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Andrew Thomas Takes on Planned Parenthood - Planned Parenthood Admits It Doesn't Understand Statutory Rape

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May 20, 2009

 

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County

Attorney

Calls on Abortion Clinics to Report Sexual Abuse of Minors                       

Videotapes of Activities at Planned Parenthood Facilities at Issue

 

In response to recent events at local Planned Parenthood clinics, County Attorney Andrew Thomas is publicly calling on Planned Parenthood to report sexual abuse of minors to law enforcement and to train and instruct all staff members to do so.  Thomas has taken this action after an adult, posing as a 15-year-old impregnated by a much-older adult, visited two Planned Parenthood clinics and was offered an abortion for a fee at both facilities.  The encounters with Planned Parenthood were videotaped at two Phoenix Planned Parenthood Offices.

 

Under state law, A.R.S. § 13-3620, medical professionals, such as doctors and nurses, as well as people who are responsible for the care or treatment of a minor are required to report instances of sex crimes or abuse in which the victim is a minor.  Thomas is recommending that new legislation be passed to make clear the statute applies to nonprofessional employees and workers at medical or abortion clinics, such as clerical and triage staff, not just licensed medical professionals.

 

Thomas stated, “Medical professionals are required to notify law enforcement when they learn a child has been the victim of sexual abuse.  That obligation applies to those working at Planned Parenthood.  Planned Parenthood should honor the letter as well as the spirit of the law by plainly instructing their employees to report alleged sexual abuse of minors to the proper authorities, and by making sure these instructions are followed.”

 

Just prior to the release of these videos to the local news media, Planned Parenthood contacted the Phoenix Police Department and inquired about whether they could receive training on these matters.  The

County

Attorney

’s Office has notified Phoenix Police that prosecutors from its Sex Crime Bureau would be available and willing to fulfill this request in coordination with Phoenix Police.  However, Planned Parenthood has not responded to follow-up calls from Phoenix Police regarding this request for training.

 

 

 

Phoenix Bishop Admonishes Notre Dame President in Letter

Dear Fr. Jenkins,

I am saddened and heavy of heart about your decision to invite President Obama to speak at Notre Dame University and even to receive an honorary degree.

It is a public act of disobedience to the Bishops of the United States.  Our USCCB June 2004 Statement "Catholics in Political Life" states: "The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles.  They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions."  No one could not know of the public stands and actions of the president on key issues opposed to the most vulnderable human beings.

John Paul II said, "Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights - for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture - is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with the maximum determination."

I pray that you come to see the grave mistake of your decision, and the way that it undercuts the Church's proclamation of the Gospel of Life in our day.

Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted
Diocese of Phoenix

San Diego Firefighters Tortured Far Worse Than Abu Ghraib Inmates

  We all remember the barking dogs scaring the alleged terrorist inmates at Abu Ghraib, the infamous Iraqi prison where the US Military kept enemy combatants.  American liberals were in an uproar about the inmates having to endure the barking dogs and loud music. 
 
Abu Ghraib was a walk in the park compared to what 4 firefighters, who had been accused of no wrong doing of any sort, were forced to endure by their lesbian firechief in San Diego.  The four firefighters, who were not homosexuals, were forced to march in San Diego's infamously boorish gay pride parade and endure hundreds of unwanted taunts and sexual advances.

The firefighters sued, and won, but their boss, unlike the military person in charge at Abu Ghraib, is still in charge.  Where is the uproar from liberal gourps?  Read the story.

Mouse Gets $30 Million of Stimulus

Talk about a pet project. A tiny mouse with the longtime backing of a political giant Nancy Pelosi may soon reap the benefits of the economic-stimulus package.  Read story...

"Senator Obama talks about health care, but if you were me, you'd vote for McCain..."

 

"Where were you when I needed health care Senator Obama?" 

It's too late for me, but not millions of others.  They all depend on your vote." 

"The Economy is not the most important issue to me..."

  "The economy is not the most important issue to me.  I'm sorry about your 401k and the economy, perhaps even your job, but at least you have a chance to live.  Please, help those of us who Obama will exterminate.  We have no other voice than you."

