LAKE COUNTY, Indiana, August 20, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Many laws are made to protect young children and minors. Legally, when an underage girl lies about her age to an adult male and the two have sex, it's statutory rape. Likewise, Indiana law requires minor girls to obtain a parent's or legal guardian's written consent before having an abortion.
However, the Indiana Court of Appeals has just ruled that Planned Parenthood is not liable for performing an abortion on a minor without parental consent.
The 17-year-old girl in Lake County showed a fake ID to the Planned Parenthood abortion business in Merrillville and procured an abortion. Later regretting her decision, and realizing that it was illegal for the organization to perform an abortion on a minor without parental consent, she and her mother sued Planned Parenthood in 2011.
A Lake County judge ruled in April that Planned Parenthood does not have to make certain that an abortion customer is not underage.
The mother-daughter team appealed, and the state Court of Appeals has affirmed the lower judge's ruling, in favor of Planned Parenthood.
Both courts said Planned Parenthood is immune from civil liability in the case, because the minor girl presented a stolen ID on her two visits to the abortion business.
The case raised concerns, since Planned Parenthood has a proven history of “looking the other way” in cases of statutory rape. Live Action released several undercover videos proving that many Planned Parenthood businesses, including those in Indiana, knowingly welcome minor abortion clients who have been raped by men much older.
In some cases, Planned Parenthood representatives have entered into an intentional conspiracy to hide statutory rape. One Bloomington, Indiana Planned Parenthood was forced to suspend an employee after a video showed the staffer assuring what she thought was a 13-year-old girl, who said she had sex with a 31-year-old man, that she would not report the statutory rape.
A UCLA student posed as the 13-year-old girl and caught the staffer on tape admitting that her legal duty was to report the abuse, but then telling the girl that she would not obey the law.
In another abortion business in Indianapolis, two Planned Parenthood employees stated that they “don't care” about the statutory rape impregnating a 13-year-old by a 31-year-old man. On videotape, they counsel the young girl simply to lie about the age of her rapist.
In 2005, Planned Parenthood of Indiana refused to comply with state attorney general Steve Carter's demand to turn over records of 73 abortion customers under the age of 14 as part of a state investigation into fraud.