Argumentative Essay On Planned Parenthood

On top of top of this, the same people who consistently keep affordable healthcare out of reach also consistently try to defund Planned parenthood for their role in providing abortions, or at least that is the reason they give. Unsurprisingly, abortion makes up a miniscule part of what Planned Parenthood does, a mere three percent in fact. However, conservative traditionalists need a red herring to disguise their desire to oppress women, even when it’s happening subconsciously. Even if one considers the woes of the vagina to be outside the realm of normal healthcare, it can be argued that women are ignored for “regular” ailments too. An article in Boston University’s BU Today2 discusses the way medical research in particular often ignores women.
These medical disparities even start before the drugs even get to trial, “gender discrimination isn’t only a problem in clinics, it’s an issue in petri dishes.”3 Scientists have recently discovered that all human cells have different characteristic based on sex. When drugs are in the early stage of petri dish trials, they are tested on samples that are classified based on cancer type, with no consideration of the cell differentiation caused by sex in particular. This bias against women is even seen face to face in ERs and doctors offices across the United States as women face a significantly more difficult process to get their pain and illness taken seriously. Men are often easily given narcotic level pain medication when describing any pain above a seven or an eight on a ten point scale, but a women could scream about chronic nine or ten level pain and be prescribed a high dosage of Ibuprofen, as if she couldn’t have gotten that at