Parental Notification

Why We Need Parental Notification

In 1999, Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of abortions performed on women and young underage girls, hired the ACLU to act as counsel to challenge the NJ parental notification law which passed both houses of the legislature by overwhelming majorities. This modest law would allow one parent to be informed before a minor had an abortion in NJ. It contained a judicial bypass procedure and a number of other exemptions. State Superior Court rebuffed Planned Parenthood’s argumens and ruled the law was constitutional. Unhappy with the Court’s decision and determined to find a court that was sympathetic to their position, Planned Parenthood and the ACLU appealed the decision to the NJ Supreme Court which struck down the law.

Most recently, Planned Parenthood was caught on tape covering up the sexual abuse of minors who were impregnanted by older adult men. Read the column below and view the video which is based on a true story of a mother and young daughter’s pain and anguish which resulted because there is no parental notification law in California. During the legislative process here in NJ, Planned Parenthood and the ACLU presented themselves as advocates of underage minor girls who argued that notifying a parent might put a young pregnant girl at risk of being abused by her parents. The majority of the legislature rejected Planned Parenthood’s arguments, in large part, because they recognized that Planned Parenthood makes a hefty profit from performing abortions on minors. With the revelation of these new facts, the question that needs to be asked is, who is protecting our minor daughters from Planned Parenthood and its defenders?

Call your state legislators now! Urge them to pass a parental notification constitutional amendment so underage girls in NJ can be protected from this profit driven abortion industry.

View the video, click here.

Exposing Planned Parenthood’s Abortion-Rape Coverup: Muckraking in Action

by Michelle Malkin
May 21, 2007

LifeNews.com Note: Michelle Malkin is a syndicated columnist and the author of books such as Unhinged and In Defense of Internment.
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Here is a tale of two breeds of undercover journalists. One has been celebrated by the national media and journalism organizations. The other has been shunned. One has champions in Congress. The other is facing litigation.

Both engaged in sting operations with secret cameras catching their targets on videotape. Both were deceptive about their true identities and life circumstances. Both exposed their targets’ aggressive methods and law-subverting recruitment tactics. But you’ve probably only heard of the efforts of one of these breeds. You’ll know why in a moment.

In 2005, David McSwane, a high school honors student in Colorado, posed as a dropout and druggie.

“I wanted to do something cool, go undercover and do something unusual,” he told the Rocky Mountain News. McSwane deliberately failed a high school equivalency test, caught recruiters on tape driving him to purchase a detox kit and reported that they urged him to obtain a phony diploma. A local CBS station picked up the story – prompting the Army to shut down its recruiting stations nationwide for ethics training.

McSwane earned a “laurel” from the prestigious Columbia Journalism Review “for conduct most becoming” and announced he was headed to journalism school. His reporting garnered attention from the New York Times to Editor and Publisher.

No such laurels have been awarded to Lila Rose, however.

Rose is an 18-year-old student journalist at UCLA. Like McSwane and his breed of undercover reporters, she surreptitiously infiltrated a massive organization that enlists young people. Like McSwane and his breed of undercover reporters, Rose exposed deceptive practices. Rose posed as a 15-year-old seeking the services and advice of her target. Like McSwane and his breed of undercover reporters, she caught her targets urging her to lie and evade the law in order to sign her up.

But Rose’s target was the Left’s beloved Planned Parenthood, not the military. And that has made all the difference in the nonexistent national coverage of her undercover journalism. Rose edits The Advocate, a pro-life campus publication of the student group Live Action. She posed as a minor impregnated by a 23-year-old boyfriend and caught a Planned Parenthood employee advising her to lie about her age to relieve the abortion provider from a legal obligation to report statutory rape to the police.

“If you’re 15, we have to report it,” the staffer told Rose in a secretly taped video. “If you’re not, if you’re older than that, then we don’t need to.”

“OK, but if I just say I’m not 15, then it’s different?” Rose queried.

“You could say 16,” the worker helpfully suggested. “Just figure out a birth date that works. And I don’t know anything.”

Other than coverage from a few pro-life groups and conservative Web sites, Rose’s stunning revelations have received virtually no mainstream media attention. And no calls from lawmakers for investigations of Planned Parenthood’s predatory tactics and practices – which also have been caught on tape in other states by undercover citizen investigators.

Instead, Rose faces threats of a lawsuit by Planned Parenthood, which sent her a cease-and-desist letter and had the appalling nerve this week to lecture Rose about the need “to be more respectful of California laws,” according to the conservative Cybercast News Service.

Where are the muckraking champions when you need them? Lila Rose has learned the hard way: Not all undercover journalists are equal.

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