Arguement For Planned Parenthood

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Planned Parenthood should remain funded because it provides people with essential disease screening and prevention like breast exams and STD testing, educates youth, gives women access to contraception, and gives women more choices when it comes to unintended or unwanted pregnancies. People against the non-profit like to focus on abortions when discussing Planned Parenthood, but their most used service is disease screening and prevention. In Planned Parenthood’s 2014-2015 annual report, it states that 52% of services that they provide include exams for breast and cervical cancer and STD testing; most popular of which are tests for HPV and HIV (

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