Abortion: The Benefits Of Planned Parenthood

Once again, America finds itself facing a controversial issue. From here, the land of the free to erupt into another state of ceaseless internal conflict. Planned Parenthood is an organization that provides beneficial sexual health services to Americans, but in turn, it carries out abortion services, which is popularly opposed. Many want to cut federal funding and donations from Planned Parenthood because these citizens believe abortion is all the organization embodies. Planned Parenthood should not be cut from funding, because it is more than an abortion clinic; it is an organization that supplies contraception, provides testing to STD’s, administers yearly women’s health check-ups, teaches sex education, and provides assuring counseling to
She opened her first birth-control clinic in 1916 in Brooklyn, New York. The chain continued to thrive, and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America was born. Planned Parenthood has grown from the simple birth control clinic in several ways “PPFA works in a number of ways to achieve its mission of providing information and services to those who are facing reproductive choices. PPFA clinics provide the following services: abortion or abortion referrals, family planning, birth control, pregnancy testing and counseling, adoption referrals, prenatal care, sex education, voluntary sterilization, HIV testing, testing for sexually transmitted diseases, and gynecological care”. Planned Parenthood may complete abortion, but it is not paid for by donations or US funding “it is not a mystery that Planned Parenthood pays for abortions. Thus, if another organization is truly opposed to abortions, they should simply not make a contribution in the first place” (Carone 3). Although many people today are pro-life, there are a lot of pro-choice followers to be found as well. So, Planned Parenthood would be able to survive without certain donors inputting money. But, cutting all funding would expunge the program completely. Cutting all funding will cause millions to be bereft from PPFA’s services. Cutting all funding would be America making a huge
The statistics of the services PPFA provides proves this even more, “Patient care provided by Planned Parenthood affiliate health centers follows as: 32% Contraception, 41% STD/STI treatments, 12% Cancer screenings and preventions, 11% other women’s health services, 3% Abortion, and 1% other services.” (Zott 1). This proves that Planned Parenthood is comprised of way more than abortion, 97% more to be exact. Many have Planned Parenthood’s values misconstrued, and a one sided story is what is infuriating the public “for some people, Planned Parenthood has come to symbolize abortion, which it has provided since 1970. But in all the rhetoric, facts have sometimes gone missing. For instance, Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona declared last year on the floor of the Senate that abortion accounts for "well over 90 percent" of what Planned Parenthood does. The actual figure is 3 percent. If a future Congress and White House were to do so [end PPFA], however, it would drive women once again into the back alleys, without necessarily decreasing the number of abortions” (Zott 1). Although PPFA is associated with abortion that does not mean ridding it will solve the abortion problem. Potentially, it could make the problem worse, by forcing women to once again complete illegal abortions on