The War on Girls: Planned Parenthood Settles Child Abuse Case Out of Court

Why would anyone send a 16-year-old girl who has asked for help back to her rapist? Planned Parenthood claims that it is concerned about “women’s health.” It attacks anyone who opposes it in any way as being “against women’s health” and “against women” generally. Yet they return a 16-year-old girl to her rapist without even contacting the authorities.

 This is not the first such case that Planned Parenthood has been forced to settle. Another lawsuit about Planned Parenthood failing to report sexual abuse of a minor was settled in the same court last year.

The LifeNews article does not address the question of whether or not law enforcement has filed criminal charges against the Planned Parenthood employees who failed to report this rape and sexual abuse of a minor child.

The article reads in part:

A Planned Parenthood abortion business in Ohio has been forced to settle a lawsuit from a teenager on whom it did an abortion and failed to report suspected child rape to authorities.

The child abuse victim has settled with Planned Parenthood, after a lawsuit included multiple charges such as failure to report incestuous statutory rape and sexual abuse of a minor by her father.

The case, Denise Fairbanks v. Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region et al., was filed by Denise Fairbanks in the Hamilton County Ohio Court of Common Pleas on May 7, 2007 and it named Planned Parenthood, Southwest Ohio Region, in failing to report the abuse committed by her father.

The Life Legal Defense Foundation, a pro-life legal group, supported Denise, who had been sexually abused by her father from the time she was 13. When she became pregnant at age 16, her father took her to Planned Parenthood for an abortion. Although she informed the abortion clinic staff that she was being forced to have sex, they chose not to comply with mandatory reporting procedures

The Planned Parenthood staff did not inform local law enforcement, nor did they make any further inquiries into Fairbanks’ paternal abuse. After the abortion, Fairbanks was returned to the same abusive situation, where she remained for another year-and-a-half. More than a year later, her father was apprehended through a report filed by Denise’s basketball coach, and sent to jail.

“This is just one of multiple cases that have demonstrated Planned Parenthood’s willingness to cover for sex offenders,” said Dana Cody, Executive Director of the Life Legal Defense Foundation. (Read more here.)