Going beyond the favorable image evoked by its deceptive name and into the confines of Planned Parenthood facilities reveals the many cover-ups and lies that characterize the operation to kill babies by whatever means necessary in American abortion clinics.  Recently, Planned Parenthood chose to protect and put first the rights of statutory rapists, instead of upholding and looking out for the interests of their victims.

In a recent undercover investigative story, UCLA student Lila Rose posed as a fifteen-year-old pregnant girl to prepare a story for a pro-life student newspaper at UCLA.  At the Santa Monica Planned Parenthood office, Lila told the abortion facility staff that a 23-year-old man impregnated her.  During her visit, nurse practitioner and UCLA Health Center counselor Ann Brooks advised Rose to lie and claim that she was 16 years of age so that Planned Parenthood would not have to report the rape to authorities.  Withholding such information is a crime under California law.  In addition, H.R. 2673, signed into law by President Bush, states:

SEC. 212. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no provider of services under title X of the Public Health Service Act shall be exempt from any State law requiring notification or the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape or incest.

Planned Parenthood staff also told Lila that UCLA does not have the resources to support students who want to keep their babies.  Lila was instead encouraged by Nurse Brooks to use Medi-Cal, which is funded by California taxpayers, to fund her abortion.  Lila made a video recording of the visit, which was available for viewing on YouTube until threats of a lawsuit by Planned Parenthood surfaced. 

Another disturbing incident of Planned Parenthood covering up a rape is the case of the five-year sexual abuse of an Ohio girl that began when she was 13 and continued until she was 18.  Routinely raped by her father, the young girl in this case became pregnant and was forced to have an abortion at the age of 16.  At the Planned Parenthood facility in Cincinnati, Ohio, the girl reported the abuse to the staff, but the staff did not report her case to law enforcement officials.  It was not until the girl told a school counselor of the abuse that authorities became aware and then intervened.

Another incident of statutory rape occurred in late 2004.  A 14-year-old girl, sexually abused by her 21-year-old soccer coach, was taken by her abuser to Planned Parenthood for an abortion.  Despite the fact that the girl’s junior-high school I.D. was shown to staff members, and even though the coach paid with a credit card and showed his driver’s license, Planned Parenthood failed to report the incident to authorities.   

“Planned Parenthood appears to flout the law and help statutory rapists cover up their crime and then has the gall to claim to be ‘protecting’ the right to privacy,” said Wendy Wright, President of Concerned Women for America (CWA).  “Clearly it’s not the girls they are concerned about but fear of exposure of their own misdeeds.  Once again Planned Parenthood promotes ‘abortion rights’ to mean the rights of the abortionist, not the patient.”

Recent exposure of Planned Parenthood’s lies and cover-ups helps shatter the myth of Planned Parenthood as a respectable organization.  It’s a deception that has prevailed since its founding.  The racist intentions of Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood’s founder, were also covered up by the same emotional rhetoric used today — “better health” and “family planning.”

As the cases above show, Planned Parenthood is more than willing to go the extra mile in killing innocent babies.  With the help of past civil rights victories, the only difference in the motive of Planned Parenthood from past to present is the fact that the primary underlying motive has switched from extreme racism to money.  Yes, the evil that is behind the horrendous life-taking procedure of abortion will take many forms, and it is no wonder that from “behind closed doors” the truth will come to light.  As Ephesians 5:13 states, “But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.”