GOP Trying to Take Planned Parenthood Away From The Needy

Planned Parenthood is the leading sexual reproductive health care provider and advocate. Planned Parenthood has helped teenagers and adults make intelligent decisions in regards to pregnancy, health and family. They offer men, woman and teenagers affordable healthcare. More than ninety percent of the healthcare at Planned Parenthood is primary preventive care, which helps prevent unintended pregnancies, reduces the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and they offer cervical screens. Planned Parenthood is trying to keep our nation safe and protected. It even provides low income women and teenagers with free birth control as well as free condoms, so they can keep themselves protected. The GOP wants to take that away. The House voted to cut all of Planned Parenthood family planning as well as $317 million Title X budget, which would have paid for birth control, screening and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, sex education etc. Planned Parenthood is trying to keep our nation educated and make intelligent decisions but the government is trying to take that away.

It is disgusting that the government is trying to take away services that Planned Parenthood gives to low income families and single people. According to Politics Daily, about eighty percent of Planned Parenthood clients are twenty years old and older. About seventy five percent of the people who use the services of Planned Parenthood are at, or below, the poverty level. The Guttmacher Institute predicted that if the Title X Budget is cut, unplanned pregnancies and abortions would increase by one third. GOP is basically putting their religious beliefs on the entire nation, while the first amendment states, “Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion”. Both Planned Parenthood and and Title X Budget are needed to provide important health services to low income people. Why should Planned Parenthood be harmed for helping others stay healthy and be safe? While you can, I urge you to write to your senators and express your concerns regarding this issue. Most people claim that this bill won't pass in the Senate, as the majority of the members are democrats. We will have to wait and see if the Senate will pass this shameful bill.