The question in question is “should the federal government continue to fund Planned Parenthood?” I think that the government should stay out of personal matters. There are many different avenues to approach Planned Parenthood. My thesis is the government should not fund Planned Parenthood because it is not the taxpayers’ child but it is their money, there are plenty of people that donate to cover the cost of Planned Parenthood, and it should not be placed on the taxpayer to pay for someone else’s choice.
The child in question is not a child from America’s womb. It is a child from the womb of the mother. The only ones that should bear responsibility for an abortion are the parents of the child. The United States collectively did not have sex, …show more content…
Here recently in lieu of President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence winning the elections donations to Planned Parenthood have gone up. This is mostly due to people knowing that Vice President-elect Mike Pence wants to defund Planned Parenthood. “According to the Indianapolis Star, there have been 160,000 donations to Planned Parenthood in the last week — 12.5 percent in the name of Pence,” says Julie Maziotta of People Magazine. Julie Maziotta also said “Several celebrities donated to Planned Parenthood in the seven days since the election, including Katy Perry (who gave $10,000), and Amy Schumer and Amber Tamblyn, who said they donated in Pence’s name.” With all of these donations it seems like if Planned Parenthood happened to be defunded the organization would make out okay. Kimberly Ross of Red State says “In fact, Planned Parenthood has so much money on hand that they spent $38 million on campaigns this year to put Hillary in the White House and pro-abort candidates in Congress.” Now that is a lot of money to be spent on something that has nothing to do with the patients of Planned Parenthood. To me it just seems unjust that people are paying taxes to the government for abortions while the Planned Parenthood business gets to play with tax dollars from the government to support a candidate’s
The child in question is not a child from America’s womb. It is a child from the womb of the mother. The only ones that should bear responsibility for an abortion are the parents of the child. The United States collectively did not have sex, …show more content…
Here recently in lieu of President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence winning the elections donations to Planned Parenthood have gone up. This is mostly due to people knowing that Vice President-elect Mike Pence wants to defund Planned Parenthood. “According to the Indianapolis Star, there have been 160,000 donations to Planned Parenthood in the last week — 12.5 percent in the name of Pence,” says Julie Maziotta of People Magazine. Julie Maziotta also said “Several celebrities donated to Planned Parenthood in the seven days since the election, including Katy Perry (who gave $10,000), and Amy Schumer and Amber Tamblyn, who said they donated in Pence’s name.” With all of these donations it seems like if Planned Parenthood happened to be defunded the organization would make out okay. Kimberly Ross of Red State says “In fact, Planned Parenthood has so much money on hand that they spent $38 million on campaigns this year to put Hillary in the White House and pro-abort candidates in Congress.” Now that is a lot of money to be spent on something that has nothing to do with the patients of Planned Parenthood. To me it just seems unjust that people are paying taxes to the government for abortions while the Planned Parenthood business gets to play with tax dollars from the government to support a candidate’s