From the Florida Bar Association:
Except, of course, that physical injuries are quite different from pregnancy. In the case of pregnancy, all the woman must do is remain silent about the father, and no reporting requirements exist. The same is not true in the case of injuries that the hospital suspects are caused by domestic violence. So the two reporting requirements are fundamentally different, and your link proves nothing about the current situation. Furthermore, it's essentially an opinion piece. There is no actual data presented.
So, report the crime and hope the investigators are too ****** to learn the source of the abuse? WOnderful system.
No, TW. I would have thought you'd be smart enough to figure this out, but if the father is the same age, then there is no felony, and there is no requirement to report. That's why in the 2008 videos, they make a point of not only telling the PP staff the girl's age was 13, but also the father's age was 31. Without that info, there is no reporting requirement. And the PP staff in at least one case knew this, because she
says that she didn't hear the age and doesn't want to know the age. She's breaking the law, and trying to cover her ass about it.
Yes, it was a failure of the system that abuse was allowed to go on for so long. The people to blame, however, are not the medical professionals that focused on the girls' health.
They DIDN'T focus on her health. They focused on giving her an abortion. Whatever overlap there might be, those two things sure as hell aren't the same. If they
had focused on her health, she might still be alive. So don't give me this **** about abortion being equal to caring for someone. Even when it's the right choice, it sure as hell isn't the same thing.
Are you talking about the earlier attempts by Rose to smear the organization? This BS:
http://mediamatters.org/research/201102010048
No, I'm
not talking about that case. While those conversations were distasteful, none of them involved breaking the law. I'm talking about the 2008 Mona Lisa Project tapes. Your link doesn't address the contents of those tapes in any way. In fact, one could read that page and not even know such tapes were even made - is that what happened with you? Perhaps you should ponder why mention of the 2008 video tapes is absent.
All your link does is engage in an ad hominem attack against Rose.
Children don't have the ability to seek care on their own.
Except at Planned Parenthood, evidently.
First of all, the Planned Parenthood workers in this example DID report the crimes. People are mad that they didn't do it in front of the fake pimp, or something.
I
know they reported it
this time. I said that in my very first post. And they did so because they learned from being burned by their failures in 2008.
Second, You're just being glib about an issue that tortures endless health care workers every day of their life. This is not an easy decision.
Bull. It's a VERY easy decision: you
follow the law. End of story.
The leading cause of death for pregnant women is murder. Forcing young women to notify their parents (often the source of the abuse) can be and often is more damaging.
We're not talking about parental notification. We're talking about notifying the cops. Parental notification can be avoided when necessary with a judicial bypass.
Forced reporting eliminates people's ability to analyze the situation and determine if they're hurting or helping.
You seem to be under the impression that in the absence of such a requirement, they actually go through a thorough analysis to determine this. But they
don't. They
didn't. Nor should they have to.
It's also a terrible idea to put this burden on doctors and health care workers.
Indeed: give them an unambiguous rule they can follow, and let someone else who can actually spend time and effort making an informed judgment call handle the situation. In other words, the cops.
I'm all for increasing the budget to put more social workers in hospitals and PP clinics. People who can look into the situation professionally and determine the right course of action.
You know whose job that is?
The cops. That's their
job. It is not the job of the health care providers. Hell, you even said that you don't want them to be dealing with stuff that isn't their job. Then you turn around and try to saddle them with the job anyways.
