Planned Parenthood has been supporting men, women and children since 1916. Their mission being, to provide everyone with affordable and reliable healthcare. These practices pertain to reproductive health all the way to even essential personal privacy rights of individuals. Planned Parenthood is known mostly for providing advice about contraception, family planning, and reproductive problems and have helped to prevent approximately 515,000 unintended pregnancies. Recently, the Republican party is attempting to pass a Bill stating that it will freeze all federal funding to Planned Parenthood for one year. Defunding Planned Parenthood will hurt the community as a whole by taking away health care for thousands of people who benefit from it.
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While it may not affect specific individuals personally it affects other women who can benefit from using it, there will be less healthcare for around 650,000 women worldwide. It will be even worse for the economy considering, “it is estimated that every dollar spent on publicly funded family planning yields a savings of $7.09 in public expenditures. In 2013, the government expenditures on unintended pregnancies and the associated births, abortions, and miscarriages totaled $21.0 billion. Permanently stripping Planned Parenthood of federal funding would increase government spending by $130 million over a decade.” (Flynn) Federal funding makes up about a third of the organization’s revenue, most of it comes from Medicaid. While it is not known when Planned Parenthood would be able to replace that money with other sources, the CBO estimated that any available way to fill in the gap would eventually run out. This would reduce reproductive healthcare for about 5-25 percent of the people it currently helps. It would mostly hurt women in low-income areas where its difficult to find other options. Without these services, the women in those areas would have a harder time avoiding unwanted pregnancies. The additional births would have to be covered by Medicaid, Medicaid alone would increase by $650 million over 10 years, and with the estimated savings of not funding to Planned Parenthood, net spending would increase. According to the Guttmacher Institute, “without these services rates of abortion, unintended pregnancies, and unplanned births would have all been 60 percent higher, and the related costs could have been as much as 75 percent.” (Flynn) An article from TheBlaze read, “It certainly is not in the best interest of the economy, and it’s not in the best interest of protecting health care for the American people”. Some
Considering …show more content…
While it may not affect specific individuals personally it affects other women who can benefit from using it, there will be less healthcare for around 650,000 women worldwide. It will be even worse for the economy considering, “it is estimated that every dollar spent on publicly funded family planning yields a savings of $7.09 in public expenditures. In 2013, the government expenditures on unintended pregnancies and the associated births, abortions, and miscarriages totaled $21.0 billion. Permanently stripping Planned Parenthood of federal funding would increase government spending by $130 million over a decade.” (Flynn) Federal funding makes up about a third of the organization’s revenue, most of it comes from Medicaid. While it is not known when Planned Parenthood would be able to replace that money with other sources, the CBO estimated that any available way to fill in the gap would eventually run out. This would reduce reproductive healthcare for about 5-25 percent of the people it currently helps. It would mostly hurt women in low-income areas where its difficult to find other options. Without these services, the women in those areas would have a harder time avoiding unwanted pregnancies. The additional births would have to be covered by Medicaid, Medicaid alone would increase by $650 million over 10 years, and with the estimated savings of not funding to Planned Parenthood, net spending would increase. According to the Guttmacher Institute, “without these services rates of abortion, unintended pregnancies, and unplanned births would have all been 60 percent higher, and the related costs could have been as much as 75 percent.” (Flynn) An article from TheBlaze read, “It certainly is not in the best interest of the economy, and it’s not in the best interest of protecting health care for the American people”. Some