Proposed Law in Mexico Would Send Doctors Who Don't Suggest Abortion to Jail

Doctors who fail to inform their pregnant patients that they have the legal right to have an abortion -- or who refuse to refer women to doctors who perform abortions -- could be thrown into the slammer for up to four years, if the dominant political party in Mexico City's legislature has its way.

Doctors who fail to inform their pregnant patients that they have the legal right to have an abortion -- or who refuse to refer women to doctors who perform abortions -- could be thrown into jail for up to four years, if the dominant political party in Mexico City's legislature has its way.

A bill has been co-introduced by the city's Health Committee chairwoman and a leading legislator that would mandate that all pregnant women in Mexico City be informed that they have the right to have an abortion in their first three months.

The bill, which is being debated in the legislature and is expected to pass, has the support of more than a dozen members of Mexico City’s ruling Democratic Revolution party -- the same party that passed the 2007 law that legalized abortion in Mexico’s capital city.

If passed into law, doctors who do not discuss abortion with their pregnant patients will be subject to penalties that include one to four years in prison, heavy fines and the loss of their medical licenses.

Legal analysts in Mexico say the bill is the pro-choice activists' latest weapon in Mexico's increasingly contentious war over abortion.

The legislator who introduced the bill, Beatriz Rojas, says the law is needed because “moral or religious concepts intend to influence the decision of the woman, misinforming her or deceiving her, regarding the decision to interrupt the pregnancy."

Conservative groups are predictably aghast.

“This is absurd and stupid,” said Patricia Lopez Mancera, director of the Center for Women’s Studies and Comprehensive Formation in Cancun. “They say doctors should tell the pregnant women about it and recommend abortion -- can you imagine?”

“This is from the Nazi feminists in Mexico who are looking for a culture of death.”

The initiative was introduced on April 22, the third anniversary of the legalization of abortion in Mexico City through the first three months of pregnancy.

John Ackerman, a legal analyst and professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, said the introduction of the bill shows how contentious the debate over abortion has become in the city in the three years since the law was passed. He said it also symbolizes an increasing cultural divide in Mexico, whose population was 88 percent Roman Catholic in 2000, according to census figures, but which historically has been more secular than the United States.

The country's religious right was prevented, both by public opinion and the law, from participating in politics prior to 2007 -- but that all changed when abortion was legalized, Ackerman said.

Following Mexico City's decision to legalize abortion, 17 of the country’s 32 states amended their constitutions to include a clause that protects human life from the moment of conception.

“Mexico City took these steps and there’s been a real strong backlash by the religious right in Mexico in a way we’ve never seen it before,” Ackerman said. “The culture wars have arrived in Mexico.”

He said he was not particularly surprised by the legislators' new initiative and took it as a demonstration of the intense nature of cultural and political dispute in Mexico City -- and as the pro-choice ruling party’s latest weapon in the war over abortion.

“This law, it’s to try to break the back of the religiously inspired who’ve really become a national resistance,” he said. “This is a response to extremely aggressive moral religious politics that’s taken off since approval of this law and the way politicians and [the] religious right have tried to undermine the application of this law.”

But Mancera says the Mexico City initiative is only fueling the conservative charge against the abortion rights movement.

“All this is doing is giving us more strength,” she said. “We can’t believe this. They will be now putting doctors in prison for something that can go against their values and principles.

“They are seeing that finally the pro-family and pro-women society is really sticking up and they are reacting and somebody has to stop them and stop all this craziness.”

Ackerman said the proposed law indicates that some doctors in Mexico City are refusing to inform patients of their right to an abortion. And he said that while middle-class women who read the newspapers are aware that abortion is legal, poor women probably don't know.

“Doctors have to inform women of their possibility of aborting -- this means that there’s lots of doctors that are really trying to fool these women that this is not the case and they don’t have these rights,” he said.

“There’s a long tradition of rights existing in the Constitution but in practice it is often lacking in implementation. That is why these kinds of laws are important.”

Ackerman disputes that the bill's implications for doctors are severe, because the sentence calls for 1-to-4-years, and people convicted of crimes punishable by a short prison term don’t end up going to prison.

“It’s a little bit exaggerated to say they’ll send doctors to jail,” he said.

