Planned Parenthood Funding Comes Up For Vote

Planned Parenthood in North Carolina doesn’t transfer fetal tissue from any of its clinics, Sarah Eldred, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, said by email.

The political fight to defund Planned Parenthood could shut down the federal government.

The “defund Planned Parenthood” movement has a standard response to the question of where women would go if their local clinic closed: somewhere else. The de-funding of Planned Parenthood also makes women more vulnerable to emotional trauma, making them emotionally and mentally unsound because of a possible assault or abuse that led them to this situation.

The Planned Parenthood scandal: it’s a politically-charged, divisive topic. It’s the remaining, subsidized, 97 percent that are vital: contraceptives, cancer and health exams, treatments for sexually transmitted infections, and sex education.

A group from Texas displays flags during a rally on the Mall for the March for Life anti-abortion demonstration. You can treasure this work as publicly valuable even while acknowledging that evidence for the effectiveness of its family planning efforts are mixed. The potential fraud includes the illegal practice of billing and being reimbursed by Title XIX agencies for medications and/or services provided in connection with an abortion. Other liberals cringed at the staffer’s desensitized insouciance – journalist Eleanor Clift called it “disturbing” – but Pollitt’s ideology brooks no qualms about abortion, a view she fleshed out in her book: Abortion is a basic human right, excuses and discomfort be damned. “It should be freely chosen, not imposed upon woman”. “That is why it is based in churches with explicitly limited roles and inferior status for women – not just the famously patriarchal Catholic Church but the Southern Baptists and other fundamentalist/evangelical Protestant denominations …”

Taking away that choice by cutting off funding to the institution is detrimental to society on so many levels because now women are giving birth to unwanted and unloved children who might have to live in household where their presence isn’t appreciated or enjoyed from the very beginning. Fixating on abortion while advocating cuts in necessary government aid to the needy is not pro-life. American taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize the nation’s largest provider of abortions.

“I misspoke”, the former governor of Florida said later. “So if you can’t take off work to drive 100 miles each way, then you’re not going to go, because it’s not worth it. When access to care is such an issue, that could be a completely rational decision for even a forward-looking person”.

Such legislative legwork, open to court challenges, can be lengthy and not always successful; welcome to democracy. Besides family planning services, Planned Parenthood offers everything from breast exams to screening for sexually transmitted infections. A woman knows what is best for her, and if a woman wants further counseling and professional advice, that is why there are resources like Planned Parenthood, who assist in exploring options.

“Eliminating Planned Parenthood from our state’s comprehensive network of care would put untenable stress on the remaining providers”, Andie Martinez Patterson, the group’s director of government affairs, wrote.