# Planned parenthood hides rape of 13 year-old girl **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 5, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planned-parenthood-hides-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/475930 "2008-12-05T23:37:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planned-parenthood-hides-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/475930/21 "2008-12-06T00:35:50Z")
> [@Euthanasiast](#): > > Forget I posted here. Nah I’d rather make you realize you can’t go around making outrageously false accusatory statements in order to pull people into your personal crusade. If you want to have a real discussion about that video, frame it rationally. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planned-parenthood-hides-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/475930/22 "2008-12-06T00:35:55Z")
> [@Euthanasiast](#): > > You’re right. It was just RO. I had no reason to be outraged. I mean, it isn’t like someone’s cat was kicked or something. > > Forget I posted here. But in this case, it WASN’T PP, it was ONE individual nurse-AND she was suspended. AND how about you address the people who did said sting in the first place-what the HELL was their purpose? ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planned-parenthood-hides-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/475930/23 "2008-12-06T00:37:06Z")
> [@Euthanasiast](#): > > I already said that. Where? If you’re referring to a post (#4?), the title is still the same. A mod can change titles for you. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planned-parenthood-hides-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/475930/24 "2008-12-06T00:37:15Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > Yes please change “rape” to “imagined statutory rape” and “13 year-old girl” to “20 year-old actress claiming to be 13” and then you can have your thread. Or would that not be salacious enough for you? Has the OP yet requested that the thread title be changed to “Planned Parenthood employee suspended for allegedly covering up rape allegation”? If the claims in this case are true, the nurse was wrong. If there are any PP offices where workers are encouraged (or excused) for not reporting allegations of criminal activity involving underaged patients, that would be abhorrent. Somehow I doubt that’s the case. I expect Planned Parenthood to follow high standards for truthfully advising clients and following the law. That’s been the history of this organization, in marked contrast to those who demonize it. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planned-parenthood-hides-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/475930/25 "2008-12-06T00:37:22Z")
I, for one, welcome our 13-year-old rapist overlords. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planned-parenthood-hides-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/475930/26 "2008-12-06T02:03:37Z")
Planned parenthood is the only reason why I was able to join Peace Corps. Peace Corps has a very difficult medical screening process, and I was uninsured. I actually had doctors hang up on me, even when I said I’d pay out of pocket. Nobody would see me even if I’d pay them cash upfront. But Planned Parenthood saw me. And they only charged me a reasonable fee based on my income. It’s only because of them that I was able to do the best thing I’ve ever done. They also provided me with birth control, STD tests and PAP smears for years when I was uninsured. No hassle. No fuss. They treated me with respect and put my health first, not my money. So frankly, I don’t care if Planned Parenthood does human sacrifice of a 13 year old girl now and then. They do a hell of a lot of good. More than you even know- did you know they provide primary care to uninsured people? I don’t see the Christian Right providing health care to uninsured people. I don’t see them caring at all. Every time I went to Planned Parenthood for my Peace Corps stuff I’d have to walk by those protesters with their bloody fetus signs. What are they doing to help anyone? What is their big plan for the uninsured? Fucking assholes. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planned-parenthood-hides-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/475930/27 "2008-12-06T02:15:47Z")
BTW, I believe Planned Parenthood also does pre-natal care for those who ARE expecting. They’re not just there for abortion. (And for birth control, for that matter). ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planned-parenthood-hides-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/475930/28 "2008-12-06T02:43:48Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > BTW, I believe Planned Parenthood also does pre-natal care for those who ARE expecting. They’re not just there for abortion. (And for birth control, for that matter). The last time I went (now that I am uninsured, I go to PP for my BCP and pelvic exams; my doc even looks after my PCOS and monitors my cholesterol, etc) there were no less than 2 women in there with their kids. It made the protesters out front look awfully funny. They offer prenatal care, postnatal care, child care. My doc there is wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planned-parenthood-hides-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/475930/29 "2008-12-06T03:07:37Z")
> [@wring](#): > > I know of stings by the local cops about alcohol sales, they’ll bring in some one who may appear to be of age, but barely, and lacks ID, to check if the clerk asks for ID ( **They’re supposed to if some one even appears to be under 30** )… At least in New Mexico, the bolded portion above is store policy, not state law. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planned-parenthood-hides-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/475930/30 "2008-12-06T03:15:36Z")
I love PP, too. I don’t feel like getting into the grisly details, but I truly feel they saved my butt. I had health care from them, too, when I couldn’t afford anything else. ---
