Although women are the people responsible for populating the future generations, their health care is always on the backburner. Some people believe that women should not have the rights to their own body, and in turn have no access to reproductive care, or healthcare in general. Planned Parenthood has been mercilessly attacked by the government because of Congress’ belief on these issues. Right now, under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), women have legal and full access to breast and cervical cancer screenings, STI testing, birth control, and abortions in cases of rape, incest, and endangerment to the mother’s life. All of these services are also covered by Planned Parenthood, a center that is designed for women’s health. If the Affordable Care …show more content…
GOP lawmakers are trying to shut down Planned Parenthood clinics across the country, on the basis that all they do is provide abortions. On the contrary, only three percent of Planned Parenthood services are abortions. They provide a variety of services for both men and women , including general health care and sex health. Some general health care includes cholesterol, high blood pressure, and anemia screening, cancer testing, vaccines, and physical exams. They try to make it as accessible and as affordable as they can, and accept most health care insurance, so that even low income men and women are able to get sufficient healthcare. Planned Parenthood also offers many different sexual and reproductive health services for both men and women. For women, they offer birth control, the contraceptive pill, STD testing, pregnancy care, and abortions when needed. They also offer screenings for breast, cervical, and ovarian cancer. Contrary to popular belief, they also offer sexual health services for men, including condoms, vasectomies, colon, prostate, and testicular cancer screenings, erectile dysfunction treatment, and STD screenings. Many people believe that Planned Parenthood is only for women getting abortions. On the other hand, Planned Parenthood offers many services for both men and women that are essential to their health and well being at a low cost. Without Planned Parenthood, many men and women …show more content…
They believe that the Planned Parenthood clinic is immoral and has even been called a “scandal-plagued organization” by Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), because of their “lack of compassion towards women and unborn children.” Congress claims that there will be no reduction to the funding of women’s health, only that it will go to a clinic that does not provide abortion services. The problem with this new plan is that many low-income women rely on Planned Parenthood for most of their healthcare services, and defunding the clinic would leave these women with no service. Although Republican congressmen claim that there are 9,000 other clinics around the country that provide women’s healthcare without providing abortions, they are still diminishing the amount of services that women have around the country. Not to mention that abortion is a basic and essential health need for women all around the world. Lawmakers are trying to regulate women’s bodies, and in turn, giving dead bodies more rights to their body than to pregnant women. Women may not be able to afford the maternity care that comes with being pregnant, especially if maternity care becomes not covered by insurance. They also may not have the time or energy to be pregnant for nine months, if they are in high school or college or have a demanding job that pregnancy limits them from doing. It is a right for women to be able to have control over
Planned Parenthood is more than just an abortion clinic When people think of Planned Parenthood, their mind goes straight to abortion. Americans believe that all Planned Parenthood does is perform abortions, which is a very flawed misconception. The non-profit organization does a lot more than that, they promote safe sex, prevent unplanned pregnancies, provide preventive care and screening for cervical and other cancers. I think that it’s important that we continue funding Planned Parenthood because without it women in America will be left without important resources.
There are many other women who do not live as well as myself, who do not have the same privilege as I do. These women need Planned Parenthood to prevent disease and unplanned pregnancies. To pretend that these people do not need Planned Parenthood to stay healthy, to survive, is almost as ludicrous as the notion that Planned Parenthood endorses the killing of innocent lives. Planned Parenthood is much more than abortions. It stands for the rights of women as humans, as people who need help, to improve the lives of those who cannot improve theirs on their own.
It is vital that Congress change course so that these, as well as similar programs, be expanded. In particular, we need to protect federal funding for Planned Parenthood, which provides important preventive services for women such as mammograms and conception. In Maryland, more than 40,000 people rely on Planned Parenthood for health care every year and thousands of Maryland students receive an accurate and complete education about reproductive health from Planned Parenthood educators.4 The recent attacks on Planned Parenthood show just how far some will go to prevent women from taking control of their health and well-being. In Congress, I will fight against Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, and I will never let the government come between a woman and her doctor.
As a result, Oregon Right to Life promotes defunding Planned Parenthood and supports
Throughout history Planned Parenthood has been in the spotlight of the court. In 1973, the supreme court case Roe v. Wade made headlines when it “ruled unconstitutional a state law that banned abortions except to save the life of the mother” (McBride) The case was brought up by Jane Roe, who said that banning abortions was in direct violation with her 14th amendment right to privacy.
