Each year, Planned Parenthood performs over 320,000 abortions, 34 percent of the annual total. Planned Parenthood is an institution that has a very narrow focus of care, mostly being associated with catering to women’s needs.
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The Journal Gazette estimated that about 200 people attended the defunding rally February 11 outside Planned Parenthood’s Fort Wayne clinic, which does not provide abortion services. Based on that yardstick, he does not believe Planned Parenthood deserves to have its funding eliminated.
What can be demonstrated, however, is that Planned Parenthood vastly exaggerates its prenatal care services.
No matter what the commercial says, it’s abundantly clear that Planned Parenthood’s plans rarely involve parenthood. However, I know of several middle class, PhD. women who visited Planned Parenthood as a young adult for birth control purposes.
It turns out that Planned Parenthood is not interested in seeing you if you’re planning to become a parent.
Despite that-and a law barring federal funding of abortion-Planned Parenthood remains a target of conservatives in Congress.
Planned Parenthood supporters showed up in droves to counter-protest opponents last weekend.
With the number of people in the pro-abortion crowd we faced Saturday and their fervor, Planned Parenthood would have no problem collecting sufficient financial support from them for its deeds. Though they are much less common today, self-induced abortions are still utilized by women with few other choices, due to regulations that make abortion clinics inaccessible to women in many areas.
Advancing the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act (H.R. 7) through the House, effectively banning private insurance companies from covering comprehensive reproductive health services. Three percent of all their services are abortion services.
Attendee Bridget Smith added, “It’s really important to protect women’s health, to protect the people who can’t afford health care, to protect both those who want to have abortions and those who want to have a healthy baby”.
In addition, after an abortion patient was able to leave, the recovery room chairs in which they were seated were not cleaned before a new patient was seated in them. Planned Parenthood is cornering the market on abortion. The HHS rule, which came out in December, prohibited states from withholding Title X grant funding from a health provider for reasons other than their ability to provide family planning services.
“Americans want to end taxpayer funding of abortion – that includes stopping taxpayer funding for the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, and ensuring any Obamacare replacement is pro-life, and does not allow tax dollars or tax credits to pay for health care plans that include abortion”, said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List.
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Always looming are vows by congressional conservatives to withhold all public funds from Planned Parenthood, including Medicaid reimbursements for low-income patients, an effort championed by Vice President Mike Pence when he was an IN congressman IN the 2000s.
