Planned Parenthood And The Abortion Debate

The “Planned Parenthood Federation of America” is a non profit organization, funded by the Federal Government, in which it provides reproductive/maternal health services among the United States as well as internationally, since 1952. In recent news developments, there have been rumors that Planned Parenthood practices “inhumane” procedures when aborting an unborn baby to harvest their organs and that a law should be passed to stop this. The supporters for Planned Parenthood claim that these claims are unfounded and believe that Planned Parenthood is a wonderful association that helps women and men all around the world. This issue has caused a series of debates that have been going on for years, but Planned Parenthood still lives on.

Planned Parenthood is a controversial topic sweeping the nation of America with political and moral issues. Every day one could come across a new article on it, stubble upon a news article in their local paper or even on their local news station. Planned Parenthood directly provides reproductive health services, is involved in teach young students about sexual education, contributes to research in reproductive technology, and interacts with legal and political efforts aimed at protecting and developing reproductive rights.

“I will defend Planned Parenthood. I will defend Roe v. Wade and I will defend women's rights to make their own healthcare decisions.” -Hillary Clinton

Leaked videos from Planned Parenthood have caused frenzy among Americans and there have been debates on whether or not to continue funding this organization. These videos reveal Planned Parenthood officials discussing selling fetal tissue for profit. While they are proved to be edited videos, many people are still wary about the whole situation. Joining along with this frenzy is Ruth Marcus, whose article, Defunding Planned Parenthood would actually increase abortions, argues why Planned Parenthood should still be funded. Marcus provides substantial evidence including pathos and logos to support her claim; however, it is her ethos that is questionable. With numerous fallacies plaguing her argument, her ethos is damaged, thus affecting the argument’s

Another issue that could lead to a civil rights movement is with our new President Donald Trump and where he stands on abortion and the funding of Planned Parenthood. This brings up controversy because on the more right side, people’s argument is that you are essentially ending a human life with getting an abortion. Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider and has more than 7 million pre-born babies that have died as a result of the mothers visiting. The argument for the left is that Planned Parenthood is the country’s leading provider of reproductive health care. If it stops receiving federal funding it could have millions of women, men, and young people from live-saving preventive care: cancer screenings, breast exams,

For almost a century one company has risen to a height where they felt they had all authority. A company that receives over half a billion dollars each and every year in government funding. A company that instead of thanking the American People and understanding the value of each American life, disrespects it through criminal acts of which they have not been punished. The question is: Why does a government continue to fund a criminal? If we fund Planned Parenthood, why do we not fund murders with guns? Why do we not give ISIS what THEY want? We must call for immediate action against Planned Parenthood and DEFUND criminals.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris sent agents to raid the home of anti-abortion activist who was behind the undercover videos allegedly showing the sale of fetal tissues by Planned Parenthood.

November will be approaching soon and will be time to elect our next President. Bernie Sanders is a seventy-four-year-old male running for the Democratic party. Hillary Clinton is the wife of Ex-President Bill Clinton and also running for the Democratic party. Donald Trump is a businessman running for the Republican nomination to be the President of 2016. Ted Cruz is a senator from Texas and a candidate for the Republican nomination. Jill Stein is a physician and activist who is currently running for the Green Party nomination.

Mike Huckabee, an American politician, Christian minister, and a former Governor of Arkansas. Huckabee speculates in his article “The battle goes beyond Planned Parenthood” that America should end abortion. Although Huckabee argues his points that abortion is taking money out of are paychecks and harvesting babies’ organs, he weakens his argument by using insufficient and unrepresentative samples. As a result, support needed to make this a strong argumentative writing.

Planned parenthood was established in 1916 in Brownsville, Brooklyn by Sanger, Byrne, and Mindell; their goal was to educate individuals and give them the necessary care that they would need. By doing so they gave millions of people a second chance to live and continue to gather opportunities because they allowed them to have control over their lives. They fought to give women the right to contraception, starting off with the Griswold v. Connecticut that allowed married women to utilize birth control. Statistics show that one out of four married women under the age 45 decided to use birth control. Planned Parenthood did not stop there, they eventually in 1972 Eisenstaedt v. Baird made it so unmarried women are a loud contraception (Planned Parenthood Is 100 Years Strong).

Pro Life was against the partnership of Komen with Planned Parenthood mainly due to its abortion services. However in 2011 Komen defended her partnership with the Planned Parenthood by stating that it was the best option for treatment for the poor, minor and many uninsured women. Also there are statements that assured that the funding from the Komen to the Planned Parenthood was exclusively used for the breast cancer program. But due to extreme pressure the Komen was influenced to act in the favor of the prolife and finally posted a statement on its website on November 30, 2011 stating that it would no longer fund the embryonic stem cell research centers. In order to cope with the crisis situation Komen hired Ogilvy crisis management public

January 21, 2017 the Women’s March took place worldwide to fight for civil rights, but mainly women’s rights. The women in the march were fighting for funding for Planned Parenthood to stay and fighting against the Trump’s Administration idea of defunding it. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was a strong advocate for women’s rights fighting for women’s choice of pregnancies and access to birth control in 1916 because it was frowned about in society. Planned Parenthood should be defunded because their clinics are unsafe, takes taxpayers money who do not support abortion, and uses other resources funded by government money.

Issues have occurred with anti-abortion activists as a result of the choices made by planned parenthood branches across the country. There is nothing unique about planned parenthood and that is why the committee believes that it can be replaced. They have no problem shutting down planned parenthood and placing/instilling abortion clinics into health centers, should they chose to keep abortions legal.

Opposers though, could argue that they also have the liberty to try and express their beliefs and influences, and not being able to do so inflicts their freedom of speech. Regarding the case of abortion again, there have been several instances where pro-life advocates have had their life threatened due to their beliefs and freedom of speech. One occurrence took place in North Carolina, where a 23 year old woman tried to run over pro-life supporters who stood outside an abortion clinic praying for those who entered (Zagorski). Another instance involved a man getting arrested for advocating and praying near a Chicago clinic even though he did nothing that truly broke the law (Macedo) .Those against abortion or Planned Parenthood could argue

As the world is being overpopulated in the view of some people, there has been a chance that the on-going generation has made plans throughout their life that doesn not involve marriage, children, or even any types of dating/ love. However, humans being humans and as curious and desirous as they are, they are still wanting to behave as humans and using their right to procreate without an eternal purpose. There has been an issue involving the argument of abortion and planned parenthood, if those two topics concerning the population growth/ decay and the personal rights of people who have a choice to procreate using their bodies.