You’ve probably seen it on the web today. Secretly filmed footage of a New Jersey Planned Parenthood manager, repeating recent history by explaining (to a man and woman claiming to be a pimp and a prostitute) ways to get STD testing, contraception and abortions for girls as young as fourteen. According to the description given, these fictional girls are obviously sex slaves illegally smuggled into the U.S. from other countries. The manager seems to have no qualms about telling them she doesn’t want to know various things, and giving advice on how to fool the physician’s assistant on site. “We all hate her.”
I won’t disagree with most of the conclusions drawn by various commentators. Certainly this is further evidence that Planned Parenthood, which should never have gotten government funding in the first place, ought to be cut off.
But I think I detect a deeper problem.
I don’t think Planned Parenthood’s organizational management is actively supportive of child sexual slavery. Whether this manager’s attitude is typical, I have no way of knowing.
But I think her behavior ought to be no surprise, given the nature of the enterprise.
Why would a modern, educated woman—certainly a feminist, since that’s part of Planned Parenthood’s brief—collude so easily in the degradation of little girls?
My guess is that she came to this gradually. It’s the result of a desensitization process. One every one of us experiences, to some extent or another, in our time.
The first time she saw the results of an actual abortion (I would imagine) she was shocked. Probably had a few bad nights.
But she told herself, “I mustn’t judge. It’s not for me to judge.”
The first time she encountered a fourteen year-old girl impregnated by her fifteen-year-old boyfriend, she probably frowned. Then she told herself, “It’s not for me to judge.”
When a fourteen-year-old girl who’d been impregnated by her 26-year-old boyfriend came in, she was tempted to call the police.
But hey, how could she judge in this situation, either? She didn’t know these people. And anyway, somebody might ask embarrassing questions about the last fourteen-year-old girl she’d treated off the record.
And so it goes. At each stage, past compromises lead to new compromises.
Eventually, she can see no moral lines at all. “There ain’t no right, there ain’t no wrong. There’s just things people do. It’s not for me to judge.”
In our age, the greatest sin is judging sexual behavior. You can judge the wearing of fur, and smoking, and using “offensive” words, but hands off sex. Any kind of sex. The kinkier, the more sacrosanct.
This is the disease of our age, and it will kill us if we don’t address it and change our thinking.
That’s kinda how I feel about guns. After years of shooting animals just for fun(not out of need) and watching all that Hollywood and the nightly news have to offer, people become desensitized.
But that is only my personal opinion, and you may be correct in your post.
That’s really your response? You see a story about a government funded enterprise that winks at child prostitution, and your first response is, “Boy, guns are bad!”?
Lyle, do you have any facts to back what you said? For example, is the murder rate by hunters higher than in equivalent demographics who don’t hunt?
There’s nothing wrong with what Planned Parenthood is doing here. It’s perfectly acceptable for them to cater these types of activities.The people at fault here are the “pimp” and the “hooker”. They’re attempting to hurt an organization that helps thousands of women a year. The media will expose them for the haters and racists they truly are.
Atlanta Roofing: Clearly you haven’t watched the video. When I was preparing to write about this, I assumed the PP manager was going along reluctantly, letting her concern for the children’s health cloud her judgment. But that’s not what we see. We see a woman happily helping people she thinks are procurers for child sex slaves, helping them get around the legal checks, and telling them, “We’re partners in crime.” If you see nothing wrong in that, well, I have to say you seem to be living proof of my premise.
and now we all see how America has become the great nation it is………. thank you Lyle…thank you Atlanta roofing.
I think Atlanta is joking. Lyle, I don’t get your point.
But about the post, I think your last point is the best, that judging sexual behavior is what puritans did and no one wants to be puritan. Whether she walked through steps of compromise, I’m not sure. It’s possible many of those steps were taken ahead of time by being indoctrinated in modern sexuality. Some believe sex is liberating and should be free of all responsibility. The prostitute may be the ideal woman, completely free of society’s morality. Some feminists have taught that lesbianism is the ideal, so this can’t be far from it. (The trafficking part must be ignored. I can’t see how a thinking person would rationalize that.)
In our age, the greatest sin is judging sexual behavior. You can judge the wearing of fur, and smoking, and using “offensive” words, but hands off sex. Any kind of sex. The kinkier, the more sacrosanct.
Or, as Tom Kratman calls it, “The Church of the Holy Orgasm”.
Arguably, appearing to play along with the pimp and hooker is the right thing to do. However, as soon as they leave the premises, you should discuss it with your friendly local police force. They know more about catching criminals than you do.
If it does turn out to be a sting operation, you’ll be able to put on your web site a copy of the police report, showing you did the right thing.
That’s good, Ori. I suppose another way would be to ask to be excused to get paperwork or ask your boss for a minutes, call the cops, and then return to play nice until they arrive. What you described is probably a safer approach though, if the guests are dangerous.
A second film has been posted today. This manager appears less sleazy, but shows no sign of having a problem with child prostitution. She could, in theory, be leading them on, of course.
1. who’s is talking serious here?
2. “…judging sexual behavior is what Puritans
did and no one wants to be Puritan.”
3. Phil, educate me here, please…are you serious?
4. There is a great, out of print book, “Worldly
Saints: The Puritans the Way They Really
Were.” This book has a pretty good reputation
from what I’ve read about it. It clearly
shows us that the Puritans have a really
bad rap reputaion and have been sterio-typed.
They did of course have beliefs re: sex.
They believed sex before marriage was not
Biblical. They believed sex inside marriage
should be great, fun and full of adventure.
Biblical teaching, it is. They believed sex
with someone not your spouse was not
Biblical.
God certainly gives us standards to live by
when He tells us homosexuality is an
abomination and those who practice it will
be damned. I believe the same is due
pedophiles, and animal defilers. He is
equally clear when he forbids adultry and
fornication.
As I’ve said, Puritans have been given a bad
rap my the media and hollywood. We should
check them out more.
When I referred to the Puritans, I was attempting to summarize or state the feminist’s point of view. The way Lars presents it, she makes a series of compromises. I believe some of those compromising steps could have been long before by drinking the feminist kool-aid. She may have been taught and among friends whom all believed that sex is great fun with the right people and should have no responsibility attached to it at all. Whose to say age appropriateness means anything, she would believe. All of it’s good.
Is that clearer?
Ah! PHEW!! Thanks for that, Phil. Much clearer…
and I feel soooooooo much better…. :?)
PS that book really is pretty good though…
i mean to say ossam book to feeling quite better THANX allot