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Can we survive if Planned Parenthood was defunded? Planned Parenthood is a non-profit organization that does research into and gives advice on contraception, family planning, and reproductive problems. They work to educate and empower individuals to make independent, informed, decisions about their sexual reproductive lives. Planned Parenthood also provides information, healthcare, and promote public policies that make those services available to all. Defunding would cause serious devastation amongst millions of people. Most of planned parenthood funding is from medicaid reimbursements for preventative care and some are form Title X. For example, say a woman with “medicaid coverage goes to her local planned parenthood health center for …show more content…

35th 35 of all u.s. abortions 35% of all of the U.S abortions are done by Planned Parenthood. Even as a nation National Abortion rate declines, Planned Parenthood abortion numbers continue to rise. Breast exams less than 1% Pap test and zero mammograms annually. Planned Parenthood has been caught lying about what services they provide and submitting fraudulent Medicaid claims Planned Parenthood is currently under investigation by the Department of Justice and the FBI for its role on harvesting and selling fetal tissue.” N.d (2018)“President Trump has kept his promise to protect the live of the unborn. This is a positive step toward making the womb a better place again.” Said Mat Staver. “Title X family planning program was established in 1970 during the Nixon administration. What constitutes “family planning” is a political point of contention. The law prohibits federal funds from being used for abortions. Conservatives have long argued the Planned Parenthood and reproductive health centers like it should be cut off… from federal funding. The latest proposal was announced by Trump administration. The rule would cut off Title X funding to Planned Parenthood and other centers unless they stop providing abortions or referring people. “This proposal does not necessarily defund Planned Parenthood, as long as their willing to disentangle taxpayer funds from abortion as a method of family planning.” A Trump official said. “Any grantees that perform, support, of refer for abortion have a choice: disentangle themselves from abortion of fund their activities with privately raised funds.” Ravitz(2018)Trump move to defund… An effective policy supportive to everyone is circumstantial abortions. Circumstantial abortion is consent of abortion despite of it being illegal due to certain reasons. Circumstantial abortion would include rape, incest

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Recently, it has been known that the Trump administration is helping states to defund Planned Parenthood. In January the government had decided to make, the decision of rescinding guidance from the Obama guidance. This way the Obama administration's previous choice of healthcare will be reversed, and make it easier for states to defund the non-profit organization. This is due to the fact that the Trump administration is heavily influenced by Republican ideals—which includes anti-abortion practices—that can be backed up by the Trump previously signing a legislation that “nullified an Obama-era rule that effectively barred state and local government from withholding federal planning services to groups that provide abortions.” However, Planned Parenthood is much more than an abortion clinic.

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Why Planned Parenthood Should not be Defunded by the Government “Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.” - Richard Carmona, american physician and nurse. This is exactly why Planned Parenthood should not be defunded. It offers many things from contraception, abortion, cancer screenings and preventions along with much more. Also, if they were to be defunded and abortions could no longer go on, many more unplanned pregnancies would happen and the cost of welfare would escalate a lot.

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This is where the controversy within myself starts. Because this idea sets in with women rights as well. I do not believe the government has the right to tell you what you should and shouldn’t do with your child. I do not believe they should help you, and I don’t believe that they should hurt you either. This also means no government funding for planned parenthood.

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Texas abandoned a proposal to expand family planning services to people making 250 percent of the poverty level, Nash says, after state officials learned they could not legally cut Planned Parenthood out of the program.” (Milligan, Planned Parenthood

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A large topic of controversy, should Planned ParentHood stop receiving government funding? This has been a large topic in recent political debates and talks. Many people are pro-choice, while others are typically anti abortion. Those who are anti abortion typically men, or very conservative people. Should Planned ParentHood only be funded by private parties?

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There are 650 health centers, and 56 independent local affiliations (Planned Parenthood at a Glance). That is a substantial amount of facilities to offer just abortions, but the truth is that only three percent of what Planned Parenthood does is for abortion services, 80 percent of their patients receive services to prevent unintended pregnancy (Planned Parent at a Glance). Planned Parenthood offers health care to 2.5 million men and women, 270,000 pap test and 579,000 unintended pregnancies each year(Planned Parenthood Provides Essential Services That Improve Women 's Health Planned Parenthood Provides Essential Services That Improve Women 's Health), and if it was defunded that it would not just affect the funding of abortions but it would cause an estimate of “390,000 women to lose their access to these essential services altogether, and up to 650,000 women might face reduced access to preventive health care within a year” (Planned Parenthood Provides Essential Services That Improve Women 's Health Planned Parenthood Provides Essential Services That Improve Women 's Health). They provide 1.2 million pregnancy test, 360,000 breast exams, and 4.2 million test for sexually-transmitted diseases (Standing with Planned Parenthood) which include more than 650,000 HIV test (Planned Parenthood at a Glance).

