Planned Parenthood vs. Right-Wing Conservatives Planned Parenthood is a non-profit, government funded organization that provides mostly women’s health services (abortion, STD screening, birth control). Recently, a heavily edited video was released by the Center for Medical Progress that provides alleged evidence of the non-profit Planned Parenthood receiving “compensation” for aborted fetal tissue. Obviously, this video brought up concerns and much controversy between those in support of and against Planned Parenthood. Conservatives in Congress now believe Planned Parenthood no longer deserves government funding; however, Planned Parenthood provides useful and sometimes life-saving services to men and women, therefore demonstrates a pressing
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Another tendency of these morally right republicans is to obscure the essential line between political and religious views. Most of them suffer from a case of tunnel vision- seeing only what they want to see. Thus creating a prevalent problem in their arguments against Planned Parenthood; they are incredibly and inappropriately biased therefore removing validity from most of their statements. Conservatives in congress, such as David Walberg (represenative of Michigan) made the claim, “No matter what party you belong to, we should all agree that taxpayer dollars should not be used for harvesting baby parts.” This statement while holding some truth, contorts the true purpose of tax dollars that are utilized to support Planned Parenthood. Taxes contributed to Planned Parenthood pay for women to be tested for cancer, STD’s, and most importantly receive affordable reproductive health care when necessary. Saying things like “taxpayer dollars” and “harvesting baby parts” create an incriminating image of Planned Parenthood in the audience’s mind rather than an accurate one. Let’s break this down; for one, “taxes”-because everyone hates taxes, especially when they’re being wasted, that’s the American public’s hard earned money. Secondly, “harvesting baby parts” is one of the worst statements I personally have ever heard, what audiences need to understand is that scientifically speaking …show more content…
Republicans are creating heavily edited videos out of secretly taped footage and releasing them to the public in order to gain support. As I said early right-wing conservatives consider themselves of the utmost moral etc. however, lying to get what you want does not seem so righteous, let alone politically correct. All the propaganda created by the conservative extremists’ is an attempt to cut government funding of Planned Parenthood as previously discussed; but will it work? The answer is no, “it goes against the fundamental values of equality, mutual respect, and human rights that our country stands for” (O’niell). Whether we like it or not, women have the God-given natural right to do as they please with their body. To attempt to take that right away could be seen as an atrocious act of unconstitutionality. Even fellow republican candidate Jeb Bush, who has republican blood literally running through him thanks to his father and brother, declared, “I am against the government shutdown. That’s not how democracy works” while being interviewed on fox news (Barbaro). One cannot force their views, mores, or beliefs on others, that goes against the very foundation of the United States of
Another tendency of these morally right republicans is to obscure the essential line between political and religious views. Most of them suffer from a case of tunnel vision- seeing only what they want to see. Thus creating a prevalent problem in their arguments against Planned Parenthood; they are incredibly and inappropriately biased therefore removing validity from most of their statements. Conservatives in congress, such as David Walberg (represenative of Michigan) made the claim, “No matter what party you belong to, we should all agree that taxpayer dollars should not be used for harvesting baby parts.” This statement while holding some truth, contorts the true purpose of tax dollars that are utilized to support Planned Parenthood. Taxes contributed to Planned Parenthood pay for women to be tested for cancer, STD’s, and most importantly receive affordable reproductive health care when necessary. Saying things like “taxpayer dollars” and “harvesting baby parts” create an incriminating image of Planned Parenthood in the audience’s mind rather than an accurate one. Let’s break this down; for one, “taxes”-because everyone hates taxes, especially when they’re being wasted, that’s the American public’s hard earned money. Secondly, “harvesting baby parts” is one of the worst statements I personally have ever heard, what audiences need to understand is that scientifically speaking …show more content…
Republicans are creating heavily edited videos out of secretly taped footage and releasing them to the public in order to gain support. As I said early right-wing conservatives consider themselves of the utmost moral etc. however, lying to get what you want does not seem so righteous, let alone politically correct. All the propaganda created by the conservative extremists’ is an attempt to cut government funding of Planned Parenthood as previously discussed; but will it work? The answer is no, “it goes against the fundamental values of equality, mutual respect, and human rights that our country stands for” (O’niell). Whether we like it or not, women have the God-given natural right to do as they please with their body. To attempt to take that right away could be seen as an atrocious act of unconstitutionality. Even fellow republican candidate Jeb Bush, who has republican blood literally running through him thanks to his father and brother, declared, “I am against the government shutdown. That’s not how democracy works” while being interviewed on fox news (Barbaro). One cannot force their views, mores, or beliefs on others, that goes against the very foundation of the United States of