Blog - House Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood

The cuts would eliminate funding for birth control, cancer screenings, and HIV testing, among other things.

According to Tracey Brooks, president of Family Planning Advocates of New York State, federal funding does not go to support Planned Parenthood’s abortion services.

Get your facts straight.

If she had 5 abortions, woudln’t that cause some health problems? Regardless, that’s exactly why I don’t want federal funds covering elective abortions. Sure, it’s only a minority that have multiple abortions because they could, but if denying the minority means denying the majority who only have 1 or 2 elective abortions throughout their life, then that’s the cost in my opinion.

*Elective abortions in this regard ARE NOT abortions that are paid for under the Hyde Amendment.

The same thing can be said about employees from any organization. Bad people are everywhere, that doesn’t mean that the organization that they work for voluntarily supports them.

1) Sleep “around”? Maybe she’s only sleeping with “one” person, but doesn’t want to have children. Are opposed to recreational sex?
2)“Murder mill”? Planned Parenthood spends 3% of it’s budget on abortion. That hardly makes a “mill” for abortion.
3)Are you a vegan? Because if you aren’t, that would make you’re anti-abortion stance hypocritical.
4)By your logic no one’s tax dollars should pay for anyone’s self-induced health problems? Got the flu? Well, maybe you should’ve washed your hands more often? Got high cholestreol? Well, maybe you shouldn’t have eaten so much fatty foods? Got, diabetes? Maybe, you shouldn’t have eaten so much carbs.

if nothing is free yet condoms are offered with no out of pocket direct expense to those who wish to receive them, why should my taxes be used to fund abortions of those who chose not to take the proper precautions. while getting volunteer hours as a pre med student, i accepted and position at a PP during my time there more than once, i received a file on a few young women who were there for another abortion. one had even been there 5x in only 2 years. even as a true conservative i believe that abortion does have its place in our society. however, the availability of these services are abundant and are unfortunately being used as the easy solution instead of condoms or birth control or abstinence. which is completely wrong.

and many places provide free condoms including most major universities in which the condoms are actually payed for by the students health fee that is included in their tuition

Totally agree, Bill/writ of attainder is definitely a bad thing. That’s why I have no stance on this position, I’m not totally convinced it is a bill of attainder and I’m not convinced it’s not.

I mean, yes, I can see how it can be interpreted as such, but it doesn’t do 1 thing that it must do for it to be a Bill of Attainder: The amendment doesn’t declare them guilty of a crime. All it literally says is: “None of the funds made available by this Act may be made available for any purpose to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. or any of the following affiliates of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.” and then it goes on to detail the affiliates. So, since it doesn’t qualify completely as a Bill/writ of Attainder, at least not by the definition of such, then I don’t think it is, but I can see how it is interpreted as such. (BTW, the quote was taken from the Congressional Record)

I should clarify then:
No federal money has gone to abortions that are non-emergency(so far haven’t been any cases going against it) or rape or incest

but you can not punish for for things not proven guilty, this is why bill of attainder exists when it comes to passing laws against someone.

dude $2,400 is alot… I don’t even have that much period let alone to donate.

and most people who use or have used PP are low income so they don’t have 2,400 to donate either.

and most poltics are funded by insanely rich people to get certainly things passed to help their businesses, the average person who are affected by PP are not insanely rich.

Yeah, pretty much. And the Hyde Amendment still allows for abortions to be paid out for rape, incest, or “as certified by a doctor” a life-saving procedure. So, everyone’s going to get reduced health care (state exchanges), which will pretty much make PP obsolete. BUT, if people still wanted PP around, it wouldn’t be too hard to get it to stay afloat.

not everyone can be bother to read the hundreds of pages of the archive of debates

4.) Since they are a 501©(3), it can die. I don’t care either way if it does or doesn’t, but nothing says a non-profit has to stay afloat. If it’s as important as everyone thinks, and as useful and efficient as everyone hopes, then I have full faith it will stay alive just like all the other 501’s in America who don’t use federal funds to do good works.

Why is planned parenthood still needed with the new health care bill that passed? Isn’t everybody going to get free health care anyway?

I am prochoice, i typed like a whole paragraph…

something about most who are against abortions like war basically, Geogre carlin said it best ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvF1Q3UidWM&t=22 ) “if you’re preborn, you’re fine. If you’re preschooled, you’re fucked” and “they want live babies to raise them to be dead soldiers”

so it goes:
-9months to birth : your awesome
birth to 18: drain on society
18 to whenever: you’re amazing, now how’s your aim?

and this was from pence with uncited information and citing only alleged cases. alleged =/= actually happen, it just means accused and last i checked, it was innocent until proven guilty which pence seems to he can judge guilt.

That doesn’t pay for the gas… and his car will be working for years afterwards. better than buying a new car later on though when it completely dies.

plus vagas is for entrainment, not health care like pap smears and cancer testing.

It’s like a college kid asking his uncle to pay for his trip to Vegas, via having his uncle pay for a new transmission for his broken car, He asks his uncle for money to fix his car rather then canceling his trip so in turn his uncle paid for the vacation but it looks like he paid to fix his nephews car.