Planned Parenthood given probation for breaking law

A Planned Parenthood branch in Birmingham, Ala., has been put on probation by the state health department for breaking the state's abortion consent law and refusing to notify authorities of suspected child abuse cases.

The violations were discovered after officials investigated a videotape in which an employee admitted the manager sometimes would "bend the rules."

The action by the Alabama Department of Health was based on a 38-page report that found that the business's own records revealed it provided an abortion to a 15-year-old although the "mother" giving consent did not have the same last name or address and provided an expired driver's license as ID.

Records for other patients, mostly ages 13 and 14, also revealed the business failed to document properly the identification of those giving parental permission under the state law for the abortions.

In fact, in all nine cases examined by the state involving minor patients, Planned Parenthood "failed to obtain parental consent … in a manner that complies with state legal requirements."

Worse yet was the conclusion that "neither the registered nurse, the medical doctor, nor any other center staff reported the suspected abuse or neglect [of a 13 year-old child] to the authorities as required by law."

The investigation was launched after a video was submitted to authorities by the student-led nonprofit Live Action. Its undercover video of the Birmingham abortion clinic revealed a staffer suggesting the law be ignored.

As WND reported, the recording revealed a counselor at Planned Parenthood telling a volunteer, who describes herself as a 14-year-old statutory rape victim, the clinic "does sometimes bend the rules a little bit."

Loony Left and Culture War [Headline Roundup]

Michelle Obama announces ‘obesity’ a threat to national security...
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/61157

So much Snowmageddon looniness, it has its own headline roundup:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2449802/posts?page=74#74

CNN commentator wants Obama to go ‘gangsta’...
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/02/09/martin.obama.republicans/index.html

Man Sues California Mall After Guard Arrests Him for Having Conversation About God
http://www.infowars.com/man-sues-california-mall-after-guard-arrests-him-for-having-conversation-about-god

Sex Valentines issued by Planned Parenthood
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=124840
Cards feature condoms, genitalia and ‘I love pro-choice doctors’
[I’d rather read Worldnetdaily than those who have trouble spelling ‘net’.]

Planned Parenthood given probation for breaking law
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2449773/posts
“ ... breaking the state’s abortion consent law and refusing to notify authorities of suspected child abuse cases ...”
[World-nEt-daily.]

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Sicko ‘Safe Schools’ Czar

Obama czar’s ‘homo-genda’ proposed for U.S. schools
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2449021/posts
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=124704
“A homosexual congressman from Colorado has proposed a law critics say would give controversial federal school safety czar Kevin Jennings – a longtime homosexual-rights advocate – almost unlimited authority to mandate indoctrination in public schools at taxpayer expense.”
[Another good article by Worldnetdaily — spelled ‘net’.]

OBAMA APPOINTEE KEVIN JENNINGS: FISTING AND “[F–k] ‘em” to the ...
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/06/obama-appointee-kevin-jennings-fisting-and-fk-em-to-the-religious-right.html

Huffington Post is really thrilled to vindicate Kevin Jennings:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/06/fox-news-correction-false_n_311734.html
“The specific claim involved an accusation that Jennings had covered up “statutory rape,” based on an incident when Jennings was a teacher, when a “teenager confided in him about having sex with a stranger and Jennings didn’t report it to authorities.” Media Matters ended up proving there was no basis to the claim. Via The Plum Line: On Friday Media Matters produced what it said was the kid’s drivers license, showing that the kid was 16, legal age of consent in Massachuttes, and also produced a Facebook exchange that seemed to show that a Fox News reporter had been informed directly by the kid himself that they’d misrepresented his age.”

[So the kid was sixteen years old, and a teacher was sodomizing him? Oh, that should make us feel better. I would be confused too as a reporter.]

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Biden: I Like Palin But She’s ‘Just So Far Out There’!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2449377/posts

[How about this for ‘out there’?]

Saving Fish Before Firefighters. - Free Online Library
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Saving+Fish+Before+Firefighters-a078738307
“During a recent forest fire, help for trapped firefighters was delayed out .... cut off in the middle of a drought for the supposed benefit of sucker fish. ...”

Bus Tunnel Victim Says She Begged Police For Help Before Beating
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2449338/posts
Infowars Take:
3 Security guards stand by as 15 year old girl beaten
http://www.infowars.com/3-security-guards-stand-by-as-15-year-old-girl-beaten

Look what they’re erasing from U.S. history
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2449156/posts
“ ... omit references to Daniel Boone, Gen. George Patton, Nathan Hale, Columbus Day and Christmas.”
[I’d rather read Worldnetdaily than those who have trouble spelling ‘net’.]

History of England starts at 1700, says university
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=124868
Academics attack decision to scrap research – ‘entrenching the ignorance of the present’

THE EXODUS CONSPIRACY
Film ‘proving Bible true’ getting major expansion
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=124716
A film that could potentially verify the historical accuracy of much of the Bible is getting a major expansion, causing its producers to be extra sensitive to modern political concerns and anxious fans to wait even longer for its release.
[God bless worldnetdaily.]

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