Planned Parenthood: To Fund, or Not to Fund? Planned Parenthood, an non-profit organization that provides contraceptives, family planning services, women’s healthcare, STI and STD screenings and treatments, cancer prevention and screening, and, yes, abortion services. Planned Parenthood is infamously known for administering abortions although, ironically enough, the organization is the largest preventer of unplanned pregnancies, and in turn abortions. A well-known magazine, The New Yorker addresses the topic of pregnancy rate decline stating, “There is an almost unending stream of data showing that the numbers of abortions and pregnant teen-agers in the U.S. are at their lowest levels in forty years.”(Specter). In support to that, CDC (Centers
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Especially, when Pro-Choice supporters and Pro-Life supporters rally against each other in a long going debate. However, the question of funding Planned Parenthood isn’t the same as the question of supporting abortions. In fact, government funding of Planned Parenthood is prohibited to be used towards abortion services. The argument can be made that although government funding doesn’t go directly to abortion services, government money frees up funds in other aspects of the organization that are used to perform abortions. Now that may hold truth to it, but realistically speaking cutting off funding of Planned Parenthood won’t shut down the organization, or even stop it from provided abortions services, but it will severely limit its medically outreach, and take necessary healthcare from women in poor economic statuses. People refute this fact, in saying that the funds can instead go to healthcare organizations that meet their moral standards and will provide all the same services Planned Parenthood did. That may not be the case though. In one case especially, in Kansas, where Planned Parenthood was voted to be defunded, women’s healthcare funds were also cut the same amount proving this to not be a guaranteed alternative. An article on Life Cite, reports on this saying, “In fact, the Obama administration …show more content…
Doing this fails to recognize a gray area in society, fails to recognize the complexities and dynamics of issues, and fails to recognize the widespread outreach of people it affects. Planned Parenthood, providing abortions as one of their services, often has people declaring it bad, or no good, without crediting it for all the good it does. New videos circulating around the web, of Planned Parenthood’s head doctors discussing selling intact fetal tissue from abortion procedures especially has people in a stir. Gobsmacked by the quick spreading allegations, people are often jumping to assumptions, and conclusions about the organization without doing any actual research on the videos credibility. In an article discussing the videos it’s stated, “Many, including Planned Parenthood, have said the video was heavily edited and is misleading. They say Nucatola was discussing a standard, legal procedure for providing fetal tissue for scientific research, for which clinics are often reimbursed for costs associated with procuring the tissue (as opposed to selling tissue for a profit).”(Carroll). As stated in the quote, the use of fetal tissue for research is perfectly legal with the patients consent, and why not use the otherwise wasted human life, to procure some good in using it for medical research? The out roar over these doctored
Especially, when Pro-Choice supporters and Pro-Life supporters rally against each other in a long going debate. However, the question of funding Planned Parenthood isn’t the same as the question of supporting abortions. In fact, government funding of Planned Parenthood is prohibited to be used towards abortion services. The argument can be made that although government funding doesn’t go directly to abortion services, government money frees up funds in other aspects of the organization that are used to perform abortions. Now that may hold truth to it, but realistically speaking cutting off funding of Planned Parenthood won’t shut down the organization, or even stop it from provided abortions services, but it will severely limit its medically outreach, and take necessary healthcare from women in poor economic statuses. People refute this fact, in saying that the funds can instead go to healthcare organizations that meet their moral standards and will provide all the same services Planned Parenthood did. That may not be the case though. In one case especially, in Kansas, where Planned Parenthood was voted to be defunded, women’s healthcare funds were also cut the same amount proving this to not be a guaranteed alternative. An article on Life Cite, reports on this saying, “In fact, the Obama administration …show more content…
Doing this fails to recognize a gray area in society, fails to recognize the complexities and dynamics of issues, and fails to recognize the widespread outreach of people it affects. Planned Parenthood, providing abortions as one of their services, often has people declaring it bad, or no good, without crediting it for all the good it does. New videos circulating around the web, of Planned Parenthood’s head doctors discussing selling intact fetal tissue from abortion procedures especially has people in a stir. Gobsmacked by the quick spreading allegations, people are often jumping to assumptions, and conclusions about the organization without doing any actual research on the videos credibility. In an article discussing the videos it’s stated, “Many, including Planned Parenthood, have said the video was heavily edited and is misleading. They say Nucatola was discussing a standard, legal procedure for providing fetal tissue for scientific research, for which clinics are often reimbursed for costs associated with procuring the tissue (as opposed to selling tissue for a profit).”(Carroll). As stated in the quote, the use of fetal tissue for research is perfectly legal with the patients consent, and why not use the otherwise wasted human life, to procure some good in using it for medical research? The out roar over these doctored