Planned Parenthood Pros And Cons

When people think of reproductive health care centers their mind automatically jumps to the name Planned Parenthood. Since its founding in 1916 by Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood has amounted to a number of people rallying both for and against them. The fight for Planned Parenthood has never completely been resolved, and even now the issue of federally- funding Planned Parenthood is an issue discussed at large when deciding who to elect to represent our country for the next four to eight years. People advocating for the funding of Planned Parenthood by the federal government are doing something that is rightfully so. It should not be an issue whether or not Planned Parenthood should be funded or not. The question that asks whether it should
be funded by the government or not is one made through ignorance. If people were properly educated on all of the things that Planned Parenthood does not just for people in our country, but all throughout the world, this would never have been a debate in the first place. The matter of fact is this: Planned Parenthood is a necessary organization and it should continue receiving funds from the federal government. One of the main reasons that it is vital that Planned Parenthood continues being funded by the government is that Planned Parenthood is one of the nation's leading providers of health care to women all across the globe.
Planned Parenthood not only provides healthcare to women who have health care available outside of just Planned Parenthood, but it provides healthcare to millions of women all across the country, and all across the world, who have no other place that they can receive health care. It is simply a matter of fact that if Planned Parenthood centers stopped receiving compensation and were forced to shut down that thousands, perhaps millions,of people would lose the only place that they can always rely on to help keep them healthy. A quote from “The Impact of Defunding Planned Parenthood” states that, “If extreme politicians shut down Planned Parenthood, 2.5 million patients would lose access to care. Here’s the breakdown: Approximately 60% of Planned Parenthood’s patients access health care at its centers through publicly funded programs like Medicaid or Title X. Legislation that ‘defunds’ Planned Parenthood immediately blocks those people from accessing care at Planned Parenthood health centers.” Forcing Planned Parenthood centers to shut down would leave millions of people who do not have any other access to health care helpless and
hopeless. When people who aren’t properly educated about what would happen if Planned Parenthood were to stop receiving funds, they often turn to ask the question: couldn’t these people just find another place to receive health care?
The simple answer here is, blatantly, no, they can not. Even if other reproductive health centers were to aid in helping pick up the patients that came from Planned Parenthood being defunded, no reproductive health care center would be able to make up for the loss that defunding Planned Parenthood would make. One quote from Planned Parenthood states that,”80 percent of our patients receive services to prevent unintended pregnancy.Planned Parenthood services help prevent approximately 579,000 unintended pregnancies in a single year.Planned Parenthood provides more than 270,000 Pap tests and more than 360,000 breast exams in a single year, critical services in detecting cancer.Planned Parenthood provides more than 4.2 million tests and treatments for sexually transmitted infections, including more than 650,000 HIV tests.Planned Parenthood affiliates provide educational programs and outreach to 1.5 million young people and adults in a single
year.” With these specific statistics it is shown that the impact of defunding Planned Parenthood would be so large that no reproductive health care centers besides Planned Parenthood would be able to sustain this type of mass health care. Additionally, Planned Parenthood provides important services that, if they stopped being allowed to continue, would put the lives of many people at risk. One quote from the article “The Impact of Defunding Planned Parenthood” reveals, “In Texas, one study found that pregnancy-related deaths doubled after the state stopped reimbursing Planned Parenthood and imposed stringent funding cuts for women’s health - and 54% fewer patients in the state received care. In Wisconsin, fewer women could access lifesaving cancer screenings following the closure of Planned Parenthood health centers.” By denying women and men across the globe access to health care that they deserve, people in opposition of Planned Parenthood are promoting and funding an increase in the number of deaths regarding women and children who do not get access to the care that they desperately need to survive. They are also promoting the idea that only certain human beings should be allowed the “privilege” of getting tested and treated for potentially life threatening and life altering illnesses and diseases. This bias in the government goes against everything that is taught and preached all throughout the world about how certain individuals are no better than other individuals just because of their economic standing, their race, or their gender. This bias thinking is exactly why it is absolutely necessary that Planned Parenthood remain open and remain being funded, because without it, millions of women and men everywhere will suffer the consequences.