Pros And Cons Of Planned Parenthood

“The current attempt to discredit Planned Parenthood is part of a long-term smear campaign by people who want to deny women in this country the right to control their own bodies” (Senator Bernie Sanders). Planned Parenthood's more than 900 health centers are spread across the United States and offer reproductive health care and sexual health information to men, women, and children. Planned Parenthood should be funded because they give reproductive help to many women and men.

Planned Parenthood offers many different treatments to men and women. According to an article in Scientific American, “ In 2011 it carried out tests and treatment for more than four million individuals with sexually transmitted diseases... And it performed 770,000 Pap

According to the same article, “Access to birth control in the U.S. has helped narrow the income inequality gap between men and women by as much as 30 percent during the 1990s alone. The pill has given women greater choice about when to have children, freeing them up to acquire career skills. By 2009 women procured more than half of all U.S. doctoral degrees, compared with 10 percent in 1960 ” (7). Allowing women the option of birth control puts the option to do anything in their hands. Without birth control more women are becoming pregnant and have to start raising a family before they are even

According to the article “Reproductive Rights”, “In addition to the highly controversial issue of abortion, reproductive rights encompass the ability to access contraception, sex education, surrogate motherhood, in vitro fertilization, and forced and voluntary sterilization”(1). Defunding Planned Parenthood defunds the opportunity for men and women to have these rights that all Americans are given. According to Special Interest Group Profiles for Students, “At a PPFA health center, clients may receive family-planning services such as counseling, abortions or abortion referral, screening for sexually transmitted diseases, contraception or voluntary sterilization, sex education, and adoption referrals”(2). Without these simple reproductive rights families are forced into situations that could be avoided completely. According to ACLU, “But laws that make it difficult if not impossible for a woman to get an abortion if she needs one, particularly if she is poor, are increasing at an alarming pace”(2). More laws that make it illegal for an abortion are being created. However abortion is needed in some situations and with these laws being created women either can not get one if needed or resort to dangerous ways to get one. Planned Parenthood offering abortion has become more and more controversial over the