“At least one of my [six] a******ns was from Planned Parenthood because they didn’t ask any questions.”

Those are the words of a sex trafficking survivor who took part in the study, “The Health Consequences of Sex Trafficking and Their Implications for Identifying Victims in Healthcare Facilities,” which found that 55% of sex trafficking victims in the study had obtained a******ns. Thirty percent had undergone more than one a******n.

Americans have recently become much more aware of the prevalence of child sex trafficking amid the unraveling of the secrets of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. But sex trafficking has been a profitable industry for decades, having a symbiotic relationship with the porn and a******n industries.

Sex trafficking, porn, and a******n

These three unethical and horrific industries are deeply entangled, each thriving off of the others. DKT International, which sells the a******n pill and owns the worldwide rights to sell manual vacuum aspiration kits, fought against a 2003 law requiring organizations funded by the U.S. to take an official position against sex trafficking. To do so could have hurt DKT’s business.

DKT International was founded by Philip Harvey, who has made millions of dollars selling pornographic films and sex toys through his company, Adam & Eve. Those films, according to a report by National Review, likely contain footage of sex trafficking victims forced to participate in pornography. DKT International receives 25% of the profits from Adam & Eve ($75 million in sales in 2019) and then in turn funds the overseas birth control and a******n industry. Harvey sits on the board of the UK-based Marie Stopes International, one of the largest a******n chains in the world.

Meanwhile, sex trafficking victims are frequently forced to undergo multiple a******ns to be able to continue ‘working.’ A******nists are, therefore, making money off of sex trafficking.

“The prevalence of forced a******ns is an especially disturbing trend in sex trafficking,” wrote study authors Laura J. Lederer and Christopher A. Wetzel. “One victim noted that ‘in most of [my six a******ns,] I was under serious pressure from my pimps to abort the babies.’ Another survivor, whose abuse at the hands of her traffickers was particularly brutal, reported 17 a******ns and indicated that at least some of them were forced on her.”

Despite clear signs of abuse, a******n businesses frequently fail to report these instances to authorities, though they are mandated to do so. Instead, they collect money for a******ns and return victims to their traffickers and abusers.

“The a******n industry is profiting tremendously [from sex trafficking] …financially,” explained Nita Belles, regional director for Oregonians Against Trafficking Humans.

It’s a cruel, inhumane, brutal circle in which Planned Parenthood can often be found at the center.

Planned Parenthood’s role in sex trafficking

“Survivors [of human trafficking] also had significant contact with clinical treatment facilities, most commonly Planned Parenthood clinics, which more than a quarter of survivors (29.6%) visited,” reported Lederer, former senior advisor for trafficking in person for the U.S. Department of State. “… Since pimps and traffickers generally exercise nearly complete control of their victims, these points of contact with healthcare represent rare opportunities for victim identification and intervention.”

One victim who took part in the study explained that no one at any clinic she ever visited, including Planned Parenthood, ever asked her questions about her situation. “No one ever asked me anything anytime I ever went to a clinic. … I was on birth control during the 10 years I was on the streets – mostly Depo-Provera shots [which increase women’s risk of contracting HIV by 40%] which I got at the Planned Parenthood and other neighborhood clinics. I also got the morning-after pill from them. I was young and so I had to have a waiver signed in order to get these.”

That waiver, it turns out, could be signed by the victims’ abusers — as was revealed during Live Action’s Aiding Abusers investigation into Planned Parenthood’s willingness aid abusers and traffickers, and cover up sexual abuse.

In 2011, Live Action investigators posed as a pimp and one of his prostitutes seeking a place that would handle STI treatments for his sex trafficking victims — some as young as 14. Planned Parenthood employees at seven facilities across the nation actually worked to help the “sex traffickers” by telling them how to get victims tested, the best way to skirt the laws to get a******ns for them, and how to lie on paperwork about the ages of the girls so Planned Parenthood could avoid mandated reporting laws. One Planned Parenthood staffer even encouraged the “pimp” to sign the paperwork as the girls’ guardian.

Planned Parenthood manager Amy Woodruff worked at the facility in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and was videotaped coaching the “sex traffickers” on where to get a******ns for underage girls:

WOODRUFF: You never got this from me, just to make all of our lives easier.

PIMP: Ok.

WOODRUFF: If they’re 14 and under…

PIMP: Yeah, yeah.

