Planned Parenthood is currently under a great deal of scrutiny concerning whether or not they violated Federal Law by selling aborted baby parts. The Federal Government is also trying to decide if they should cut the $500 million of funding that Planned Parenthood receives.
While Planned Parenthood may have been breaking Federal Law, I do not believe that the government should defund them. Planned Parenthood does much more than just abortions; they do STI/STD testing and treatment, provide multiple types of contraception, cancer screenings and prevention, pregnancy tests and prenatal services, adoption referrals to other agencies, and urinary tract infection treatments. All of these services are available for men, women, and teenagers. They help many people all over the country. Planned Parenthood assists 800,000 women with life- saving breast exams, more than 4 million Americans with testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, and 2.5 million people with contraception (“Learn”). They are the nation’s …show more content…
Most of their services, 76%, goes toward STI/STD testing and treatment as well as contraception. (Fund)
Planned Parenthood is accused of selling aborted fetal tissue and body part for profit. However, they claim to only receive money for the transportation purposes only. National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993 states that the fetal tissue can be donated but not sold for any kind of profit of any sort. The 1993 law also makes exceptions for "reasonable payments associated with the transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, or storage of human fetal tissue” (Yoder) which is what Planned Parenthood claims that they are
While Planned Parenthood may have been breaking Federal Law, I do not believe that the government should defund them. Planned Parenthood does much more than just abortions; they do STI/STD testing and treatment, provide multiple types of contraception, cancer screenings and prevention, pregnancy tests and prenatal services, adoption referrals to other agencies, and urinary tract infection treatments. All of these services are available for men, women, and teenagers. They help many people all over the country. Planned Parenthood assists 800,000 women with life- saving breast exams, more than 4 million Americans with testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, and 2.5 million people with contraception (“Learn”). They are the nation’s …show more content…
Most of their services, 76%, goes toward STI/STD testing and treatment as well as contraception. (Fund)
Planned Parenthood is accused of selling aborted fetal tissue and body part for profit. However, they claim to only receive money for the transportation purposes only. National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993 states that the fetal tissue can be donated but not sold for any kind of profit of any sort. The 1993 law also makes exceptions for "reasonable payments associated with the transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, or storage of human fetal tissue” (Yoder) which is what Planned Parenthood claims that they are