\/a> from Rolling Ston<\/em>e stating, \u201cIn the face of new information reported by the Washington Post and other news outlets, there now appear to be discrepancies in Jackie’s account,<\/em>\u201d and, \u201cWe apologize to anyone who was affected by the story and we will continue to investigate the events of that evening<\/em>.\u201d lf the men of Phi Kappa Psi are innocent, then I suspect they\u2019ll want more than an apology.<\/p>\n

Of course, none of this changes the fact that sexual violence is both a real and heinous crime. But despite loud condemnation of \u201crape culture<\/a>\u201d and \u201crape\u2019s enablers<\/a>,\u201d the outrage is selective. For unlike Phi Kappa Psi, there’s plenty of evidence that Planned Parenthood has helped to cover-up rape. Unfortunately, it’s seen few consequences.<\/p>\n

Rapists need secrecy, so getting a victim pregnant can be a major problem. Friends, family, and partners are bound to ask about a baby bump, and there’s no telling what kind of answers they\u2019re going to get. Even more questions tend to come up when a girl is underage.<\/p>\n

Gary Cross<\/a>\u00a0almost had to deal with that scenario after impregnating his thirteen year-old step-daughter, something he failed to notice until she was twenty-two weeks along. Planned Parenthood was able to lend a hand, though: they set up a late-term abortion and then said nothing to authorities. As a result, Cross was able to keep victimizing for another seven months.<\/p>\n

Fellow child rapists Timothy Smith<\/a>, Adam Gault<\/a>, and\u00a0John Blanks, Jr.<\/a> were also enabled by Planned Parenthood. Denise Fairbanks<\/a> claimed in a lawsuit that she told Planned Parenthood clinic staff about being brought in by her incestuous father. While clinic staff performed an abortion, they made no effort to report the abuse.<\/p>\n

Alleged Arizona serial rapist Tyler Kost<\/a> was apparently helped without even knowing it. When one of his alleged victims became pregnant, she went to Planned Parenthood for an abortion. According to her, clinic staff said that reporting the crime would involve too much paperwork. After Kost was arrested, the Pinal County Sheriff\u2019s Office stated that an investigation could have started months earlier<\/a> if Planned Parenthood had bothered to file a report.<\/p>\n

These cases aren’t anomalies. The group Life Dynamics recorded hundreds of calls to Planned Parenthood and National Abortion Federation clinics from an actress purporting to be fourteen years old and impregnated by her adult boyfriend. Close to eight hundred times<\/a>, staff were willing to arrange a secret abortion and protect the man\u2019s identify.<\/p>\n

Life Dynamics isn’t alone in recording this phenomenon–Live Action has produced undercover videos<\/a> capturing the same mentality. This includes footage of a Planned Parenthood worker who, when approached by a girl claiming to be fourteen, tells her to lie about her thirty one year-old boyfriend\u2019s age<\/a> in order to get an abortion. In another video, an employee offers to arrange abortions on child prostitutes who \u201ccan\u2019t speak English<\/a>\u201d and \u201cwon\u2019t know what\u2019s going on<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n