Sexual activity with underage children is known as statutory rape and is illegal in all 50 states. Also, it is required by law in all 50 states for healthcare workers with reason to suspect an underage girl is being sexually abused to report the information to child protective services or another agency designated by the state. That agency is then responsible to investigate the possibility that the child may be the victim of sexual abuse, including statutory rape. The very fact that an underage girl is pregnant is evidence that she may be the victim of sexual abuse, therefore any healthcare worker that comes in contact with her is obligated, under the law, to report her case to the state’s designated agency. It is then THEIR responsibility, and not the health care worker’s, to determine if the circumstances of the girl’s pregnancy are criminal in nature. The patient-doctor confidentiality does NOT override the requirement to report cases of possible abuse to the authorities, yet the abortion industry is underreporting these instances of statutory rape, as well as encouraging their “clinics” to not report instances of abuse. The sexual predators preying upon these girls are free to find more victims while the abortionists simply give the girls themselves contraceptives, thus making these underage girls even more accessible to sexual predators. Life Dynamics, a non-profit group dedicated to end abortion, conducted a covert investigation in which they called over 800 Planned Parenthood and National Abortion Federation facilities across the country. During these calls, the caller portrayed herself as a 13 year old girl, pregnant by her 22 year old boyfriend looking to get an abortion so that her parents would not find out about their sexual relationship. Though many of the "clinic" workers who took these calls did inform the girl that what was happening was illegal, that did not stop the vast majority of them from telling her how to keep her parents from knowing, how to keep from reveling the age of her boyfriend, how to get around parental consent laws, as well as the laws protecting girls just like her from being the victims of grown men wanting to exploit them sexually. Worse, in over 90% of the cases, when the "13 year old" said she may not actually be pregnant, the "clinic" worker offered to supply her with birth control. So not only were they not trying to protect her from a sexual predator, but helping him to conceal his crimes against her. Representatives of Life Dynamics have also been informed by a number of abortion providers that, though they are fully aware of the law, they rarely have complied with it in the past and have little or no intention of complying in the future, even though it is common knowledge in law enforcement that men who prey upon children rarely, if ever, stop of their own. Statistics show that young girls who get sexually involved with adult men are much more likely to: *have multiple sex partners *engage in dangerous sexual behaviors *become pregnant *drop out of school *run away from home *abuse drugs or alcohol *end up on welfare *be estranged from friends and family *be in physically abusive relationships *become divorced *be lured into prostitution To learn more, see ChildPredators.com. |