Obama Will Eliminate All Pro-Child Laws

The following is an excert from a Newsweek article written by George Weigel

According to his own Web site, Obama supports the federal Freedom of Choice Act [FOCA], which would eliminate all state and federal regulation of abortion (such as informed consent and parental notification in the case of minors seeking an abortion); these regulations have demonstrably reduced the absolute number of abortions in the jurisdictions in which they are in effect. FOCA would also eliminate, by federal statute, state laws providing "conscience clause" protection for pro-life doctors who decline to provide abortions. Obama (along with the Democratic Party platform) supports federal funding for abortion, opposes the Hyde amendment (which restricts the use of taxpayer monies for abortion) and has pledged to repeal the "Mexico City policy" (initiated by Ronald Reagan and reinstated by George W. Bush, which bans federal foreign-aid funding for organizations that perform and promote abortion as a means of family planning). According to the pro-choice Web site RHRealityCheck.org, Obama also opposes continued federal funding for crisis pregnancy centers.

Then there is the continuing controversy over Obama's role in the Illinois state legislature when that body was considering an "infants born alive" protection act that would extend full legal protection to infants who survive a late-term abortion. According to the Annenberg Political Fact Check, Obama opposed the 2001 and 2002 Illinois "born alive" bills on the grounds that they were attempts to undermine Roe vs. Wade but said he would have supported an Illinois bill similar to the federal "born alive" legislation signed by President Bush in 2002. Yet, according to Annenberg, "Obama voted in committee against the 2003 state bill that was nearly identical to the federal bill he says he would have supported." However one sorts out the conflicting claims in this often-bitter debate, in which charges of infanticide and lying have been hurled, there can be no doubt that Barack Obama did not make his own the cause of legal protection for infants who survive an abortion.

California 1st Grade Teacher Takes Students To Her Same Sex "Marriage" During School

The San Francisco mayor performed the gay "marriage" ceremony while the school's director treated the kids whose parents wouldn't let them go as outcasts, making them feel ashamed for not going to the ceremony.  You just can't make this stuff up.  It's beyond outrageous.  Public school political indoctrination and correctness is gotten waaaaay out of control.

Vote Yes on Proposition 102 in Arizona to prevent the abuse of our children.

Connecticut Court: Obese People OK In Exit Row?

This week we heard form the courts in Connecticut that discrimination is bad...it hurts people's feelings.  As such, the court in Connecticut decided that mammals, other than one man and one woman, may marry.  How wonderful that Connecticut sees fit to redefine the millennia-old institution that is marriage.

Based on the ruling, one can only wait for the slew of other alleged discrimination suits that will arise.  Pedophiles will now be suing to become elementary school teachers.  Inmates may sue to regain freedom based on any number of discriminatory reasons.  And perhaps most horrific, exit rows will no longer be the sole domain of the relatively physically fit.  Instead, people weighing several hundred pounds - good people mind you - will be allowed to jeopardize the safety of hundreds of people on airplanes, just so they can feel better about themselves.  Smokers will soon be able to smoke in hospitals.  Women will be able to use the men's room and vice-versa.  Children will be able to drink and drive, though not simultaneously.

So let's all thank the Connecticut court for redefining the millennia-old institution of marriage in order to ban discrimination.  They have opened yet another chapter that is the humorous Pandora's box of anti-discrimination-of-any-kind political correctness.

Cancer Survivor Against Komen Race For the Cure

Local conservative activist and cancer survivor David Roney is speaking out against the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.  Roney, who recently founded Survivors For Life, an organization of cancer survivors who oppose embryonic stem cell research, opposes the Komen Foundation's duping race participants into believing that their donations go to cure breast cancer. 

The Komen Foundation, as a result of donations received from the Race for the Cure, donates a considerable amount of the money they raise to Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest and most profitable abortion provider.  In fact, there has long been a tight relationship between Komen and Planned Parenthood.  Further, the Komen Foundation, despite all scientific evidence indicating a link between abortion and breast cancer, refuses to acknowledge any such link.  In addition to funding Planned Parenthood, Komen uses a majority of the donations for cancer screening instead of researching a cure. 

Roney wants the Komen Foundation to use the funds raised as advertised - too cure breast cancer, not fund abortion.  Until they do, Roney will continue to educate people about the sinister duplicity of the Komen Foundation's Race for the Cure.