Planned Parenthood Case Study

Planned parenthood provides high quality, affordable health care for women, men, and young people all across the country. Five million people depend on Planned Parenthood every year for a variety of different reasons. Planned Parenthood is an advocate for political protection for reproductive rights. Reproductive rights state than an individual has the right to have reproductive health. This includes the right to plan a family, terminate a pregnancy, learn about sex education, use contraceptive medicine, and have the option to gain access to reproductive health services. Politicians are trying to take this right away from women by passing bills in congress that would defund Planned Parenthood and shut it down. As humans, we are born with the …show more content…
Cristal Lynch who is a gynecologist and an activist for women’s rights and Planned Parenthood. “ Planned Parenthood has provided much needed services to many communities for decades. I think the biggest misconception about Planned Parenthood clinics is that they only provide abortions for the masses of poor women on the dole. This could not be further from the truth. Planned Parenthood provides contraceptive counseling, STD detection and treatment, routine Pap smears, colposcopy for the abnormal pap, breast exams as well as a small percentage of abortion procedures. Furthermore, the services are provided to women across a wide range of socioeconomic strata. There are career women who may be in between jobs who used Planned Parenthood. Older women who use Planned Parenthood as well as teens. What is happening right now in the culture with all the politicizing of women’s health in this country makes me sick. If Planned Parenthood were an organization solely proving services to men, I dare say you would see none of these awful attacks and misrepresentations taking place.” Dr. Cristal Lynch strongly believes women’s healthcare is not equal to men. In “ Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” Freire talks about human qualities such as freedom, understanding, and integrity. Women do not receive the proper rights that a human should have when it comes to their personal reproduction rights and healthcare. Dr. Cristal Lynch says that if Planned Parenthood were providing services to solely men, politicians would not try to shut it down. Organizations such as the National Women’s Health Network fight everyday for women to obtain the proper healthcare they deserve. This group has connected people across the country working to end the various forms of injustice impacting