Source: By KEN KUSMER - Associated Press Writer - 1/22/2009 5:45:00 PM

January 27^th, 2009 by Jason T

INDIANAPOLIS - A Planned Parenthood clinic where an undercover video exposed workers failing to report an alleged statutory rape also received a state reprimand last year for sloppy abortion record keeping.

Indiana Health Commissioner Judith Monroe threatened to go to prosecutors if the clinic kept filing official "terminated pregnancy reports" without such required information as the types of procedures and the medications it used.

A copy of the Aug. 27, 2008, reprimand said a 2007 state audit found 278 of the clinic's abortion records were incomplete.

"Future Terminated Pregnancy Reports that lack required information will be referred to the Marion County Prosecutor," Monroe said in a letter to Dr. Michael King, who performs abortions at the Indianapolis clinic, one of three in the state where Planned Parenthood provides abortions.

A Planned Parenthood of Indiana spokeswoman said it is the organization's policy to comply with all state reporting laws and that it has resubmitted the records, but a State Department of Health spokeswoman said some cases remain unresolved.

Indiana Right to Life, which disclosed the reprimand in a news release, said the Indianapolis clinic in some cases did not reveal either the procedure used or the length of gestation for the aborted fetus.

"It raises concerns, when you see both of those factors omitted on the same report," said Mike Fichter, president and CEO of the anti-abortion group.

Indiana law restricts abortions after the first trimester to fetuses that are not viable, unless the mother's health is endangered, and requires such later-term abortions to be performed in hospital settings.

Thursday marked the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 that legalized abortion.

Last month, an anti-abortion group released an undercover video that showed a 20-year-old woman posing as a 13-year-old who had been impregnated by a 31-year-old man. A counselor at the clinic said the age of the father did not concern her.

Indiana law requires anyone learning of sexual acts between an adult and a child under 14 to report them to police or child welfare authorities. The counselor in the video later resigned, and Planned Parenthood said it has brought in an outside agency to retrain its staff on requirements for reporting child abuse.

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