DENTON, Texas —Planned Parenthood and National Abortion Federation abortion affiliates across the United States responded to a caller claiming to be a 13-year-old girl impregnated by a 22-year-old man by advising her to hide the man's age when seeking an abortion, the Texas-based Life Dynamics Inc. charged in a report released in late May.

Sexual activity between an adult man and a 13-year-old girl is a serious felony offense everywhere in the United States.

Life Dynamics said that its report, entitled Child Predators, was based on nine months of covert investigation of facilities affiliated with Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation. According to Life Dynamics, the young female caller informed the facilities that she was seeking to obtain the abortion in order to conceal her sexual activity with the adult man from her parents.

Life Dynamics alleged that in 91% of cases, workers at the clinics contacted by the female caller agreed to keep her sexual relationship with the 22-year-old man secret. As well, many clinics counseled her to be more careful in what she said when she went to obtain an abortion, so as not to raise suspicions that could generate criminal charges.

On May 22, WITC-TV in Hartford, Conn., aired excerpts of tape recordings of calls between the female caller and abortion clinics in Connecticut. It is legal to tape calls without the other party's knowledge in Texas, where the Life Dynamics calls originated.

An employee of the Willimantic Planned Parenthood clinic was recorded telling the caller not to mention her adult sex partner when she sought her abortion.

“They won't ask anything about him?” she asked.

“I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that, OK?” the employee responded. “Don't even bring that up, OK?”

On another taped call, an employee at Planned Parenthood's New London facility coached the female caller on what to avoid saying when calling a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Norwich to arrange an abortion.

“When you go to Norwich, you're going to want to give them a call. Don't tell them that information,” the New London Planned Parenthood employee said.

Responded the girl, “Then it will be OK?”

Replied the Planned Parenthood employee: “If you do not say the age of your partner … otherwise there's going to be a lot of stuff going on that you're probably not going to want to have happen.”

WITC-TV contacted Planned Parenthood for verification of the authenticity of the taped calls, but said it received only a brief statement challenging Life Dynamics' credibility. “Planned Parenthood questions the reliability of staged tapes of supposed telephone conversations surreptitiously prepared by Life Dynamics, an organization with a notorious anti-Planned Parenthood agenda,” the Planned Parenthood statement said.

The television station said that it also contacted every Connecticut facility Life Dynamics claimed to have taped. In each case, the station reported, the dial tones heard on the tapes matched the tones heard by WITC's reporter. As well, the station requested to speak with employees with the names used by those heard talking on the tapes. In each case, employees by those names existed, even though some names, such as Glenda and Heidi, were not common ones.

In a May 22 press release, Life Dynamics charged that “American abortion clinics and family planning organizations are knowingly violating state and federal laws that require them to report the sexual abuse of children.”

Said Mark Crutcher, founder and president of Life Dynamics: “No matter how someone feels about abortion, most people will agree that the abuse of these young girls needs to be reported. The fact that these incidences are not reported is bad enough, but the fact that they are not being reported simply to protect a financial and political agenda is even more reprehensible.”