According to Steve Mosher, President of the Population Research Institute, there are 8.5 million residents in Mexico City proper -- the so-called Federal District -- including 2.24 million women of reproductive age.

Cartoon of the Day - Set the Gulf on Fire

Today on Kresta - April 29, 2010

Talking about the "things that matter most" on April 29
Live from the national book launch of “Good Returns” by George Schwartz of the Ave Maria Catholic Values Funds

4:00 – Good Returns: Making Money by Morally Responsible Investing
Offering time-tested wisdom on the complexities of the investment process, George Schwartz is here to examine the difference between socially responsible investing and morally responsible investing—the latter of which screens companies according to a clear set of criteria: those who support or service the abortion industry, producers and distributors of pornography, and companies involved in embryonic stem cell research. Based on this set of guidelines, as well as the success of the Ave Maria Mutual fund, George demonstrates that high returns are achievable while investing in a morally responsible way. Also included is insightful commentary on the current political policies affecting the country’s financial state.

4:40 – Wall of Separation: The Phrase That Divided America
The Supreme Court has ruled that a cross can remain at a WWII Memorial in the Mojave Desert, a decision that comes on the heels of a federal court decision which struck down the National Day of Prayer as unconstitutional. Will we ever have clarity on the establishment clause? We talk with Brian Godawa, award-winning screenwriter of the documentary “Wall of Separation: The Phrase That Divided America.” The documentary takes a look at how our understanding of church and state relations has changed through history by means of Supreme Court decisions and cultural pressures. From Everson vs. Board of Education to the most recent decisions, this documentary raises questions: Should "original intent" guide modern interpretation? Should government be secular, or should religion have influence on the State? There are no easy answers to this ongoing debate that polarizes the nation.

5:00 – Kresta Comments - Censorship: Comedy Central, Islam, and the Tea Party Movement

5:20 – Morally Responsible Investing
As we broadcast live from the National Launch of George Schwartz’s book “Good Returns,” we talk with Thomas Monaghan. Tom had an important role in the founding of the Ave Maria Mutual Funds as a co-founder. We talk about screens and filters on investments, the “family of funds” and Tom’s main priority – Catholic Education.

5:40 – HBO’s “You Don’t Know Jack” (Kevorkian)
HBO has aired its film “You Don’t Know Jack,” of course, the story of the infamous Dr. Death, Jack Kevorkian, who gained notoriety in the late 80s and throughout the 90s for promoting and committing physician assisted suicide. Convicted of 2nd degree homicide in 1999, Kevorkian spent 8 years in prison. Widely assumed to be a positive portrayal of Kevorkian, one pro-life activist who helped to bring Kevorkian down, says “I don't think they glamorized him (Kevorkian). I think he came off as a pathetic little freak." We talk to Lynn Mills and Rita Marker from the International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force.

A look at how seminaries are screening who enters the priesthood

Weigel rips Hans Kung on Pope attack, waits for real response

Thanks to Catholic News Agency for this story.

George Weigel, who recently took the dissenting theologian Fr. Hans Kung to task for his attacks against Pope Benedict, said he would welcome a response from the priest “in which the issues were truly engaged.” But, the scholar qualified, “another Swiss volcanic eruption wouldn't serve much purpose.”

In an April 16 open letter to the Catholic bishops of the world, published in the Irish Times and other venues, Kung criticized Pope Benedict’s engagement of Protestants, Jews and Muslims; his support for Catholic teaching on birth control and condoms; and his approach to the Second Vatican Council.

Kung also commented specifically on the sexual abuse controversy, saying:

“There is no denying the fact that the worldwide system of covering up sexual crimes committed by clerics was engineered by the Roman Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under Cardinal Ratzinger (1981-2005).”

George Weigel responded to this in an April 21 letter of his own, published on the website of the journal First Things.

When asked by CNA last Friday why he felt compelled to respond to Kung's letter, Weigel said that he was “struck by the extraordinary vitriol of the article and by its misstatements of fact, both of which required a response.” Weigel added that he would welcome a response from Kung “in which the issues were truly engaged,” but that “another Swiss volcanic eruption wouldn't serve much purpose.”

On April 21, he called Kung’s charge against Pope Benedict “a tissue of falsehoods.” The theologian’s comment, Weigel said, was “manifestly ignorant” of the fact that sexual abuse cases were not under then-Cardinal Ratzinger’s oversight until 2001.