**Author:** ![John\_H\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@John\_H\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_H_1)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planned-parenthood-hides-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/475930/31 "2008-12-06T03:52:30Z")
> [@](#): > > So is that to say that you think it should be okay for a 13 year-old girl to choose a sex partner that is 31? For what it’s worth the age of consent in the Vatican City is 12. I don’t have enough experience to make my own judgment about what the age of consent should be, but it seems that the US is more conservative than most countries. In my stereotype of American culture sex seems to be more repressed and viewed negatively. I have a hard time faulting somebody (in this case the nurse) for giving a person a bit more respect and freedom than they should legally. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planned-parenthood-hides-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/475930/32 "2008-12-06T04:17:45Z")
Was the “teen” there to request an abortion? In any case, what’s the required reaction if a (supposedly) juvenile patient blurts out that they have an adult sexual partner? Any chance acting on the information runs afoul of confidentiality requirements? Any chance a nurse might’ve heard boasts before about “my older boyfriend” and found out they were lies, only after making a big deal about it? Frankly, I’m having trouble seeing what the big deal is, but I’m not one to fret about age-of-consent laws or anti-abortion frothery. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planned-parenthood-hides-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/475930/33 "2008-12-06T05:23:33Z")
> [@John H](#): > > In my stereotype of American culture sex seems to be more repressed and viewed negatively. You don’t get out much, do you? ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planned-parenthood-hides-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/475930/34 "2008-12-06T06:37:40Z")
> [@Euthanasiast](#): > > Forget I posted here. I wish I could since I am so tired of people who do these stings and folks that have to spread the word. Leave Planned Parenthood alone - they are the only sane voice in the wilderness of fully accepted and in many cases supported teen pregnancy, three and four generation welfare mothers and insanity like the Duggars. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planned-parenthood-hides-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/475930/35 "2008-12-06T06:40:42Z")
> [@](#): > > **Euthanasiaist** : You aren’t curious as to how many times the possibility existed that this nurse has done something like this previous to this time? How many times has the 20 year old woman gone to a Planned Parenthood and wasted their valuable time with her lies? **What was her purpose** in doing this activity? Was she trying to trip up nurses who put more value on keeping the “child’s” pregnancy confidential? You aren’t curious? Sometimes the person means more than the law that was meant to serve that person and you have to be the one to make that decision. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planned-parenthood-hides-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/475930/36 "2008-12-06T06:50:08Z")
This girl should be brought up on accounts of fraud in addition to the censure of the nurse. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planned-parenthood-hides-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/475930/37 "2008-12-06T06:52:24Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > I wish I could since I am so tired of people who do these stings and folks that have to spread the word. Leave Planned Parenthood alone - they are the only sane voice in the wilderness of fully accepted and in many cases supported teen pregnancy, three and four generation welfare mothers and insanity like the Duggars. It’s always weird to me that a family that can support their children is lambasted so often. I feel sorry for the Duggars and for their children that you are actively wishing had never been born. Sometimes I wish that people who believed the world is overpopulated and that OTHER people should be doing something about it would take matters into their own hands and reduce their contribution to overpopulation by 1. ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planned-parenthood-hides-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/475930/38 "2008-12-06T08:41:45Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > So frankly, I don’t care if Planned Parenthood does human sacrifice of a 13 year old girl now and then. They do a hell of a lot of good. QFT ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planned-parenthood-hides-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/475930/39 "2008-12-06T12:12:18Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > In any case, what’s the required reaction if a (supposedly) juvenile patient blurts out that they have an adult sexual partner? Any chance acting on the information runs afoul of confidentiality requirements? I don’t know a damn thing about HIPPA but I believe they ARE supposed to report it. I don’t like the message it sends though. “Come seek needed medical care and we’ll throw your boyfriend in jail!” ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planned-parenthood-hides-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/475930/40 "2008-12-06T15:29:04Z")
> [@Stuffy](#): > > I’m outraged, but not for the same reason the Op is. This video represents exactly why I’ll never support parental notification abortion laws, because this is precisely why so-called Christians want them. This. This whole thing is total bullshit. Why are you so interested in other peoples’ fake sex lives anyway, Euthanasiast? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planned-parenthood-hides-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/475930.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planned-parenthood-hides-rape-of-13-year-old-girl/475930.md?page=3)