What I would like for people to realize is that Planned Parenthood is more that meets they eye. They are more than people give them credit for, and they are more than an abortion clinic. The services they provide range anywhere from sexual education and contraception education to helping with gender identity and sexual orientation, or from reproductive services to cancer screenings and STI testing and treatment. They services they provide are endless, and all equally important. As someone who has struggled with their sexual orientation and with self acceptance, if I had known that Planned Parenthood provided services such as these, I would have taken advantage of them and gotten the guidance that I needed.
Lastly, the number of abortions would go up if Planned Parenthood were to be defunded. Planned Parenthood offers more than just abortions, whilst they are a very small part of what Planned Parenthood offers. 42% of what they offer is STI/STD testing and treatment, 34% is contraception, an 11% is other women’s health services, 9% being cancer screening and prevention, then abortion at a small 3% of what they offer, while 1% is other services. This
ON September 19th, the House of Representatives voted to defund Planned Parenthood. Mike DeBonis for the Washington explains in House votes to defund Planned Parenthood, but will that help avert a shutdown? the events that occurred in the House. Two bills were passed, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act and Defund Planned Parenthood Act. The former addressing criminal penalties if a health staff member did not help a child produced from a failed abortion, the latter addressing a year of no funds going to the Planned Parenthood group.
After hearing these facts’, you can better understand what Planned Parenthood is and that they contribute way more help to are society then just abortions, and by offering these health benefits we would keep cutting back the number of unplanned pregnancies and that would cut back the number of
The majority of the organization’s patients depend on Planned Parenthood for their health care. They play an important responsibility in providing examinations for patients from Title X and Medicaid. Medicaid and Title X are social health care programs for families and individual with limited resources due to their financial situation. It was stated that, “60% of Planned Parenthood’s patients depends on health care, such as Medicaid and Title X in order to pay for their primary care doctor... If they did not have Planned Parenthood available, they would not be able to educate themselves and attend gynecologist appointments, regularly” (How Federal Funding Works at Planned Parenthood).
Planned Parenthood is a topic that is continuously discussed in correlation with the concept of money as many believe that it “...emphasizes abortions instead of preventative care” (Attira). Because of birthrights, abortions, and the controversy that surrounds such issues, many individuals believe that the government should not be responsible for providing funding. Therefore, actually defunding Planned Parenthood is often brought up as a solution to the highly-debated consensus of government-funded healthcare services. Although many believe that creating a barrier between opinion and action is a positive push, actually defunding the program would be more catastrophic than perceived. Defunding Planned Parenthood would mean blocking and preventing individuals from receiving the health care that they are reliant on.
Planned Parenthood is a National issue fighting for abortion access, giving women facing an unintended pregnancy must have access to safe, legal abortion services. Birth control and the fact all people deserve access to birth control and other preventive care, health care equality and the idea all people should have equal access to reproductive health care. For years politicians in Congress and statehouses across the country have attacked Planned Parenthood’s patients’ access to care. But I believe Planned Parenthood’s health centers provide high quality, affordable reproductive health care, to 2.4 million people across the country. When politicians talk about defunding Planned Parenthood, they really mean depriving patients who depend on public
Allowing women to purchase over the counter contraceptives would save money for the women buying the pills as well as the state. Reproductive health researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have put together a statistical model that represents over the counter birth control being sold for little to no cost for the women. (Belluck) “ In the scenario, an additional 11 to 21 percent of low income women would start using the pill, resulting in an estimated seven to 25 percent decrease in unintended pregnancies” (Belluck). With a decrease in unintended pregnancies money would be saved for the public health plans because they would be paying less for pregnancy and birth
1 out of 5 every 5 American women have visited a PPH at least once, Which is a big number of women if you think about it. Many will oppose me and bring up how we should defund planned parenthood because they still perform abortions which, in religious terms, is morally wrong. But defunding Planned Parenthood threatens millions of men and women's chances of any health care. It also won't stop abortions, it will encourage the practice of at-home abortions or them being performed by someone who isn't licensed. The money Planned Parenthood gets from the government doesn't even go towards abortions.
Planned Parenthood is a program that has been helping people pay for essential procedures without a large fee. It should continue to be covered by the government because of the immense help it has offered people for years. As well as the cost is being funded by Title X which is helping other healthcare organizations across the United States. Planned Parenthood, as well as a negative misconception, is that they only help with abortions. Planned Parenthood helps with anything like educating people about their health.