This ignorance forfeits “any claim to be taken seriously on this, or indeed any other matter involving the Roman Curia and the central governance of the Catholic Church.”

Weigel noted his own criticisms of the mishandling of abuse cases by individual bishops and by Vatican authorities before then-Cardinal Ratzinger began to press for reforms.

Judging from this experience, Weigel said Kung’s description of Cardinal Ratzinger’s role was “ludicrous to anyone familiar with the relevant history.”

That description was also belied by “the experience of American bishops who consistently found Ratzinger thoughtful, helpful, deeply concerned about the corruption of the priesthood by a small minority of abusers, and distressed by the incompetence or malfeasance of bishops.”

He especially criticized the Irish Times editors who subtitled Kung’s letter with the claim the Pope was “directly responsible for engineering the global cover-up of child rape perpetrated by priests, according to this open letter to all Catholic bishops.”

Weigel said this was a “grotesque falsification of the truth” and “shameful.”

He suggested that Kung owes Pope Benedict XVI a public apology for “a calumny that I pray was informed in part by ignorance (if culpable ignorance).”

“I assure you that I am committed to a thoroughgoing reform of the Roman Curia and the episcopate,” Weigel’s letter concluded. “But there is no path to true reform in the Church that does not run through the steep and narrow valley of the truth. The truth was butchered in your article in the Irish Times. And that means that you have set back the cause of reform.”

Fr. Hans Kung served as an expert at the Second Vatican Council with Fr. Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI. He is now a well-known dissenter from Catholic teaching on many points and has been barred from teaching Catholic theology.

Today Warns About Ads Geared To Kids...Then Breaks for Ad Geared To Kids

NBC's Matt Lauer, on Wednesday's "Today"teases a segment about the evils of businesses advertising to kids, right before going to an actual ad geared to kids. This is classic. Watch and enjoy.

Cartoon of the Day - Red Ink

Today on Kresta - April 28, 2010

Talking about the "things that matter most" on April 28

4:00 – Kresta Comments

4:40 – Wall Street Reform and the Presidential Debt Commission
As Congress continues to battle over a Wall Street Reform bill, President Barack Obama has launched the Presidential Debt Commission. Yesterday, the President said that the commission will suggest ways to rein in soaring U.S. budget deficits and told them to consider every possible remedy to put the country on a path toward fiscal health. Obama said the 18-member bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility, which held its first meeting, would be free to work without limitations. He declined to discuss what revenue increases or spending cuts the panel should consider. The U.S. deficit was $1.4 trillion in 2009, nearly 10 percent of the overall economy, and it could be higher this year. We talk with George Schwartz, author of Good Returns: Making Money by Morally Responsible Investing.

5:00 – Disney’s “Oceans”
Disneynature’s debut film, Earth, was a 90-minute sifting of “Planet Earth,” the BBC’s massive documentary miniseries about life on Earth. Fans of “Planet Earth” and its marine companion series “Blue Planet” might wonder whether Disneynature’s new film Oceans was likewise distilled from the latter series. It’s not. Wider in scope and subject matter, this new film is no less breathtakingly up-close and personal with its subjects. Nature docs thrive on firsts, and Oceans has some eye-poppers. Steven Greydanus has the review.

5:20 – High court rules cross doesn't violate separation of church and state
The Supreme Court narrowly ruled today that a white cross, erected as a war memorial and sitting on national parkland in the Mojave Desert, does not violate the constitutional separation of church and state. The 5-4 majority said Congress acted properly when it tried to transfer land around the Mojave Memorial Cross to veterans groups, an effort to eliminate any Establishment Clause violation. The land then would have been declared a national memorial. A federal appeals panel had previously blocked that land swap. Attorney Charles LiMandri is here to discuss this ruling.

5:40 – 50 Years After “The Pill”
An end to poverty. A cure for divorce. The elimination of unwed pregnancy. Fifty years ago next month, when the Food and Drug Administration announced that it would approve the oral contraceptive, these were the highest expectations for it. Janet Smith is here to look at the “Pill” – 50 years later. She says that the science is unequivocal. Fifty years after FDA approval, chemical contraception is bad for women, couples, society and the environment.

