Sad Anniversary: Two years since Ballard HS teen abortion scandal

This is the week the Ballard High School teen abortion scandal broke.
Here's a round-up of the stories from that date.

Here's our coverage of the scandal and stories related to teen clinics, Hopelink/Medicaid Transports to abortion appointments, Planned Parenthood in the schools.

These teen clinics serve as surrogates for Planned Parenthood in the schools. Slowly and steadily they've been able to worm their way in -- from the pre-schools to the high schools.

And no one's done anything to stop it.

DSHS Knowingly Violating Hyde Amendment, Using Federal Tax Dollars to Fund Abortions

In this exclusive report, AIW can now reveal the results of an investigation into Washington and other states in which we have learned that they are routinely violating federal law.

Since 1976, it has been illegal to use federal Medicaid money to pay for abortions. States that opted to subsidize the abortion industry through Medicaid had to make sure to carefully segregate funds so that abortions were only paid for out of state Medicaid dollars. (Medicaid is a federal program with a complicated funding formula, but in brief, it's funded from a mix of federal and state monies.)

But the Medicaid program also includes a relatively little-known program called "Medicaid Transportation". This program pays for the travel costs to and from medical appointments that are covered by Medicaid. The rationale is, apparently, that a doctor appointment is no good if you can't get to it.

Since states like Washington (and California and New York) pay for abortions under Medicaid, the travel to and from the abortion clinic is also picked up by the Medicaid program.

Readers may remember our coverage of the scandal last year in which a Ballard High School student was taken from school for an abortion without her parents' knowledge, all arranged by the schools' "Health Clinic" (run by Swedish Hospital). During this investigation we also discovered that Hopelink, an organization that milks unwitting churches and other groups into partnership to help feed the hungry, is running secret "Abortion Taxis" that shuttle girls and women to and from abortion clinic appointments, often without their parents' knowledge.

KIRO's Dori Monson Confirms Our Reporting on Secret Abortions

If you haven't already, make sure to listen to KIRO's Dori Monson's interview with Jim Stevenson, spokesman for the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), in Olympia. Monson confirms many of the facts we revealed about how our schools and government participate in helping high school students get secret abortions off-campus during the school day, at government expense, behind their parent's backs.

Make sure you're sitting down.

Also listen to his interview with AIW's Mary E.

Our thanks to Monson for his attention to this very important story.

AIW on the Radio Today

I’m going to be on the radio today -- NewsTalk 97.3 KIRO FM – the Dori Monson show between 2pm and 2:30pm.

I'll be discussing the recent controversy over how the state, non-profits, and the school districts work to facilitate secret teen abortions.

Ballard High School 'Secret Abortion Program' Creates National Firestorm

Here's a quick summary of links to some of the coverage of this story from around the nation...

KOMO News 1350 comments

Seattle Times 360 comments

Seattle PI 700 comments

Ken Schram (KOMO News) (323 comments)

FoxNews (Dan Springer Blog) 29 comments

FoxNews (LiveShots) 61 comments

FoxNews (Shep Smith)

FoxNews (Megyn Kelly)

Bill O'Reilly 100 pages of comments

ABC News 307 comments

Hopelink Coordinates Abortion Taxi Service for Seattle Area Teens

Komo News broke a story late Tuesday about a 15-year-old Ballard High School student who was taken for an abortion in Seattle with neither her parents' knowledge nor consent.

Alas, in Washington, secret abortions on high school students are nothing new. What comes as a shock to parents like "Jill', the mother other of the aborted teen, is the seamless end-to-end system that has been set up to facilitate these abortions. This system includes the school districts, abortion industry, public health officials, the state legislature, and certain non-profits that leave nothing to chance.

One part of this story that went almost unnoticed was the fact that this girl was taken to the abortion center in a taxi.

Who paid for the taxi? How did it get to the school? Who dispatched it? Which abortion provider did it take her to? AIW has learned that taxi services to "contracting school districts throughout King County" are provided by the Redmond-based non-profit Hopelink.

Can that be right? Can an organization supported by churches and police departments be secretly operating a shuttle service to take girls from their high school classrooms in the middle of the school day to an abortion clinic, and then back to school, all without Mom and Dad finding out?