Unplanned Parenthood: The Hidden Costs

This month a bill is being voted on that will completely defund Planned Parenthood. The pro-lifers will be cheering in self-righteousness if this passes. But before we get all high and mighty over what we are about to do, let’s look at the facts.

According to Planned Parenthood’s website:

·         Only 3% of all Planned Parenthood services are abortion services.

·         One in five women in the United States has visited a Planned Parenthood in their lifetime.

·         79% of Planned Parenthood clients are over the age of 20.

·         Planned Parenthood provides nearly 1,000,000 Pap tests and more than 830,000 breast exams each year, tests that are crucial towards preventing cancer.

·         Planned Parenthood provides almost 4,000,000 tests and treatments for STD’s and STI’s, including HIV.

The extremists want you to believe that abortions are the only thing Planned Parenthood provides. In fact, Senator Jon Kyl blatantly lied, saying, abortion services “are well over 90% of what Planned Parenthood does.”

Let’s think logically for a moment and give emotional thinking a rest. Funding Planned Parenthood saves us greatly in the long. Planned Parenthood educates our youth into making smart decisions with their bodies and teaches them to be safe; because, let’s be honest, the average age for sex is 15 years old. It is smarter to teach them to be safe instead of deluding ourselves into thinking our children will be virgins forever. At least this way, we can prevent unwanted pregnancies before the option even turns to abortion. This is morally and logically the right way to handle it.

Economically, it saves us as well. By preventing unwanted pregnancy, even in cases of abortion, we prevent the burden being placed on the taxpayer. Because when a poor person has a child they either give it up for adoption, forcing us to pay for it, or they keep it and live off of government assistance, again placing the cost burden on the taxpayer. The smart decision is to pay a little upfront, preventing a lot having more to be spent in the future.

Source:

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/planned-parenthood-glance-5552.htm