Now the organization is adding something new to their repertoire: a reputation for the shameless practice of covering up cases of statutory rape and child sexual abuse.

Just last month, several new cases came to light. Undercover UCLA journalism student Lila Rose posed as a pregnant minor and entered a Planned Parenthood clinic in Santa Monica, California with her “23-year-old boyfriend.” She recorded the entire exchange with a clinic staff member who told Lila that she could lie about her birth year to avoid reporting a case of statutory rape.

In Ohio, attorney Brian Hurley is representing two teens in separate lawsuits against a Planned Parenthood clinic in suburban Cincinnati. One teen was taken in for an abortion by her soccer coach, the alleged abuser; the other teen says she was a victim of incest, and that Planned Parenthood could have prevented another 18 months of sexual abuse if they had reported her father’s actions to police.

Failure to report possible cases of statutory rape allows Planned Parenthood clinics to make more money through sales of abortions and birth control, and to avoid parental notification and consent laws, even at the cost of the innocence and safety of children at the mercy of sexual predators. It’s no wonder that Planned Parenthood opposes parental involvement laws, as well as laws which release anonymous records of underage abortions.

So, what’s really going on here? When you cut through all the doublespeak of their mission to “help women,” the actions of Planned Parenthood speak for themselves. The organization seems willing to make a profit at any cost, even from the desperation and emotional turmoil of minors facing crisis pregnancies.

It is way past time to heighten awareness of the nasty truth about Planned Parenthood, to increase attention to their deplorable “business” practices, and to promote investigations into their clinics. California and other states are leading the way in taking a fresh look at how statutory rape and child abuse laws might be improved and more readily enforced. In many states, statutory rape is not even defined as “child abuse,” so failure to report such cases carries lighter penalties.

Let us work and pray for increased efforts in bringing more sexual predators to justice, especially those who prey on children. Let us also pray that abortion profiteers face heftier consequences for protecting predators, and that our nation would refuse to tolerate the high cost of inflicting such pain and harm to children, both born and unborn.