Denton, TX- In a stunning undercover investigation, Life Dynamics a Texas based pro-life organization, claims to have discovered a nauseating wave of illegal conduct burrowed deep between the lines of both Planned Parenthood (PP) and the National Abortion Federation (NAF). The group concluded a lengthy investigation into the epidemic of teen pregnancy with a luminous five-week undercover sting that netted some 800 plus secretly recorded conversations.
The tapes (several of which can be heard through their web site: www.ldi.org) appear to reveal that the two pro-abortion organizations routinely violate child protection laws by intentionally failing to report the discovery of illicit sexual relations between underage girls and adult men to the appropriate authorities. Instead, claims Life Dynamics, the pro-choice groups looked the other way to generate business.
In what are being promoted as some of the strongest possible object lessons for parental consent laws, Life Dynamics is alleging that the tapes profile PP and NAF counselors willfully determining to suppress the sexual exploitation of juveniles and shield the men who commit these crimes. They further claim to have unearthed a menacing body of statistical evidence through their research, establishing a blatant failure to comply with mandatory reporting laws on the part of the two organizations.
Long time pro-life leader and activist, Mark Crutcher, Founder and President of Life Dynamics, Inc. told The Word, "We have uncovered the largest criminal enterprise in American history. Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation are harboring men who exploit underage girls for sexual gratification and using millions of our tax dollars to do it."
The sting was essentially a survey of over 800 NAF and PP facilities across the country, that were called by someone portraying a 13 year old girl who had become pregnant by her 22 year old boyfriend. Her cover story was that she wanted an abortion because she did not want her parents to find out about the sexual relationship. Life Dynamics says that in every call the ages of the girl and her boyfriend were made perfectly clear, as well as her concern of the authorities and her parents uncovering her sexual activity with an adult. In addition, the group maintains that nothing was ever said to suggest that the girl's parents would become abusive if they discovered her sexual activity.
According to Crutcher, the results of the survey were appalling with many of the clinic workers deliberately agreeing to conceal this unhealthy sexual activity, though readily acknowledging the situation was illegal and that they were required by law to report it to the state. In addition, some employees of the organizations went as far as to coach the Life Dynamics caller on how to avoid detection, circumvent applicable parental involvement laws and what or what not to say when she came to the clinic.
Crutcher draws the salient analogy of clerks in a convenient store chain being caught on tape instructing minors how to evade laws enacted to protect them from the dangers of alcohol and tobacco so the store could sell them more beer and cigarettes. Or again, gun dealers discovered to be teaching minors how to purchase handguns. "If this were to happen in every state of the union, it would mirror what children experience at clinics across America, based on the Life Dynamics tapes."
Although each call and response was unique, and each scenario subject to applicable state laws, the tapes are said to divulge a glut of alarming dynamics. For example in states allowing "Judicial Bypass" of parental notification for abortion, the minor was often informed about this option while also instructed not to tell the judge about the age of her boyfriend. Additionally, there are alleged to be some instances where employees even encouraged the girls to lie to the judge if specifically asked for that information, or directed them to neighboring states that had no parental involvement requirements.
And while some of the calls found employees encouraging the girls to bring in an adult old enough to impersonate a parent to sign for her, according to Life Dynamics, other, even more egregious developments unfolded. In these situations, the employee would not react at all to the "age issue" prompting the caller to ask outright if it was a problem. Frequently the response included instructions to keep her mouth shut when arriving for her abortion, or that the facility had no interest in the ages of the parties and would accept whatever they were told at face value. "In the final analysis," said Life Dynamics, "virtually every PP and NAF facility we contacted was willing to illegally conceal the sexual abuse of this 13 year old girl."
An even more disturbing trend said to be discernible on the tapes, is an apparent willingness by clinic employees to nourish the ongoing criminal sexual activity by supplying birth control to the young girls. According to Life Dynamics, employees agreed to provide birth control products even after correctly identifying the situation as sexual abuse or statutory rape, thereby concealing and facilitating what was clearly understood to be an illegal relationship.
Because the laws in each state are unique, Life Dynamics is compiling their evidence of these crimes into a half-hour tape for each state, thus streamlining the process for law enforcement officials and governing bodies. The real impact of this work will come from the steadily gathering wave of civil lawsuits and criminal actions that result from this project, which promise to crest into a tsunami. And it has already begun.
Last December, a WorldNetDaily news story reported that a judge found Planned Parenthood negligent in its failure to report a 13 year-old girl's abortion to Child Protective Services in Phoenix, Arizona. According to the article, the girl was having a sexual relationship with her 23 year-old foster brother by whom she was impregnated twice. Subsequently, she had two abortions some six months apart at a Planned Parenthood facility with the abortion provider failing to notify police or the CPS upon the first procedure.
Her attorney argued that the provider's negligence resulted in continued molestation and exploitation, and led to her second abortion. In addition, a psychological analysis established that the 13 year-old was immature for her age and emotionally scarred by the relationship. The court agreed, with Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Cathy Holt ruling that the abortion provider was negligent for failing to notify authorities when the girl first came in.
At this point, Life Dynamics has also had its evidence submitted on behalf of pending legal action in Alaska where it was recently accepted by a court there.
And while legions of pro-choice supporters may be crying: "foul," in lieu of the cunning and calculating way Life Dynamics busted its move on them, there is a disturbing similarity between the nature of these suits and the firestorm of litigation igniting throughout the Catholic Church with respect to pedophile priests. Many dioceses have either settled or lost lawsuits totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, in some cases forcing them to sell off property, close schools and even consider bankruptcy to satisfy the enormous awards.
The heartbeat of these actions is not the molestation of the children, as reprehensible as it is, but rather on the church's negligence for allegedly knowing about it, but refusing to report it to the authorities. Thus, the suits contend that by protecting pedophile priests and concealing their behavior, the dioceses were in effect guaranteeing additional future victims.
If organizations or individuals that harbor pedophiles and conceal the sexual abuse of children are justifiably at risk of prosecution, then the rigorous, even-handed application of the same legal standard enforced against the Catholic Church could spawn an unimaginable surge of individual law suits or potentially, one of the largest class-actions in history.
Life Dynamics is exploring a number of creative ways to bring the battle into American courtrooms, expand it from a public relations standpoint and educate the public on a number of key fronts. "What is already clear," says the group, "is that this is a tragedy of enormous proportions. When young girls are sexually abused like this, they lose their innocence, their childhood, their dignity and sometimes even their lives."
No wonder Time Magazine has noted that the emergence of Life Dynamics "has many abortion-rights supporters worried." They play a mean game of hardball and throw as good as they catch!
