This Planned Parenthood tweet makes me so many kinds of angry:

Just last week, at the Acton Institute’s annual Acton University event, Yeonmi Park told her story about being a sex slave in China, having escaped her native North Korea with her mother in the hope of a better life. She was introduced to sex by watching her mother be raped on the street. (She had previously heard her mother being raped by the same man, but didn’t know what the terrible noises she heard were.) Because Yeonmi was 13 and a virgin, she was worth more money to traffickers than her mother was. She described only some of the violence done to her as her innocence was robbed.

In her book In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom, Yeonmi writes:

I was only six months past my thirteenth birthday, and small for my age. When Hongewi pressed himself on top of me, I thought I would split in two. I was so scared, and the act was so painful and disgusting and violent that I thought it couldn’t really be happening to me. After a while I actually felt like I had left my body and was sitting on the floor next to the bed. I was watching myself, but it wasn’t me.

As soon as Hongwei was finished with me, I went to the bathroom and showered for what seemed like hours. I felt so dirty. I felt such despair. I rubbed my skin until I bled, and that made me feel a little better. I discovered that physical pain helped me feel less pain inside, and for a while pinching and scratching myself with a rough cloth became a habit. Sometimes it was the only way to escape the aching in my heart.

She describes how she would throw up each night after being raped. But she says she didn’t have it as bad as others did — she visited a brothel where women would have sex with up to a dozen men a day. Customers would pay about $5, and the women were given $1. She knew of women who were gang raped and others who were drugged so they could be used constantly and, as they became addicted, be less likely to run away.

Yeonmi was briefly united with her father before his death to cancer. She wrote:

I could tell he was crushed to see me robbed of my childhood. The only time he hinted at his feelings was once when he hugged me close and breathed in my scent. “You’ve lost your sweet baby smell, Yeonmi-ya,” he said gently. “I miss the way you smelled as a child.”

There’s a movie coming out on July 4 starring Jim Caviezel called The Sound of Freedom, and it’s about child sex-trafficking. It’s a brutal but important movie.

By insisting that abortion, as opposed health care, be so readily available, Planned Parenthood helps make trafficking possible here at home — it is on the side of the men and women (that brothel in China was run by a woman) who hurt children. Insisting that virginity is a social construct proves that Planned Parenthood has no interest in what’s best for girls. Its bottom line requires more abortions, not the protection of innocence.

Sex-traffickers know that virginity is not a social construct. Planned Parenthood wants you to look away from abhorrent crimes being perpetrated against children in our country and our world today. It wants to erase virginity because, if adults in America prioritized protecting the innocence of small children and teenagers once again, that would complicate Planned Parenthood’s work.