Outrageous Statement of the Day

Back when Bush complained about the media, Keith Olbermann responded by reading a Edward R. Murrow quote that said "accusation depends on evidence and due process of law." But post-2008, I guess that went out the window. I'm still perplexed as to why Olberman does not allow any debate or dissent on his show. He only interviews lefty friends.Never a divergent point of view. At least Rachel Maddow will talk to people she disagrees with.

Cartoon of the Day - Investors Cheat Sheet

Today on Kresta - April 27, 2010

Talking about the "things that matter most" on April 27

4:00 – Divorced. Catholic. Now What?
Divorce is hard. And despite the Catholic Church's teaching against divorce, Catholics divorce at the same rate as the rest of society. Especially for Catholics, divorce is a complicated issue that is hard on spouses, children, family and friends – it affects us all. When a Roman Catholic experiences divorce, there is much confusion over just what the annulment process is and what it's significance is, as well as other issues that create uncertainty, such as being able to receive Communion, what the Catholic Church's views on dating are, and certainly the issue of remarriage. But most importantly, Catholic men and women struggle to find support and healing from divorce. Lisa Duffy has suffered through the pain of being a divorced Catholic and knew that after seven years intense struggle, spiritual growth, personal triumphs, and finally remarriage in the Church and the birth of three miracle children, her one desire was to help others who were suffering find hope and healing. She is the co-author of, Divorced. Catholic. Now What? Navigating Your Life After Divorce and joins us to discuss the opportunity for a tremendous healing experience, no matter how long it's been since a divorce and what the family and friends of a divorcee can do to aid the process.

5:00 – The Reformation Project
Reformation - The usual term for the religious movement which made its appearance in Western Europe in the sixteenth century, and which, while ostensibly aiming at an internal renewal of the Church, really led to a great revolt against it, and an abandonment of the principal Christian beliefs. Due to the great amount of ignorance and misconception about the Reformation, Fr. Mitch Pacwa has embarked on a 10-part video series entitled The Reformation Project. We take a look.

Did you notice? Timothy McVeigh & Tea Partiers both begin with T?

All fallacious arguments are a form of intellectual transgression related to "Overgeneralization" or "The argument of the beard." You may be unfamiliar with the second of these which always tickles me.

It's power derives from the apparent impossibility of distinguishing at precisely what point an unkempt spread of hair on an adolescent's face becomes a beard. "How many hairs does it take to make a beard?" "Oh, you can't answer me then you don't know the difference between Mr. Clean and Allen Ginsburg."

Propagandists of all sorts love using the argument from the beard. It assumes that people cannot perceive important distinctions or distinguish one thing from another. The politics of personal destruction rely heavily on these two intellectual acts of malice aforethough--- whether from left or right. Mark Steyn does a masterful and fun job at illustrating.

Here's a taste: [Democrats are trying to shore up the President's popularity by dismissing or trashing his opposition.] "Hence, Bill Clinton energetically on the stump, summoning all his elder statesman’s dignity (please, no giggling) in the cause of comparing tea partiers to Timothy McVeigh. Oh, c’mon, they’ve got everything in common. They both want to reduce the size of government, the late Mr. McVeigh through the use of fertilizer bombs, the tea partiers through control of federal spending, but these are mere nuanced differences of means, not ends. Also, both “Tim” and “Tea” are three-letter words beginning with “T”: Picture him upon your knee, just Tea for Tim and Tim for Tea, you’re for him and he’s for thee, completely interchangeable. To lend the point more gravitas, President Clinton packed his reading glasses and affected his scholarly look, with the spectacles pushed down toward the end of his nose, as if he’s trying to determine whether that’s his 10 a.m. intern shuffling toward him across the broadloom or a rabid armadillo Al Gore brought along for the Earth Day photo op." Enjoy the full column here.

Outrageous Statement of the Day

Academy Award-winning Director James Cameron said that climate change is “as great as the threat” the United States faced in World War II. Enough said.

Cartoon of the Day - Muslim Fundamentalism And Freedom of the Press

Today on Kresta - April 23, 2010

Talking about the "things that matter most" on Apr. 23
"Best of Kresta in the Afternoon" this week as Al and Nick participate in the Ave Maria Radio Membership Drive, necessary to keep programs like "Kresta in the Afternoon" on the air and distributed to over 150 stations across the country. If you can financially support the program, please go to http://www.avemariaradio.net/ and make your pledge!!!

