Image via WikipediaWe have been supporting PLANNED PARENTHOOD for many years. We believe in their mission and we think they are a very positive contributor to the welfare of many Americans.
Unfortunately, Republicans have blinders on and can only associate Planned Parenthood with abortion and therefore a target for destruction. This is total ignorance of what the organization does but Republicans don’t care; its all about pro-life and fetus worship.
In Indiana
MEDICAID people are low-income people. Many are black and these people (women) rely on Planned Parenthood to provide birth-control pills, breast exams, Pap smears and other medical service and of course, abortion procedures are also provided but abortion services are a small part of what the organization provides.
I have lauded Republican Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels for his wise shepherding of Indiana
I will point out that Rand Paul and his father Ron Paul are Republicans and Libertarians but obviously they are a tiny minority in the Republican Party.
Now follow this logic…Medicaid patients are poor. Planned Parenthood counsel poor women about how to prevent unwanted pregnancies and provides birth-control pills as well as many other female related medical procedures.
If they are barred from providing these services (including abortion procedures), these women may well get seriously sick (ex. Uterine cancer) and /or have unwanted babies.
Once seriously sick the state has to pick up their health tab for treating this now serious illness which will be substantial or the state will pay for the unwanted babies for the life of those babies who will statistically end up on welfare or in prison. This does not sound like a smart fiscal policy; in fact, it is down right irresponsible to be playing with taxpayer’s money in this way.
But obviously this is not a fiscal issue for these Republicans who are otherwise so very smart in their handling of the state’s economy.
Ironically, they are willing to make downright stupid and damaging fiscal decisions when it comes to social issues like abortion and this is what drives me up a wall.
Nobody is pro-abortion but denying these poor women access to “planned” parenthood services you are not only hurting those women but you are putting the welfare of unwanted babies in jeopardy, who will statistically go through much suffering as unwanted babies.
I realize that anti-choice is a religious issue as well and for some reason, THESE people THINK that God wants to hurt women and unwanted babies just to prevent an abortion knowing full well that Planned Parenthood actual works to prevent abortions.
People tell me it is not possible to discuss this issue in a logical manner since logic plays no role here. It is pure emotionalism and religious superstition; so leave it alone, but I cannot…
I think since the Supreme Court made abortion legal, no politician, no state can make laws against that law which is also a RIGHT and if we cannot show the rationale behind our views, we must fight them in the courts…
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