Comments on: Planned Parenthood Suspends Two Staffers While Prosecutors Explore Possible Criminal Charges in Video Controversy

By: Smári Roach Gunnarsson

Smári Roach Gunnarsson — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:36:28 +0000

I´m with patty as well. They have to make sure that kids have as little as possible to fear when going to theese clinics and can count on confidentiality so that they will go there rather then doing something dangerous or having a child while still children themselfes.
as inportant as it is to stop pedophiles, the first priority should be to help the children.

By: Sally

Sally — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:38:46 +0000

I’m with you on this one Patty

By: Patty C

Patty C — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:25:29 +0000

Entrapment is a defense not a crime.

Planned Parenthood, in addition to providing safe confidential family planning services, is also an information and referral resource.

Establishing trust and maintaining an open dialogue with a teenager sometimes takes ‘finesse’. No one can judge this nurse’s experience and/or communication style based on one encounter or how a similar scenario would have turned out since this was a set-up.

Personally, I would have doubted the 31 year-old lover scenario.

Truly pregnant scared ‘consenting’ thirteen year-olds who feel trapped and out of options may decide to take matters away from the ‘professionals’ entirely and into their own hands, possibly discarding the infant, rendered infertile from a botched abortion,
or worse.

Rose sounds like a menace with her own agenda.

Injunction, anyone?

By: Jill

Jill — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:18:53 +0000

Rose does not strike me as sincere about wanting to stop child sexual abuse. If she was, she should be, at minimum, taping interactions at all centers that counsel young people on pregnancy, including those who tell young women abortion is evil (and many of these exist) and refuse any refereals to it. (My friend went to one of these and was told she was a sinner in the eyes of God for even thinking about an abortion.) Closing Planned Parenthood is obviously not going to help end child sexual abuse, in fact, it would likely escalate it. So when I see Rose going to every type of clinic, including avowedly anti abortion ones, I will be closer to believing that is her motive.

That being said, Planned Parenthood is right to take this very seriously and to do a complete investigation. Rose should release the whole tape for examination and the investigation should go forward.

By: Free from Anxiety

Free from Anxiety — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:55:09 +0000

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