Denise Fairbanks was 16 years old when her father took her to the Planned Parenthood clinic in southwest Ohio for an abortion in 2004.Her father gave his consent for the procedure, helped his daughter do the paperwork, and was by her side nearly every step of the way, according to court documents.But when Planned Parenthood, which bills itself as “America’s most trusted provider of reproductive healthcare,” goes before a judge in May to defend its actions in this case, it won’t be for violating parental consent laws.Instead, Planned Parenthood must tell the court why it did not report to police that she had been raped. According to the court complaint, Fairbanks said she had been repeatedly sexually abused by her father since she was 13 years old. Fairbanks’ experience with Planned Parenthood is one of several cases now under scrutiny by a congressional panel that has begun a rare investigation of the nonprofit’s policies on notifying the police in cases of rape and incest, sex trafficking, and how it has handled billions of dollars in federal funding.
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