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Planned Parenthood Clinics are not needed because there are many federally qualified health centers across the country that can provide service in rural areas that provide family planning services, cancer screenings, and women’s health exams. According to Sarah Toree, a policy analyst at the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society, of the Institute for Family, Community, and Opportunity, at The Heritage Foundation, In 2013, FQHC centers provided services to 21 million people, that is about eight times as many patients as the 2.7 million Planned Parenthood reported seeing. With this report, we can see that it would be better to give more funding to FQHC and defund Planned Parenthood because FQHC are helping more people and without involving abortion. Besides, there are videos circulating the internet that show that Planned Parenthood organizations could be selling the organs of aborted unborn. Also, it is said that Planned parenthood educated people about contraceptives.

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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.

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“Congress Should End Federal Funding to Planned Parenthood and Redirect It Toward Other Health Care Options” is an article written by Sarah Torre in which she explains why it is best to “end taxpayer funding of the nation’s largest abortion provider” (Torre). Planned Parenthood facilities rely heavily on government funds, so without them, these facilities would cease to exist, which is exactly what Torre is supporting. Another point she makes is whether or not Planned Parenthood has violated federal law regarding the distribution and use of fetal tissue of aborted babies. She believes that tax payer’s money should not go toward aiding an institution which has been suspected to harvest the cells of aborted children to conduct research. Other accusations include malpractice, including mistreatment of women during abortions, which, in some cases, have led to complications and death.

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Recent claims have been made by an anti-abortion group, The Center for Medical Progress, that the women’s health organization Planned Parenthood harvests and sells fetal organs from the abortions they perform. This has led to overwhelming responses against Planned Parenthood, including a very large push to defund the organization. In fact, bills have been introduced or passed in the House of Representatives or the Senate that would prevent Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funds. Even though this movement is gaining quick response, the accusations against Planned Parenthood are unsupported and biased. These attacks are unjust and are less about the possible corruption of the organization than about stopping their abortion services.

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Planned Parenthood performs many breast exams, which are needed to detect early cancer, and pap tests, which can find pre-cancerous cells. There’s no question that Planned Parenthood helps prevent and treat very serious sexually transmitted infections and diseases. Moreover, the organization tests for and treas STI’s quite inexpensively. Without Planned Parenthood, women who are uninsured or have a low income would have nowhere to go to get these necessary tests done. Yet in 2015, the republicans attempted to shut down the United States government over funding women’s

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This topic is significant because this program provides health services to about 3 million people in the country and supports services for over one million people outside the United States. Planned Parenthood is the largest single provider of reproductive health services in the United States. It provided 3.6 million contraceptive services, 4.5 million HIV and other STD related services, about 1 million breast, cervical, and other cancer related services, over 1 million pregnancy tests and prenatal services, over 300,000abortion services, and over 100,000 other services, for a total of 10.6 million discrete services. The majority of federal funding comes from Medicaid. Abortion is what is driving the defunding discussion because recent videos

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As a result, there is sympathy for Planned Parenthood from many who believe they are a suffering company, but with recent discoveries, some have changed their minds. Planned Parenthood receives money from the government which adds up to over half a billion dollars annually. The news that broke out about the selling of fetal body parts adds even more money to their pockets. Many anti-abortion agencies have taken all this new information in and are trying harder than ever to shut down abortion clinics across the country. Unfortunately, many still believe

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All of the rallies they run and the members of Congress and other politicians are all in support of abortions. Planned Parenthood and its supporters believe women “should have access to the full range of reproductive health care services, including access to safe and legal abortion.” (Abortion Access.) For over 50 years Planned Parenthood has been advocating for women's reproductive rights and each year their fight gets progressively harder. Planned Parenthood and pro-choice activists everywhere believe that President Donald J. Trump along with other pro-life activists, which are taking away a woman’s right to make her own decisions about pregnancy which was established to have the “highest level of constitutional protection”(Roe v. Wade.)

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Unplanned Parenthood For decades, women’s rights have been compromised at the hands of the government a sector primarily composed of men. Even with the passing of Roe vs. Wade in 1973 declaring a women’s right to privacy of her body a new rival on the issue of abortion has garnered nationwide attention in light of a video released by an anti-abortion organization the Center for Medical Progress. The highly edited video depicting the sale of fetal tissue by a Planned Parenthood facility caused a grand upheaval among politics and the minds of millions of Americans but, in particular, led to the attempted defunding of Planned Parenthood for one year. The following cartoon claims that denying millions of women access to the affordable health services

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