Consequences of Secret Abortions without Notification of Parents or Police
A Planned Parenthood affiliate
in Arizona was found civilly liable for failing to report the fact that the clinic
had performed an abortion on a 12-year-old girl who had been impregnated by her
foster brother. The abortion provider did not report the crime, and the young girl
was returned to the foster home where she was raped and impregnated a second time.
A 12–year-old, mentally
challenged Texas girl was repeatedly sexually assaulted by her mother’s live-in
boyfriend. Twice these assaults resulted in the girl becoming pregnant. Both times,
the perpetrator forced her to have an abortion. Although both abortions took place
at the same clinic, the clinic did not report the abuse until after the second abortion
took place. After the crime was uncovered, the perpetrator was sentenced to approximately
30 years in prison.
An Oregon abortion clinic
provided an abortion to an eleven-year-old, yet failed to report the sexual abuse
as required by state law. The abuse was disclosed to law enforcement only because
the abortion was incomplete and the girl was subsequently taken to the hospital
where a doctor reported the abuse.
In Connecticut the case
of a ten-year-old girl who was impregnated by a seventy-five-year-old man went unreported.
The child was examined by two physicians, but neither reported the sexual abuse
to public authorities as required by Connecticut law.
A thirty-six-year-old Nebraska
man went so far as to impersonate the father of the sixteen-year-old girl he had
impregnated in an attempt to obtain an abortion, and thus hide any evidence of their
illegal relationship.
A 12-year-old Pennsylvania
girl was provided alcohol by an adult male who then raped her while she was unconscious.
Days after her 13th birthday, the perpetrator’s mother took her to an
abortion clinic in another state, paid for the abortion, and then dropped her off
30 miles away from home. Meanwhile, the girl’s mother had contacted the state police
when she found her daughter was missing. The police located the girl, who was suffering
severe post-abortion complications, complications which could have led to her death
had she not been returned to her mother, who quickly arranged for her treatment
by a local gynecologist.
A father in California came
home unexpectedly early from work one day to find his 15-year-old daughter had tried
to commit suicide by drug overdose. Only in that way did he learn that the girl
had been impregnated by her 33-year-old karate instructor. When this predator found
out his victim was pregnant, he told her he would commit suicide if she didn’t have
an abortion. So, against her wishes and her deeply held belief that abortion was
murder, she had the abortion. Because of the grief and guilt she attempted suicide.
Had her father not come home earlier than usual that day, she would have succeeded.
A 13-year-old Ohio girl
was impregnated by her high school coach, who then “persuaded” her to have an abortion.
Planned Parenthood did not report the abuse, nor did it comply with the state’s
own parental notification law. Three days after the abortion, the perpetrator resumed
having sex with the girl, and then abandoned her. Only months later did the parents
learn what had happened. The perpetrator is serving a prison sentence; Planned Parenthood
disclaims all responsibility and is fighting a lawsuit by the parents.