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Posted on 05/10/2007 4:29:14 PM PDT by wagglebee
Los Angeles, CA (LifeNews.com) -- More details are emerging in a case where a counselor at the UCLA student health center advised a pregnant student to have an abortion. The woman in the case, a pro-life student posing as a pregnant teenager, says Planned Parenthood attempted to advise her to disguise statutory rape. In an undercover investigative story for a student-run newspaper, UCLA student Lila Rose posed as a pregnant 15 year-old and entered a Santa Monica Planned Parenthood.
She told officials there that a 23 year old man had impregnated her and her article in The Advocate newspaper says PP staff assured Rose that if she said she was 16 or older, they wouldn't have to report the rape.
The abortion facility staff encouraged her to "figure out a birth-date that works," to obtain the abortion and avoid getting the man in trouble with the police.
"California's mandatory reporting laws for statutory rape are supposed to protect pregnant minors," Rose told LifeNews.com in a statement Thursday.
"Underage girls are being targeted by predators, and Planned Parenthood is busy covering up the evidence. How many other rapes has this one clinic covered up?" she asked.
The story appears in the second issue of the newspaper and the first one had details about the UCLA case.
In that situation, the counselor told Rose, who again claimed to be pregnant, that the college has no resources available for students keeping their babies. The counselor also encouraged the student to get the state health system to pay for the abortion.
The advice came from Ann Brooks, nurse practitioner and counselor at the UCLA Health Center.
Rose said the counseling was entirely aimed at encouraging an abortion -- thinking that was the only option to help her stay in school. The student said Brooks also advised her to use Medi-Cal to fund her abortion with taxpayer funds.
"I have a place I can send you where they will get you signed up for Medi-Cal coverage and they just don't ask," the counselor reportedly said.
Brooks allegedly said Rose should have an abortion because of a lack of support for pregnancies on campus and the discomforts of pregnancy.
"Most of the students I talk to terminate their pregnancies," Brooks said, describing the unborn child as "a collection of cells."
She added that Rose could expect "physical difficulties" during pregnancy and the "embarrassment of your classmates" as a pregnant student living in the school dorms.
Brooks said "UCLA doesn't support people who are pregnant and make things easier for them necessarily."
In comments to LifeNews.com on Thursday, Rose said UCLA has use articles in the Daily Bruin, the official campus newspaper, "as a front to defend its image as an unbiased, plentiful pregnancy care resource."
"When women are given politically charged opinions from their counselor, and told that abortion at UCLA is the most feasible option for them, there aren't many 'choices' open for women. The administration is choosing for women, putting them in a situation where their only choice is to abort," said Rose.
Rose hopes that the second issue of The Advocate will open eyes to the need for better pregnancy counseling and pregnancy resource awareness and put pressure on the school to correct these deficiencies.
In each and every case, PP advised the girls to lie about their age and perhaps NOT have their adult impregnators show up at the "clinic."
I heard a recording where a girl called up a bunch of PPs. Every single one said they would cover up the statutory rape. The media won’t report it, and law enforcement never gets involved.
I think the girl posed as a 15 year old. I don’t think she was actually 15.
Because she was lying about her age and circumstances to write the article. It’s call an expose, or investigative journalism.
A nurse practitioner knows that isn't true. Ms. Brooks is not fit for medical practice.
She admitted being underage (in one case 14)and admitted that her impregnator was 23. All advised her to change her birth date to make her 16. In one instance the woman at PP told her NOT to have her "boyfriend" appear inside with her, so he wouldn't be asked about his age and get "in trouble".
In each and every state, Planned Parenthood gets your tax dollars to scam the public, to perform abortions on our underage children, to break the law by not reporting those statutory rapes to the police and thereby further violate our children.
PP should be prosecuted for felonious not reporting children being raped, prevented from getting our tax dollars paying for such criminal behavior and closed down forever --- NOT being donated to by candidates nor candidates wives!
Glitterati such as Rudy Guiliani and even Mitt Romney should not even be considered for the high office of the President of the Republican Party. That they are lies directly at the feet of the media, who have no problem at all with abortion, nor child rape and by business concerns who are totally without scruples.
All of us are “collections of cell,” but we have souls and taking a life is murder.
What kind of ridiculous brand name is that?!
"We have to be safe, Sweetie. There's a package of Melons in the bathroom........ Oh, I dunno, cantaloupe, I guess. I'm so tired of watermelon........ Are they big enough?"
Sure we’re collections of cells, but so are armadillos and mosquitos, and for a little while, corpses. It is a lie nonetheless — a deception by a nurse who certainly knows better.
Just a minute. There was no pregnancy. There was no rape. There was deceit.
This should be changed to: Planned Parenthood was willing to cover up what it thought was a rape.
That’s bad enough.
Let’s figure out the scenario. If PP had started to report the false rape,
Would the deceiver then have told the PP person not to report the false rape because it was a made-up story?
This stinks. Let’s leave deceit to the left. They are very good at it.
You’re right. However, we have human SOULS and that makes things very different. The left does not, as a rule, believe in God, so it is very easy for them to declare that some people do not have souls.
I don't wanna know how they did it. TMI alarm just rang off the wall.
Yes! I was pondering the same point when you first brought this up. We do have a soul, and it is the soul that turns that "clump of cells" into something infinitely precious. True for the unborn, not likely for armadillos, and absolutely impossible for mosquitos :-)
Nurse practitioner (one rank below MD, btw) Brooks may not acknowledge our souls, but she certainly knows that the "clump" is a genetically unique baby and she has every reason to believe it is a normal, healthy baby. The only reasons given for killing it were 1) it's inconvenient, and 2) protecting the rapist.
You do too. Admit it.
Brooks advised Rose to get an abortion as she cited the lack of support for pregnancy on campus and the discomforts of pregnancy.
“Most of the students I talk to terminate their pregnancies,” said Brooks.
“You have a collection of cells.” Brooks told Rose. She continued, “(Look) forward to the physical difficulties of pregnancy. The embarrassment of your classmates, both this quarter and next quarter living in the dorm, being pregnant in the dorm, that would be a little different.”
“UCLA doesn’t support people who are pregnant and make things easier for them necessarily,” the nurse practitioner said, The Advocate reported. While UCLA has two medical providers of abortion on campus ready to assist, Health Services has no support for a woman who wants to continue her pregnancy, The Advocate reported.
“I agree with abortion,” says UCLA Health Center nurse practitioner Brooks, “. And I believe that a woman should have a choice.”
“What about other options? That’s the definition of choice,” said Rose, who reported the story.
ping - life v planned parenthood.
So when a cop or TV show poses as a 14 year old on the Internet to catch child molesters do you believe that no crime has happened after all there was no child.
The problem I see with it is that a 15-yo college freshman living on campus, even as a cover story, is not particularly believable.
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