A low-class woman who lives day-to-day on a minimum wage hourly pay finds out she is pregnant. This is her first child, but she cannot afford to pay for pregnancy counseling, because she doesn’t know if she is ready to raise this child, so she goes to Planned Parenthood. Here, the doctors and technicians give her what is needed at no cost. When most people think about Planned Parenthood, they think of abortions, although this is only a small amount of services that they offer. In today’s society, Planned Parenthood is being defunded in many different states across the U.S., without people looking at the benefits. Despite the fact that some services that Planned Parenthood offers are against religious beliefs, the overall value of it being funded
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If people are not able to afford an abortion, how are they supposed to be able to have that right. In the Casey v. Planned Parenthood case of 1992, the courts affirmed women 's’ right to an abortion. According to Alex McBride, a law student at Tulane Law School, “This right also protects the abortion decision, the Court also argued, because it implicates equally intimate questions of a woman 's personal autonomy, personal sacrifices, emotional and mental health, and fundamental right to define her life.” (McBride) How could a woman have the right to define her life if she is unable to afford the treatments she chooses for her baby? In order to protect the rights of the people of the United States, certain funding must need to be established, and funding to Planned Parenthood could be a start of …show more content…
Sandy Florez, argues that without Planned Parenthood, many women will go without treatments due to the lack of health care coverage. A bit less than a fourth of women are covered by health insurance. Florez argues, “Providing nearly one million pap tests and about 830,000 breast exams each year, de-funding Planned Parenthood may increase the already alarming numbers of women in America that have fallen victim to cervical cancer.” (Florez) According to the National Cancer Institute, there is an estimated 40,290 deaths in 2015. This number, similar to what Florez was stating, is very high, even with free testing available, so imagine the death number without free treatments.
Planned Parenthood provides women with reliable services for little to no cost, and should be federally funded in order to keep these services going. Although many people are against abortion, Planned Parenthood provides an assortment of other services. Not only are these services needed, some of which are rights for Americans to have access to. How would you feel if you were unable to afford sexual care, yet none was provided to
If people are not able to afford an abortion, how are they supposed to be able to have that right. In the Casey v. Planned Parenthood case of 1992, the courts affirmed women 's’ right to an abortion. According to Alex McBride, a law student at Tulane Law School, “This right also protects the abortion decision, the Court also argued, because it implicates equally intimate questions of a woman 's personal autonomy, personal sacrifices, emotional and mental health, and fundamental right to define her life.” (McBride) How could a woman have the right to define her life if she is unable to afford the treatments she chooses for her baby? In order to protect the rights of the people of the United States, certain funding must need to be established, and funding to Planned Parenthood could be a start of …show more content…
Sandy Florez, argues that without Planned Parenthood, many women will go without treatments due to the lack of health care coverage. A bit less than a fourth of women are covered by health insurance. Florez argues, “Providing nearly one million pap tests and about 830,000 breast exams each year, de-funding Planned Parenthood may increase the already alarming numbers of women in America that have fallen victim to cervical cancer.” (Florez) According to the National Cancer Institute, there is an estimated 40,290 deaths in 2015. This number, similar to what Florez was stating, is very high, even with free testing available, so imagine the death number without free treatments.
Planned Parenthood provides women with reliable services for little to no cost, and should be federally funded in order to keep these services going. Although many people are against abortion, Planned Parenthood provides an assortment of other services. Not only are these services needed, some of which are rights for Americans to have access to. How would you feel if you were unable to afford sexual care, yet none was provided to