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By John Bambenek
Posted: 2/15/06 Section: Opinions
While these instances of the willingness to cover up child sexual assault are from other states, the willingness to break the law and sacrifice the innocence of young women on the altar of abortion has come to Champaign too. Nov. 5, 2005, Planned Parenthood sponsored a marginally legal emergency contraceptive giveaway. McKinley staff physician Kathryn Waldyke prescribed EC to a minor too young to consent to sex and encouraged that minor to share the prescription with her friends. There's another catch, the prescription was solicited not by the minor but by the older sister. There's yet another catch, the minor in question does not exist.
This doctor, in apparent contravention of several regulations and arguably some laws, prescribed a drug that has use for people who are sexually active to a minor who she never had contact with who was also too young to legally consent to sex. Further, she advocated sharing the medicine, which is also apparently against the law. It isn't a problem that minors are being abused and raped. It isn't a problem that the law makes doctors mandatory reporters of child abuse. The problem is that 11-year-olds aren't having enough abortions.
The irony of women's groups such as the Feminist Majority protesting the sexual abuse of women is no small thing, when they cruelly make jokes about women who defend themselves by auctioning off water guns in protest. Rape, all rape, is an extreme violation that should be opposed by all means possible, not made into a partisan punch line from those who apparently don't have the best interests of others at heart. It is heartless indeed to insist that women be left defenseless against rapists, no matter what age.
So while the media is demanding investigations and prosecutions for the Catholic Church situation, ask yourself why isn't the attorney general of Illinois looking into these cases of child rape. Oh yeah, it's because she's too busy shaking down crisis pregnancy centers for blaspheming the sacrament of abortion.
John Bambenek is a graduate student and academic professional at the University. His column appears on Wednesdays. He can be reached at opinions@dailyillini.com.
This doctor, in apparent contravention of several regulations and arguably some laws, prescribed a drug that has use for people who are sexually active to a minor who she never had contact with who was also too young to legally consent to sex. Further, she advocated sharing the medicine, which is also apparently against the law. It isn't a problem that minors are being abused and raped. It isn't a problem that the law makes doctors mandatory reporters of child abuse. The problem is that 11-year-olds aren't having enough abortions.
The irony of women's groups such as the Feminist Majority protesting the sexual abuse of women is no small thing, when they cruelly make jokes about women who defend themselves by auctioning off water guns in protest. Rape, all rape, is an extreme violation that should be opposed by all means possible, not made into a partisan punch line from those who apparently don't have the best interests of others at heart. It is heartless indeed to insist that women be left defenseless against rapists, no matter what age.
So while the media is demanding investigations and prosecutions for the Catholic Church situation, ask yourself why isn't the attorney general of Illinois looking into these cases of child rape. Oh yeah, it's because she's too busy shaking down crisis pregnancy centers for blaspheming the sacrament of abortion.
John Bambenek is a graduate student and academic professional at the University. His column appears on Wednesdays. He can be reached at opinions@dailyillini.com.
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