Despite the numerous accusations that the organization has faced in the past years, Planned Parenthood and other similar groups may have been providing an effective means on educating and making available the use of protection and prevention of unwanted pregnancies. This is demonstrated by numbers released that in 2014, abortion rates in the United States have dropped to a record low of 14.6 per 1000 since 1973. US women are having abortions at the lowest rate on record since Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 decision that legalized abortion. In fact, the rate has been steadily declining over the past three decades from its peak in the 1980’s.
This brings up an issue that has been hotly debated between the two major American political parties, the Democrats and the Republicans. The Republicans largely favor a more fundamentalist standpoint of teaching abstinence only, providing less birth control availability, and outlawing abortions all together. While their opponents across the aisle are
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Both Democrats and Republicans can agree on this simple logic. The question looming over the abortion topic is simply, is it possible to end unwanted pregnancies? The answer to that is no, we cannot. All that can be done is to educate and provide access to the means necessary to reduce unplanned pregnancy. Providing proper sex education and easy access to contraception is the only way. By denying both men and women these, the only thing legislators accomplish is ruining the lives of the parents, especially the mothers, and the children. While it is a touchy and emotional subject for some in this country, it is an important one. Especially since there is a relatively good chance that in the wake of any actions taken against the Affordable Care Act, much of the system that existed to provide women and families with needs to stay clean or without child may be harder to come by for low income