4:00 – Abe Lincoln: The Father of Big Government?
There is a persistent rumor in the ether of talking heads that runs something like this: If we want to know who the “father” of big government in the United States is, point the finger at . . . Abraham Lincoln. Of course, it has been a long time since Abraham Lincoln was headline news, and most Americans will meet this with little more than a shrug of the shoulders. But there is a certain strain of conservative thinking today that gets its jollies from wailing that big government has been a slow-growing cancer in American life, so slow in fact that its origins need to be traced back to the 16th president. Whatever the motivation, they’ve got the wrong man in Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln scholar Alan Guelzo is here to make his case.

4:20 – Medjugorje: Why did the Vatican take the unprecedented step of creating a commission to study the alleged apparitions?
The Vatican commission studying the alleged Marian apparitions at Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina held its first meeting in late March. While the Vatican press office provided no details about the meeting, it published the names of the commission members this week. The Vatican had announced March 17 that at the request of the bishops of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had established an international commission to investigate the claims of six young people who said Mary appeared to them daily beginning in 1981. Although the apparitions apparently are continuing and thousands of people travel to the small town each month to meet the alleged seers and to pray, the Catholic Church has never made a formal declaration about the authenticity of the apparitions. The doctrinal congregation appointed retired Cardinal Camillo Ruini, former papal vicar of Rome, to head the commission. We look at why the Vatican took the unprecedented step of creating a commission to study the alleged apparitions?

5:00 – Healing Marriages of Control and Trust Issues
More marriages and families these days are affected by control and trust issues, says Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons, but through the sacraments and practice of virtue these problems can be overcome. This was the theme of a recent webinar in a series sponsored by the Institute for Marital Healing, which offers resources for couples, counselors and clergy on the topics of parenting, manhood, family life and marriage. Fitzgibbons, the director of the institute, has worked with thousands of couples and has spoken and written extensively on these topics. In 2008, he was also appointed as a consultant for the Holy See's Congregation for Clergy. Fitzgibbons is here to look at modern causes of trust issues, the distinction between being strong and being controlling, and particular virtues that provide an antidote to these problems.

5:40 – 7 Deadly Sins / 7 Lively Virtues
As we enter the season of Lent last week, we hear an engaging presentation concerning the Seven Deadly Sins, those great spiritual blocks that inhibit our flourishing in relationship with God and one another. Based on Dante’s writings, the seven deadly sins correspond to the seven stories of Dante’s Mt. Purgatory. Pride, envy, anger, sloth, gluttony, avarice and lust are all presented as patterns of dysfunction within us that lead to unhappiness. But that’s not all! Father Robert Barron tells us how to counteract these seven sinful patterns through a conscious process of opposition, which are the Seven Lively Virtues. The Seven Lively Virtues offer antidotes to each sin and help set us on the right path to healing and happiness.

Crude words from a Cardinal and a Senator

"A proposed immigration bill in Arizona has escalated a war of words between a Senator and Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony. The cardinal attacked the bill on his Internet blog, likening the bill to 'German Nazi and Russian Communist techniques' that compelled people to turn each other in. Senator Russell Pearce, the author of the bill declared on a radio talk show that Mahony was a 'guy who's been protecting child molesters and predators all of his life.'" See article here.

Extremist language from either side will not solve America's immigration problem.  But that's not my reason for posting this. I'm more interested in the latent anti-Catholicism among certain types of "faith, family and freedom" conservatives. While Pearce is a Mormon, not an evangelical Christian, politically conservative Mormons, have long identified with politically conservative Protestants. Mormonism teaches that there was a great apostasy in the post-apostolic Church. In 1820, Joseph Smith had his first vision and this is counted as the beginning of the restoration of the true church, gospel and priesthood. It's a position hard to reconcile with a Catholic understanding of the Faith.
Catholic and non-Catholic Christians have worked together on various cultural issues for a generation. With some types of Protestants this has been a real fraternal alliance. With others, not much more than co-belligerance. Evangelical Protestants are themselves aware of this. There exists a tension between the triumphalist "Christian America" movement represented by popular speakers like David Barton and the more cautious, self-critical evangelical activism of Chuck Colson. That tension has its roots in attitudes toward the Catholic Church and whether America is at heart a "Protestant" country.