WOODRUFF: [circles clinic paper] … just send ‘em right there if they need an a******n. OK? [Laughter].

WOODRUFF: … Here’s the thing too. If they’re minors, just tell them to put down that they’re students.

PIMP: Students?

WOODRUFF: Yeah, just kind of play along that they’re students. We want to make it look as legit as possible…

While these “sex traffickers” were actually undercover investigators, their experience supports what trafficking victims are saying. One trafficking victim said in an interview that she was “trusted” by her pimp and was given the task of scheduling a******ns for the other girls. “The pimps and the traffickers would get f**e I.D.’s for the girls and we would take them to have a******ns,” she explained.

READ: New documentary shines light on connection between sex trafficking and a******n

She added that a******n businesses like Planned Parenthood would commit the a******ns without question. “[H]onestly they had to know that these were teenagers,” she said, “they were not adult women.”

After Live Action’s Aiding Abusers investigation was released, Planned Parenthood quickly fired the staffers caught aiding the “sex traffickers” and even announced they would be retraining their staff to spot abuse. This was false.

According to former Planned Parenthood manager Ramona Trevino, who was present for one of these retraining sessions, she and her fellow staffers were taught how to spot undercover investigators and determine whether or not they were being recorded — not how to identify trafficking victims.

As more information comes to light about sex trafficking in the U.S., those who have covered it up for decades, like Planned Parenthood, must be held responsible for aiding the abuse of thousands of children and women.

https://www.liveaction.org/news/link-sex-trafficking-a******n-planned-parenthood/

What did we do before the Supreme Court decided it was their business to legislate from the bench and allow the murder of only certain people in this country? There were still a******ns, of course, but they were rare and dangerous, as they should be-a child's life is at stake, after all. Back then, there was some semblance of standards of behavior as well, and to be pregnant and single was not at all something to be proud of-my sister was pregnant out of wedlock, and she was not sent away to have the baby-but a******n was never ever considered as an option. The pregnancy caused much financial hardship for her and the father, but they weathered it-they got married, and with help from my parents and others, they went on to make a family, support themselves have 5 children and they now have grandchildren and great grandchildren.

There were many stories like that, but it was not a badge of honor to have babies and let the government support them. Society at that time termed as "deadbeat", not a nice term, dads who did not support their children-they did not have to marry the mother, but they did have a responsibility to support their progeny. But back then, we knew right from wrong and there were consequences. Now there are none, life is of no value-no matter if it is Black, Brown, White, Yellow or Green-we are nothing but a bunch of cells or products of conception until we are able to fend for ourselves. Murder was dealt with, l**ting was treated as the d********g crime it is, and arson was reprehensible-sexual assault may well have ended with the girl's father taking the law into his own hands, and most would not have been sad about that.

But now some little moth or butterfly is protected while people are doing without, PETA screams about cruelty to animals, but cares nothing about people, unless they can be bamboozled into donating mucho dinero to the cause, enriching the board members rather than making things better for the animals. Yet, supposedly we are animals, as well. An inconvenient t***h, I guess.

Today, since there are no standards of conduct, and right is viewed as wrong, evil is good, and everyone does what they deem to be OK, as long as it profits them in some way, I suppose those children will just have to be placed in orphanages and taken care of as a group rather than as individuals, but at least they will be alive. Aborted babies do not grow up to v**e either.

What did we do before the Supreme Court decided it was their business to legislate from the bench and allow the murder of only certain people in this country? There were still a******ns, of course, but they were rare and dangerous, as they should be-a child's life is at stake, after all. Back then, there was some semblance of standards of behavior as well, and to be pregnant and single was not at all something to be proud of-my sister was pregnant out of wedlock, and she was not sent away to have the baby-but a******n was never ever considered as an option. The pregnancy caused much financial hardship for her and the father, but they weathered it-they got married, and with help from my parents and others, they went on to make a family, support themselves have 5 children and they now have grandchildren and great grandchildren.

There were many stories like that, but it was not a badge of honor to have babies and let the government support them. Society at that time termed as "deadbeat", not a nice term, dads who did not support their children-they did not have to marry the mother, but they did have a responsibility to support their progeny. But back then, we knew right from wrong and there were consequences. Now there are none, life is of no value-no matter if it is Black, Brown, White, Yellow or Green-we are nothing but a bunch of cells or products of conception until we are able to fend for ourselves. Murder was dealt with, l**ting was treated as the d********g crime it is, and arson was reprehensible-sexual assault may well have ended with the girl's father taking the law into his own hands, and most would not have been sad about that.

