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Sexual Predators and Abuse

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.




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