Do you know what it is like to be a young female living off of her parent's insurance? It's nice to know that there is an organization that will be there for me if anything happens to that lifeline that I cling so desperately too.
Those that are against federally funding Planned Parenthood, stand in opposition because of the fact that they perform abortions. But what they have failed to acknowledge is that no federal monies go towards funding abortions. It all goes towards providing doctor's appointments, STD/STI testing, cancer screenings (like pap smears and mammograms), health education programs, and providing birth control and condoms. If it is abortions that make you stand against then suck on this statistic for a second—last year PPH averted more than 1.2 million pregnancies, more than half of those unwanted pregnancies would have ended in abortion.
When we provided women with birth control, who otherwise would not have access to it. We cut down the number of unwanted pregnancies that occur. When we cut down unwanted pregnancies, not only do we save the state millions of dollars in health care and welfare, but we also drastically decrease the amount of abortions that happen.
All that happens when we cut funding towards PPH is that we eliminate access for proper women's health treatment for millions on women across the US.
For more information: http://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/
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