But now some little moth or butterfly is protected while people are doing without, PETA screams about cruelty to animals, but cares nothing about people, unless they can be bamboozled into donating mucho dinero to the cause, enriching the board members rather than making things better for the animals. Yet, supposedly we are animals, as well. An inconvenient t***h, I guess.

Today, since there are no standards of conduct, and right is viewed as wrong, evil is good, and everyone does what they deem to be OK, as long as it profits them in some way, I suppose those children will just have to be placed in orphanages and taken care of as a group rather than as individuals, but at least they will be alive. Aborted babies do not grow up to v**e either.

What did we do before the Supreme Court decided it was their business to legislate from the bench and allow the murder of only certain people in this country? There were still a******ns, of course, but they were rare and dangerous, as they should be-a child's life is at stake, after all. Back then, there was some semblance of standards of behavior as well, and to be pregnant and single was not at all something to be proud of-my sister was pregnant out of wedlock, and she was not sent away to have the baby-but a******n was never ever considered as an option. The pregnancy caused much financial hardship for her and the father, but they weathered it-they got married, and with help from my parents and others, they went on to make a family, support themselves have 5 children and they now have grandchildren and great grandchildren.

There were many stories like that, but it was not a badge of honor to have babies and let the government support them. Society at that time termed as "deadbeat", not a nice term, dads who did not support their children-they did not have to marry the mother, but they did have a responsibility to support their progeny. But back then, we knew right from wrong and there were consequences. Now there are none, life is of no value-no matter if it is Black, Brown, White, Yellow or Green-we are nothing but a bunch of cells or products of conception until we are able to fend for ourselves. Murder was dealt with, l**ting was treated as the d********g crime it is, and arson was reprehensible-sexual assault may well have ended with the girl's father taking the law into his own hands, and most would not have been sad about that.

But now some little moth or butterfly is protected while people are doing without, PETA screams about cruelty to animals, but cares nothing about people, unless they can be bamboozled into donating mucho dinero to the cause, enriching the board members rather than making things better for the animals. Yet, supposedly we are animals, as well. An inconvenient t***h, I guess.

Today, since there are no standards of conduct, and right is viewed as wrong, evil is good, and everyone does what they deem to be OK, as long as it profits them in some way, I suppose those children will just have to be placed in orphanages and taken care of as a group rather than as individuals, but at least they will be alive. Aborted babies do not grow up to v**e either.

What did we do before the Supreme Court decided it was their business to legislate from the bench and allow the murder of only certain people in this country? There were still a******ns, of course, but they were rare and dangerous, as they should be-a child's life is at stake, after all. Back then, there was some semblance of standards of behavior as well, and to be pregnant and single was not at all something to be proud of-my sister was pregnant out of wedlock, and she was not sent away to have the baby-but a******n was never ever considered as an option. The pregnancy caused much financial hardship for her and the father, but they weathered it-they got married, and with help from my parents and others, they went on to make a family, support themselves have 5 children and they now have grandchildren and great grandchildren.

There were many stories like that, but it was not a badge of honor to have babies and let the government support them. Society at that time termed as "deadbeat", not a nice term, dads who did not support their children-they did not have to marry the mother, but they did have a responsibility to support their progeny. But back then, we knew right from wrong and there were consequences. Now there are none, life is of no value-no matter if it is Black, Brown, White, Yellow or Green-we are nothing but a bunch of cells or products of conception until we are able to fend for ourselves. Murder was dealt with, l**ting was treated as the d********g crime it is, and arson was reprehensible-sexual assault may well have ended with the girl's father taking the law into his own hands, and most would not have been sad about that.

But now some little moth or butterfly is protected while people are doing without, PETA screams about cruelty to animals, but cares nothing about people, unless they can be bamboozled into donating mucho dinero to the cause, enriching the board members rather than making things better for the animals. Yet, supposedly we are animals, as well. An inconvenient t***h, I guess.

Today, since there are no standards of conduct, and right is viewed as wrong, evil is good, and everyone does what they deem to be OK, as long as it profits them in some way, I suppose those children will just have to be placed in orphanages and taken care of as a group rather than as individuals, but at least they will be alive. Aborted babies do not grow up to v**e either.