Margaret Sangers, founder of the first birth control clinic in 1916, saw it close down after just ten days of being open because she was trying to give women a chance to control their bodies and their lives. Planned Parenthood has been constantly attacked by critics and has been a ginormous part of women’s lives due to the services the clinic provides. There is a tremendous amount of arguments/controversy towards Planned Parenthood and it’s been the topic in social media and in candidate speeches. As the race of presidency begins, many candidates’ have mentioned Planned Parenthood and women’s rights to access those clinics. Although only some candidates’ are supporting Planned Parenthood and others aren’t. Planned Parenthood has been attacked
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Planned Parenthood had already made a statement about how they don’t use federal money to pay for abortions. Women pay for abortions out of pocket. Jeb Bush for example, stated he wasn’t sure why we need five hundred million dollars in funding women’s health programs. Bush, governor of Florida, defunded Planned Parenthood in Florida and wants to do it federally too (Jeb1). Chris Christie is the first governor to ever veto Planned Parenthood funding out of the budget. Christie has been able to defund Planned Parenthood in New Jersey for six years in a row (Arco1). Clinton mentions that when politicians talk about defunding Planned Parenthood, they’re really talking about taking away millions of women, men and young people from live-saving preventive care. These attacks aren’t new, we’ve seen them in Wisconsin where Gov. Walker defunded Planned Parenthood and left women across the state stranded with nowhere else to turn (Clinton1). When they attack women’s health, they also attack America’s health and it’s wrong and we shouldn’t let them get away with it (Collin2). Sanders somewhat agrees with Clinton, he will defend Planned Parenthood and believes a lot of this attack, are from people who don’t believe that a woman should have control of her own body
Planned Parenthood had already made a statement about how they don’t use federal money to pay for abortions. Women pay for abortions out of pocket. Jeb Bush for example, stated he wasn’t sure why we need five hundred million dollars in funding women’s health programs. Bush, governor of Florida, defunded Planned Parenthood in Florida and wants to do it federally too (Jeb1). Chris Christie is the first governor to ever veto Planned Parenthood funding out of the budget. Christie has been able to defund Planned Parenthood in New Jersey for six years in a row (Arco1). Clinton mentions that when politicians talk about defunding Planned Parenthood, they’re really talking about taking away millions of women, men and young people from live-saving preventive care. These attacks aren’t new, we’ve seen them in Wisconsin where Gov. Walker defunded Planned Parenthood and left women across the state stranded with nowhere else to turn (Clinton1). When they attack women’s health, they also attack America’s health and it’s wrong and we shouldn’t let them get away with it (Collin2). Sanders somewhat agrees with Clinton, he will defend Planned Parenthood and believes a lot of this attack, are from people who don’t believe that a woman should have control of her own body