Opposition to abortion will keep these factions working together with Catholics. Catholics with a sense of history are themselves wary of what they see as a movement that lionizes "Protestant" America. Generally conservative pro-life Catholics who like to think of themselves as defenders of faith, family and freedom have no interest in a return to the nativist evangelical Protestantism that dominated America in the first half of the 19th century. This was the type of Protestantism that supported public schools because they would Americanize all those Catholic immigrants and crusaded against "rum, Romanism, and rebellion." This anti-Catholic slur spoken by a leading Protestant supporter of James Blaine (R) cost him the 1884 presidential election against Grover Cleveland.


Cultural Protestantism of this sort carried considerable cultural clout into the beginning of the 20th century.  The Scopes "monkey" trial of 1925 and the shaming of William Jennings Bryan as well as the later repeal of prohibition are often the cultural markers used to represent the final cultural defeat of this type of Protestantism. 
 
There are some serious historical tensions that the "new right" of the 1970s never resolved. Cardinal Mahony's quick accusation of racist xenophobia brought out the crude anti-Catholicism resting under Pearce's "faith, family, freedom" public face.

Outrageous (Action) of the Day

MSNBC on Wednesday suspended host Donny Deutsch in the wake of a segment on Tuesday about what role television anchors and commentators play in making this country "America the angry." The problem? He didn't defend Keith Olbermann when he and Ed Schultz (MSNBC hosts) were mentioned as often being "angry". Apparently MSNBC only sees FOX and conservative radio hosts as angry, and if their minions fail to even defend a fellow host - they get suspended.

Cartoon of the Day - Teachers in 1960 and 2010

Today on Kresta - April 22, 2010

Talking about the "things that matter most" on Apr. 22
"Best of Kresta in the Afternoon" this week as Al and Nick participate in the Ave Maria Radio Membership Drive, necessary to keep programs like "Kresta in the Afternoon" on the air and distributed to over 150 stations across the country. If you can financially support the program, please go to http://www.avemariaradio.net/ and make your pledge!!!

 4:00 – Pope Benedict XVI: 5 Years Later
Last week was Pope Benedict’s birthday as less as the 5 year anniversary of his election to the Papacy. We have assembled a roundtable of guests to discuss the first 5 years of the reign of Benedict XVI. We look at his travels, his encyclicals, his reforms, the sex abuse scandal, and much much more. Our guests will be Kishore Jayabalan, Matthew Bunson, and Fr. Robert Sirico.

5:00 – No Turning Back: A Witness to Mercy
Many who know of Fr. Donald Calloway know him because of his conversion story. He has spoken of it at conferences, on television, radio, online, and wherever he can spread the message. His new book finally captures in print how Divine Mercy, through the intercession of the Blessed Mother, touched his life. In his own words, No Turning Back recounts Fr. Donald's personal story of conversion after reading a book about Our Lady. Though today he is a devout Catholic Marian priest, Fr. Donald's early years were no indication of what was to come. Before his conversion to Catholicism, he was a high school dropout who had been kicked out of a foreign country, institutionalized twice and thrown in jail multiple times. We look at how Our Lady led to his conversion and ardent love of Mary and the Church.

Failure to Report Sexual Abuse - Again, and Again, and Again

This undercover footage was taken by Live Action President Lila Rose and Live Action Actor Jackie Stollar who both posed undercover as minors with Rose telling the staff that she was 14-years-old and impregnated by her 31-year-old "boyfriend".

In the video, the EMW counselor named "Wendy" determines that Rose is “14 to 15-weeks pregnant” and Rose expresses that she wants to keep the situation secret from her parents. Despite not giving any indication that Rose will face abusive parents, the clinic guides Rose to call Louisville attorney Mickey Adams so that Adams can help Rose obtain a judicial bypass around Kentucky's parental consent law and avoid parental knowledge of the abortion or sexually abusive relationship.

In the state of Kentucky, sex between a 14-year-old and a 31-year-old is rape in the third degree and would reasonably be considered sexual abuse of a child which must be reported to law enforcement immediately. The clinic failed to ask the questions necessary to file a child sexual abuse report and did not communicate to Rose about the illegal or dangerous nature of her sexual relationship.