The results were predictable. Clinic staff at the two clinics in Indiana didn't — as required by law in Indiana — report Lila or her accomplice to the police as suspected abuse victims and told her that they didn't care how old her "boyfriend" was, despite Lila insisting he was 31 and afraid of getting in trouble. Indiana law states that anyone having sexual contact with a person under the age of 14 is committing a sexual assault, and requires doctors to break doctor-patient confidentiality laws — even if the sex was consensual — and tell the police.

Planned Parenthood fired both the aide featured in the video Rose shot in Bloomington and the counselor featured in the video shot in Indianapolis, and retrained its staff on complying with Indiana's reporting requirements. Meanwhile, the prosecutor in Marion County (where Indianapolis is) has empaneled a grand jury to investigate whether any laws were broken.

Here's the problem with this case (as I've written about before): the doctor-patient confidentiality clause is there for a reason. That reason is that it is far more important to the physical (and, yes, emotional health) of any real 13-year-old that she have safe, confidential access to health care than that we put an actual creepy 31-year-old in jail for 6 months for having consensual sex with someone who society has (in most people's opinions, rightly) deemed too young for him. It sounds good for a doctor to be forced to report abuse, but statutory rape isn't the same as sexual assault or molestation — which is why there's a whole different category for it. When young women who have chosen to be sexually active see and hear about this video, are they likely to stop having sex until they turn 14? No. They are, however, far less likely to turn to a medical provider for information about birth control, STI testing or abortion services if they know they provider is going to pick up the phone and call the cops. That's the consequence of these forced-reporting laws when it comes to statutory rape (which is, by definition, consensual but for the age of the supposed victim).

Anyway, so, great. Fines will be paid, medical providers who were trying to do what they thought best for their patients will be slapped on the wrist and Lila Rose will be the anti-abortion movement's latest heroine. And somewhere, a 13-year-old will stick a wire hanger up her vagina, or swallow some pills hoping to force a miscarriage, or will leave a newborn in the restroom trash at a school dance rather than have her boyfriend sent to jail by getting health care. Woo. Team America.

Grand Jury To Investigate Planned Parenthood Video Case [USA Today]

Related: Mona Lisa Project [Live Action Films]

Earlier: If It's Illegal For Them To Have Sex, Should They Get Birth Control?
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• If you weren't already aware, voter turnout is really high. That's led to some scattered problems, which will be chronicled after the jump. [Washington Post]
• In the mean time, the fucking Supreme Court heard the fucking case about fucking swearing on fucking TV. They didn't say "fuck" once, so I felt like someone had to. [Washington Post]
• A lot of people in California who really love each other rushed to get married today in case a bunch of small-minded, easily-led voters decide to make it illegal today for them to do so tomorrow. [NY Times]
• Joe Lieberman "fears" for the future of this country if the Democrats gain a filibuster-proof majority today, and has vowed to join with Republicans to filibuster anything they want to show his contempt for his constituents and the Americans who decided they were okay with a Democratic Senate. [Think Progress]

• Actor Tim Robbins was the most prominent victim of the ironically-named Help America Vote Act's mandated purges of voter rolls today. Being rather well-informed, he took his ass to court to force the city of New York to allow him to vote in the regular fashion, rather than provisionally since it would have gotten discarded. Can we just agree HAVA needs to be revisited next year? [NY Times]
• Rudy and Judith Nathan Giuliani apparent had no such difficulties and even got to cut in line. [Village Voice]
• Some people in Detroit waited 4-5 hours to vote. [CNN]
• Ditto in St. Louis. [CNN]
• A bunch of people in New Mexico that requested absentee ballots never got them and were told to show up and cast provisional ballots, as though if one needed to vote absentee that was a possibility. [CNN]
• At one Florida voting site, they had one machine to accommodate all the voters. Yeah, it was in a predominately African-American neighborhood. [Huffington Post]
• There were big problems with broken machines and a lack of paper ballots in Richmond, Virginia today, too. [Huffington Post]
• In Indiana, the GOP violated a judges orders and tried to challenge the voting status of foreclosed-upon voters. [Huffington Post]
• Some voters in Ohio were forced to cast provisional ballots (which might or might not be counted) because poll workers screwed up and thought that the address on the license had to match the address on the registration. It doesn't. [CNN]
• A 92-year-old woman in Texas cast her ballot from an ambulance outside the polling place when her absentee ballot didn't arrive. [CBS]
• Joe the Motherfucking Plumber went to the wrong polling place and tried to good ol' "Do you know who I am?" when he got stopped for speeding this week. Fuck. Off. Dude. [Wonkette]
• Joining JTMP in fucking off should be P.U.M.A. co-founder Will Bower. [CNN]
• Not that she swears, but 114-year-old Gertrude Baines, the daughter of former slaves who voted for Obama today, probably shares that sentiment. [LA Times]

The extant prison nursery programs like the one at the Ohio Reformatory for women in Marysville, has seen only 11% of its graduates violate parole, while the recidivism rate among the greater prison population is 30%. The mothers involved aren't just allowed to care for their babies solo, they're also given "courses on postpartum care, child development, shaken baby syndrome and other topics," says the AP.

Kids benefit from the early bonding as well, as many children are born with incarcerated mothers suffer from higher rates of emotional and behavioral disorders. And anyway, newborns have no idea where they are — they can barely focus their wee eyes! It seems ideal to keep them with their mothers, however profligate, in a controlled environment with supervision and education, rather than thrusting them into the foster care system.

Nursery Programs Allow Imprisoned Moms, Newborns To Bond [AP via Newser]
Earlier: Baby Girls Add Touch Of Pink, Peace To Mexico's Prison System