Planned Parenthood receives only one-third of its funding from public sources and has 8 million activists, supporters and donors working for women’s health and safety, including those supporting its clinics in Youngstown and Cortland.
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The abortion videos have already prompted the head of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, to apologize for the “tone” of the recorded discussions. I also believe we must create a culture that values each human life, from the unborn, to the child living in an impoverished environment, to the elder facing health and end-of-life challenges.
Disclosure: Planned Parenthood was a corporate sponsor of The Texas Tribune in 2011. “Governor Bentley should therefore be commended for ending the use of state taxpayer dollars for such barbarism”. They understand the importance of rational public health policy, and I am grateful that they are willing to stand with Planned Parenthood. But he came under fire today when the conservative Shark Tank website reported that in 2011, when Jolly was a federal lobbyist, he contributed $2,166 to former Democratic Rep. Allyson Schwartz of Pennsylvania, who ran a Planned Parenthood clinic before her stint in Congress.
Arranged Parenthood, which does not do premature births in Kentucky, says it encourages exchange of fetal parts for medicinal examination, and any expenses it charges are to take care of its expenses of taking care of and delivery. The decision will remove $639,000 in state funding of the organization.
Republican senators looking to pick up votes by defunding Planned Parenthood might want to try a different strategy-at least according to a poll released Monday.
Abortion rights supporters said the Gosnell case was about a rogue abortionist who was doing obviously illegal acts, but the shock of the abortions was the overriding impression.
Contraceptive services are some of the most utilized services provided by Title X funding and by Planned Parenthood.
“There are countless community health centers, rural clinics and other women’s health organizations that need to be fully funded”, Bush said. What Alabamians need is more access to health care, not less.
Last week, the U.S. Senate attempted to defund Planned Parenthood, instead of focusing on areas we can agree on to prevent unplanned pregnancies.
Only 3 percent of all Planned Parenthood services are abortion-related.
The latest hurtful volleys aimed at the organization were lobbed last month by the The Center for Medical Progress, an anti-abortion group. Its footage appears to show Planned Parenthood’s senior director of medical research, Deborah Nucatola, explaining how to abort a fetus in order to preserve its organs for medical research. The bishops of Colorado, as well as Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, have called for penance and prayer in response to the content of the videos.
By the early 1900s, as Sanger and other women began demanding greater access to contraception, they were hit by another backlash. Either way, our society is poorer.
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Universal: That political responsibility may be lived at all levels as a high form of charity.
