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A Planned Parenthood branch in Birmingham, Ala., has been put on probation by the state health department for breaking the state’s abortion consent law and refusing to notify authorities of suspected child abuse cases.
The violations were discovered after officials investigated a videotape in which an employee admitted the manager sometimes would “bend the rules.”
The action by the Alabama Department of Health was based on a 38-page report that found that the business’s own records revealed it provided an abortion to a 15-year-old although the “mother” giving consent did not have the same last name or address and provided an expired driver’s license as ID.
Records for other patients, mostly ages 13 and 14, also revealed the business failed to document properly the identification of those giving parental permission under the state law for the abortions.
In fact, in all nine cases examined by the state involving minor patients, Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, “failed to obtain parental consent … in a manner that complies with state legal requirements.”
Worse yet was the conclusion that “neither the registered nurse, the medical doctor, nor any other center staff reported the suspected abuse or neglect [of a 13 year-old child] to the authorities as required by law.”
The investigation was launched after a video was submitted to authorities by the student-led nonprofit Live Action. Its undercover video of the Birmingham abortion clinic revealed a staffer suggesting the law be ignored.
As WND reported, the recording revealed a counselor at Planned Parenthood, telling a volunteer, who describes herself as a 14-year-old statutory rape victim, the clinic “does sometimes bend the rules a little bit.”
Sex between an adult and a 14-year-old is a felony in Alabama. The pro-life organization said the Birmingham clinic was the seventh Planned Parenthood clinic implicated in a multi-state scandal over the suppression of statutory rape evidence.
Lila Rose, a UCLA student and Live Action’s president, went undercover at the Birmingham business and told a counselor she was 14, pregnant by her “31-year-old boyfriend,” and she couldn’t let her parents know.
Rose asks, “Is it a problem about my boyfriend?”
The counselor, identified as “Tanishia,” concludes, “As long as you consented to having sex with him, there’s nothing we can truly do about that.”
“Tanishia” acknowledges the “boyfriend” could be in big trouble because of the ages and then tells Rose the clinic manager “sometimes does bend the rules a little bit.”
The counselor also confirms that whatever is said within the Planned Parenthood walls stays there.
However, Live Action said, Alabama Code 26-14-3 requires health professionals to disclose suspected cases of sexual abuse to state officials immediately.
“The law is explicit about a health-care provider’s duty to report, yet Planned Parenthood pretends they cannot say anything,” Rose noted of the investigation. “Planned Parenthood increases its business and influence by circumventing state reporting laws, but inflicts terrible harm upon the vulnerable young girls sent back to statutory rapists.”
The video was part of Live Action’s “Mona Lisa Project,” a nationwide undercover investigation that documented Planned Parenthood’s repeated noncompliance with state mandatory reporting laws for sexual abuse of minors.
Rick Harris, the director of health provider standards for the state regulatory agency, told the Birmingham News that the failure to notify about potential child abuse was a concern.
“If she was being abused, you give her a chance to be rescued from that situation,” he told the newspaper.
Planned Parenthood did not respond to a request from WND for comment.
“The Health Department report documents the same malpractice that we have found in state after state,” Rose said. “Sexually abused minors are being neglected by Planned Parenthood, which puts its own ‘abortion-first mentality’ before child protection.
“These are outrageous violations of state law and the Alabama Health Department should revoke the Birmingham Planned Parenthood clinic license. Alabama legislators must also ensure that no tax money is funding Planned Parenthood’s illicit activities,” she said.