Do you know what’s really unpleasant, even dangerous? Sexually transmitted diseases and infections, breast cancer, urinary tract infections, being pregnant with a child that you are either unable to care for or the birth of this child would be a risk to your/their health
Do you know what’s really unpleasant, even dangerous? Sexually transmitted diseases and infections, breast cancer, urinary tract infections, being pregnant with a child that you are either unable to care for or the birth of this child would be a risk to your/their health, and anything odd going on with your cervix. It’s a good thing Planned Parenthood helps in preventing all of these things, and more.
However, it’s hard to provide affordable health care when you are being attacked, protested and hated.
Yes, there has recently been another shooting at a Planned Parenthood, this one in Colorado. Three were killed: two civilians and a police officer. This is not the first time that a Planned Parenthood has been attacked. Frankly, this is infuriating.
Let me make this clear to everyone who is pro-life: No one likes abortions. Being pro-choice does not mean that you are saying “Sweet! Abortion!” Being pro-choice means that you acknowledge that there are times where it is a better choice than birthing a baby when either its health and/or the mother’s health will be at risk, or when a woman was raped and did not have a choice of whether or not she wanted to be pregnant.
Let me make this clear to everyone who is anti-Planned Parenthood: You are trying to dismantle an organization whose goal is to provide affordable health care and sex education to men, women and adolescents.
Don’t believe me?
In a pie chart of what services Planned Parenthood provides, 41% is STI/STD testing and treatment, 34% contraception, 11% other women’s health services, 10% cancer screening and prevention, 3% abortion and 1% other stories. Another source states that abortions make up 12%, “assuming no person received more than one abortion.”
Yes, a whopping 3 -12%.
To try to bring Planned Parenthood down would be harmful for communities, not helpful. You are not saving fetuses, you are just risking the lives of already living people. Also, let’s talk about the irony of shooting or bombing a Planned Parenthood. In order to save (unborn) lives, you are murdering people.
I really, really hope that all of you see how that isn’t exactly productive.
But I’m going to try to delve into the mind of someone who wants to attack a clinic. If we refer to the above statistic of the services Planned Parenthood offers, then wouldn’t that mean that you’re less likely killing people who seek to get an abortion, but instead people who are just seeking healthcare? How dare they try to see if they are at risk of having cancer, UTI, STI or STD! How dare they try to get a form of birth control!
Every ounce of my sarcasm was intended in that last statement.
Planned Parenthood is not against you. Rather, they are striving to help you by providing affordable healthcare. We are focusing too much on one controversial tree and not making an effort to even glance at the forest. The bigger picture of Planned Parenthood is not abortion, abortion is only a small image within everything we’re shown.
There’s a woman in Portland who broke up a Planned Parenthood protest by shouting “Yeast infection!” She brought attention to something that’s actually a service more commonly provided rather than one that’s not. What she did was simple, yet incredibly effective, that has brought attention to a matter that needs to be discussed.
A health clinic is not the problem. Throwing my pro-choice views aside, it’s still clear that we should not be going against an organization that is desperately needed.
The argument of whether or not abortion is moral should not fall heavily onto Planned Parenthood. It’s time that both sides of this argument realize that Planned Parenthood has a very small role to play the topic of abortion.
–Riley Knouse
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“Being pro-choice means that you acknowledge that there are times where it is a better choice than birthing a baby when either its health and/or the mother’s health will be at risk, or when a woman was raped and did not have a choice of whether or not she wanted to be pregnant.”
So after acknowledging that what is inside the mother’s womb is a baby, you proceed to say that it can be “better choice” to deny that baby life because its health is at risk or the mother did not choose to be pregnant. Which is better; a baby’s health being at risk or its life being at risk? In regards to rape, why is that an excuse to inflict capital punishment on what you have acknowledged is a baby because of the crimes of its father? Is the baby somehow guilty by association for what its father has done? Why are you willing to do to the baby what society refuses to do to the rapist?
“Yes, a whopping 3 -12%”
Then if all Planned Parenthood did was eliminate 3-12% of its services, the controversy surrounding them would be eliminated. How many business would gladly change such a small percentage of their services if it meant a vast improvement to their public image?
What about the baby’s right to life? PP is an abortion mill. Please research more facts about this. I do not wish that one penny from my tax to go to KILLING a baby. It is not a matter of choice, but a matter of Life and Death. They can be put for adoption, there are so many couples who desperately wish to become parents and they can’t naturally! PP should encourage ADOPTION ideas. PP should show every woman who walks into their killing-mill a video of this procedure: the little body that has life in it is being cut with the scissors, whether it’s the head or a leg caught in those scissors…and then vacuumed in a sink. The women are usually fully-anesthetized and they don’t really understand or process the procedure. They just walk away to continue their lives…that new life is gone. Dear, I am so, so sorry you that you grow up in this immoral society that replaces real human values with abortion, shacking-up, and slapping men across their face. So so sad.