Indiana Pro-Lifers Demand Abortionists be Investigated for Not Reporting Minors’ Abortions

By Calvin Freiburger
Life Site News

Indiana Right to Life (IRTL) held news conferences across the state Wednesday calling for an investigation into whether Indiana abortionists are reporting abortions on girls younger than 16 as required by law.

“Forty-eight consumer complaints have been filed against nine Indiana abortion doctors who have allegedly failed to follow the legal reporting requirements to protect young children from sex abuse,” the group said in a press release.

It named several abortionists covering every licensed abortion facility in the state.

"The doctors are: Jeffrey Glazer, Caitlin Bernard, Cassandra Cashman, Carol Dellinger, Mandy Gittler, Kathleen Glover, Martin Haskell, Resad Pasic and Sarah Turner. They are employed at all licensed Indiana abortion facilities: Women’s Med Center in Indianapolis, Clinic for Women in Indianapolis, and Planned Parenthood in Indianapolis, Lafayette, Bloomington and Merrillville," the group stated.

"We call on the Indiana Medical Licensing Board, the Indiana State Department of Health and local prosecutors to take appropriate action against these abortion doctors, including review of their medical licenses and fines for each non-report. Possible cover-up of child sexual abuse cannot be tolerated. An immediate suspension of licenses for abortion facilities may be in order pending a complete investigation,” it added.

The press conferences took place outside of the Monroe County Courthouse in Bloomington and Planned Parenthood facilities in Lafayette and Merrillville, in the in the North Atrium of the State Capitol Building, and in the easement across from Whole Woman's Health in South Bend.

IRTL also released an example of those complaints, alleging that Jeffrey Glazer of Women’s Medical Center performed an abortion on a 12-year-old girl and failed to report it. Glazer, recently listed as the medical director for a proposed abortion facility in South Bend that was denied a license application, is the subject of eleven complaints.

All the complaints have been filed with Republican Attorney General Curtis Hill and the state Department of Health, and prosecutors in Marion, Lake, Tippecanoe and Monroe counties have been notified, IRTL added.

“In the era of #MeToo and #TimesUp, we’re demanding answers and action,” IRTL Vice President of Policy Enforcement Cathie Humbarger said. “The 48 complaints represent a widespread problem throughout Indiana’s abortion industry.”

“The average age for a child to be groomed is 11 years old; the average age for a child to be taken into trafficking is 15,” noted Crista Miller, the head of Giving Teens Grace, an Indiana nonprofit dedicated to teaching kids and parents to guard against predators. “We have to step up and protect the children of Indiana with bold and immediate action against any clinic or staff found not reporting underage abortions.”

Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky (PPINK) are claiming innocence in response. “We adhere to Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) reporting requirements and follow best public health practices to ensure that patients receive the help they need,” PPINK Communications and Marketing Director Ali Slocum said in a statement. “We cooperate fully with all ISDH inspections and immediately address any issues that officials share with us.”

The effort follows the pro-life group Live Action’s ongoing documentation of Planned Parenthood officials across the United States neglecting to report signs of child sex crimes.

In addition to highlighting documented cases of actual victims and undercover video capturing Planned Parenthood workers’ disinterest in apparent child rape and sex trafficking, Live Action’s “Aiding Abusers” series also features the firsthand accounts of former insiders describing a culture of indifference within the organization.

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When I Worked at Planned Parenthood There was a ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Mentality About Sex Trafficking

By Ramona Trevino
Live Action News

There’s one story that still continues to haunt me from my time as a Planned Parenthood manager, both as a mother and as a human being, after all these years. It’s a story of a fifteen-year-old girl who came into my Planned Parenthood family planning center. It was peculiar situation but not uncommon, I’m sure. It’s only now in hindsight that I look back with shame and a great sense of culpability.

This story goes like this: A father called my clinic for an appointment for his daughter. He asked lots of questions over the phone to ensure that he was allowed to bring her in and that we wouldn’t notify the girl’s mother. He and mom were divorced, he said, and his daughter was in his custody when she had sex for the first time and contracted herpes. I proceeded to tell him that it was no problem at all, and that he was doing the right thing by bringing her in to see us.

The day she arrived in our center is one I’ll never forget. This young girl was in so much pain that she couldn’t even sit down. She winced as she struggled to sit in one of the lobby chairs. After paperwork was filled out, we called her back into the exam room where she was tested, treated, and sent on her way with some form of birth control.

The Author, Ramona Trevino

Six years later, I’m still deeply troubled by what happened that day. We did nothing to ensure that the man who brought this young girl in was indeed her father. We didn’t ask for identification. We didn’t ask for anything. We “cleaned” her up and sent her back out again.

It was only later that I would watch undercover footage obtained by Live Action showing Planned Parenthood employees willing to aid and abet sex traffickers.

After seeing that undercover investigation, I wondered about that young girl at my center. Was she being sex trafficked? Was her father really her father? And if so, was he the one who infected her with herpes? These are questions I still ask myself after all these years.

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Federal Funds to Fight Sex Trafficking Could Go to Big Abortion Businesses, Say Activists

By Samuel Smith
Christian Post

Pro-life advocates are warning that Senate Republicans have included a provision in the critically important National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that could enable millions of dollars designated to fight sex trafficking to be used to promote or fund abortion.

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., introduced legislation last year called the End Modern Slavery Initiative Act (EMSI), which essentially would create a congressionally chartered non-profit, public-private entity that would receive funding from the United States government, foreign governments and businesses to give to organizations to help end human trafficking around the world.

Although such an intergovernmental private-public partnership might seem like a no-brainer, pro-life organizations are opposing the legislation because it does not include basic pro-life protections to guarantee that money will not be used to fund or promote abortion.

"All money that is appropriated by Congress is subject to long-standing prohibitions on those funds being used for abortion," said Micah Johnson, communications director for Corker, to The Christian Post.

"Most significantly, the Helms Amendment applies to foreign assistance funds and states that 'no funds … may be used to pay for the performance of abortion as a method of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortions.' All of the funds authorized in the National Defense Authorization Act flow through the appropriations process, which are fully covered by the Helms restriction," he explained.

According to the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, Corker successfully lobbied Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., to add language from the EMSI legislation to the must-pass NDAA that would create the aforementioned entity and provide $37.5 million per year in U.S. taxpayer dollars without pro-life protections.

A March for Life press release explains that the lack of pro-life protections could mean that recipients of the funds would likely be big abortion corporations instead of "groups holistically dedicated to fighting the scourge of trafficking."

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