Stage Six

After reading fellow classmate Shay's post about Funding for Planned Parenthood, I decided to 
research the benefits and detriments for reasons on why we should defund Planned Parenthood instead. Planned Parenthood is reported to be the largest U.S. provider of reproductive health services, including cancer screening, HIV screening and counseling, contraception, and abortion. After researching, I've decided to lean towards defunding for Planned Parenthood because they're not what everyone is expecting them to be. According to LifeSiteNews, Planned Parenthood facilities in Texas are closing shop due to serious sterilization issues,which has been a problem in many facilities across the country. "In San Antonio, an annual inspection report showed that the Planned Parenthood facility had serious sterilization issues. They weren’t separating clean and dirty instruments. They weren’t testing their autoclave machine to ensure that it was still working. Lots of problems". It goes on about another city in Texas, Beaumont, "There was an abortion clinic in Beaumont with the same issues. They have also been cited for untrained staff, dirty equipment, expired medications given to patients…the list goes on and on. So, instead of fixing these problems, Planned Parenthood has chosen to close these facilities". Why continue to fund Planned Parenthood if they're not bending over backwards to implement these changes to facilities if they're really concerned about the health and safety of women? Also, why fund a program that is America's largest abortion provider? According to sba-list, Planned Parenthood is America's largest abortion provider, having performed a record 332,278 abortions in 2009. Data shows that since 1970, Planned Parenthood has performed at least 5.3 million abortions, nearly one out of four abortions are performed at Planned Parenthood. More taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood leads to more abortion and fewer adoption referrals. In 2009, that record breaking adoption number performed at Planned Parenthood (332,278) led to only 977 adoption referrals. This meaning with the 80 percent increase in taxpayer funding resulted in a 69 percent increase in the number of abortions and a 61 percent decrease in the number of adoption referrals. For more reasons to Defund Planned Parenthood now, you can click here.