Does defunding Planned Parenthood really threaten women's health?

[Michie]

Beneath the hype, what really would happen should federal funding was pulled from PP?

Does defunding Planned Parenthood really threaten women's health?

 

[blackribbon]

The simple answer is "no". Most of the services offered by Planned Parenthood are also offered by county services at low to no cost. Planned Parenthood doesn't offer mammograms or prenatal care so tell me that they really care about "women's health"... I don't consider a referral the same as care.

 

[Winken]

Beneath the hype, what really would happen should federal funding was pulled from PP?

Does defunding Planned Parenthood really threaten women's health?

NO !!!

 

[Even So]

It's all a scare tactic by the left. Most of their crud is. Blackribbon is spot on. The truth is George Soros himself can fund it, but there is plenty of money on the let to advance their agenda. If it is defunded, they will cry we are insensitive to women. But that s when we need as many Christian women's voices as possible to speak out. I asked a nurse what she felt, and i was shocked she said a women should not be told to do what she wants with her body. Ouch. No regard for life and should not be a nurse. IMO. What do you think, Michie?

 

[blackribbon]

It's all a scare tactic by the left. Most of their crud is. Blackribbon is spot on. The truth is George Soros himself can fund it, but there is plenty of money on the let to advance their agenda. If it is defunded, they will cry we are insensitive to women. But that s when we need as many Christian women's voices as possible to speak out. I asked a nurse what she felt, and i was shocked she said a women should not be told to do what she wants with her body. Ouch. No regard for life and should not be a nurse. IMO. What do you think, Michie?

Ask that same nurse if a patient should be allowed to eat what they want even if they are diabetic, have congestive heart failure, or end stage renal failure with anuria (can't pee at all)...nobody should tell that person what to do with their body either?

Anyway, eliminate Planned Parenthood and woman's right to decide what to do with their body isn't affected...just the supplier of some of those services. Again, most county health services offer the same services as well as private doctors. This isn't really an abortion debate but rather a debate on spending public money to support a private organization..

 

[MikeK]

Yes, defunding PP will result in less access to healthcare for women. Moving those funds into another, less controversial organisation that provides healthcare to women will prevent that from happening. PP will still be around on some level because their supporters will continue to fund them. Stopping taxpayer funding of PP is the right thing to do. It won't markedly reduce the number of abortions performed in the USA and its mostly a feel good measure to placate pro-life voters and make them believe that their voices are being heard, but it's still the right thing to do.

 

[pdudgeon]

Yes, defunding PP will result in less access to healthcare for women. Moving those funds into another, less controversial organisation that provides healthcare to women will prevent that from happening. PP will still be around on some level because their supporters will continue to fund them. Stopping taxpayer funding of PP is the right thing to do. It won't markedly reduce the number of abortions performed in the USA and its mostly a feel good measure to placate pro-life voters and make them believe that their voices are being heard, but it's still the right thing to do.

if the private sector funds PP, how will that result in less access to healthcare for women?

 

[MoonlessNight]

if the private sector funds PP, how will that result in less access to healthcare for women?

Because they'll cut absolutely any other service before they even consider reducing the number of abortions they perform.

Of course, that shows why they shouldn't be awarded funding in the first place.

 

[Fantine]

Ain't it always the case? Matt Hadro, a male blogger with 45 Facebook followers, presumes to make a decision as to whether defunding Planned Parenthood will hurt the healthcare of 150 million women.

The answer is that there are many women out there who are saying it will--bet he hasn't talked to any of them.

In the meanwhile Medicare and other federally funded insurance plans are giving Viagra away like candy...but maybe that's OK.

After all, if older men use Viagra to toy with the affections of fertile younger women who use birth control, they'll be "having their cake and eating it, too." If younger women don't have access to birth control, they will be paying for that cake by hook or by crook.

Many members of Congress look like they're "Viagra age..." Let's see them do the right thing--if they defund Planned Parenthood, let them defund free Viagra, too, to protect younger women from the advances of older men.

 

[MoonlessNight]

Ain't it always the case? Matt Hadro, a male blogger with 45 Facebook followers, presumes to make a decision as to whether defunding Planned Parenthood will hurt the healthcare of 150 million women.

The answer is that there are many women out there who are saying it will--bet he hasn't talked to any of them.

In the meanwhile Medicare and other federally funded insurance plans are giving Viagra away like candy...but maybe that's OK.

After all, if older men use Viagra to toy with the affections of fertile younger women who use birth control, they'll be "having their cake and eating it, too." If younger women don't have access to birth control, they will be paying for that cake by hook or by crook.

Many members of Congress look like they're "Viagra age..." Let's see them do the right thing--if they defund Planned Parenthood, let them defund free Viagra, too, to protect younger women from the advances of older men.

Viagra is a weird thing to have an obsession about.

 

[Tallguy88]

Ain't it always the case? Matt Hadro, a male blogger with 45 Facebook followers, presumes to make a decision as to whether defunding Planned Parenthood will hurt the healthcare of 150 million women.

The answer is that there are many women out there who are saying it will--bet he hasn't talked to any of them.

In the meanwhile Medicare and other federally funded insurance plans are giving Viagra away like candy...but maybe that's OK.

After all, if older men use Viagra to toy with the affections of fertile younger women who use birth control, they'll be "having their cake and eating it, too." If younger women don't have access to birth control, they will be paying for that cake by hook or by crook.

Many members of Congress look like they're "Viagra age..." Let's see them do the right thing--if they defund Planned Parenthood, let them defund free Viagra, too, to protect younger women from the advances of older men.

I don't think Medicare covers Viagra.

 

[MikeK]

I don't think Medicare covers Viagra.

I don't believe it does either, and discussion of Viagra here at all serves no purpose but to draw attention from a topic that some find inconvenient.

 

[MikeK]

if the private sector funds PP, how will that result in less access to healthcare for women?

PP is partially funded through the private sector today. It seems unlikely that private sector funding will increase for the long term to a level that fully compensates for whatever public money they lose.

 

[blackribbon]

Wouldn't Viagra help older married women too? Don't they deserve to have satisfactory sexual relationships with their older husbands?

I would hope that women of fertility ages are spending more time with men of their own age who are less likely to need Viagra.

Honestly, since Planned Parenthood also does male sexual health care at some centers, I highly suspect they offer prescriptions for Viagra too.

 

[Wolfe]

No, pretty much every healthcare service provided by planned parenthood, are provided in normal hospitals, under the same insurance/medicaid/medicare/whatever.

Planned parenthood only exist to kill babies, plain n simple.

 

[Fantine]

I have no objection to Viagra if people pay for it. My own husband, who had prostate cancer, even got it from the VA.

And I don't think it's irrelevant. If men had babies the issue of defunding Planned Parenthood wouldn't even be brought up.

 

[AvilaSurfer]

If men had babies, then murdering babies would be ok? Um huh?

 

[blackribbon]

PP has outlived its purpose. I doubt that even most abortions are done at PP facilities. It definitely shouldn't be federally funded.