A Study On Planned Parenthood

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Planned Parenthood all started back in 1916 when Margaret Sanger and her sister opened up their first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York. Planned Parenthood became one of the most popular women’s health clinic in the nation. This clinic gives services on the morning-after pill, birth control, STI testing, cancer screening, pregnancy testing, and abortion. Although these services provide tremendous help to hundreds of thousands of women, there has been a conflict with the issue of abortion treatments. Abortion at Planned Parenthood only serves as three percent of what it offers, but a bill is being issued to block its funds, which will result in insufficient ways and provide women and men without easy access to health care. There is many different views and debates on this issue among all of the news sources and how the participants take on the issue.
Planned Parenthood President, Cecile Richards, was being questioned about the situation to clear up some of the misleading materials. With the discussion between Representative Diane Black (a nurse who authored the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015) and Cecile Richards, Black kept asking about the abortion services. Black stated that the bill actually increases public health funding and redirects those federal dollars to clinics that offer more preventative health care. Richards continued to say that Planned Parenthood gives abortion services and it is legal in America, which is a health care service for women.
According to the House of Representatives, on September 18, 2015, a bill was passed to block fundings towards Planned Parenthood with votes of 241-187. Upon the passing of the bill, there was a decrease to women’s health care and made them feel like they could not...

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...gress are forcing a vote on the most dangerous legislative assault on women’s health and Planned Parenthood in our 95-year history. This bill would eliminate all federal funding for Planned Parenthood health centers - including funding for birth control, cancer screenings, HIV testing, and more. The Consequences of this bill are clear - and they would be devastating. More women would have unintended pregnancies. Cancer would develop, undiagnosed, in countless women. There is no doubt: cutting off millions of women from care they have no other way to afford places them at risk of sickness and death (The American Independent Institute).” With that being said, blocking their funds would not be a great idea for anyone.Planned Parenthood is a well organized non-profit organization and should still be getting their funds to help women all over the United States of America.

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