...recently made by President-elect Donald Trump, the future of women’s reproductive rights and Planned Parenthood, an organization that facilitates family planning services and reproductive healthcare to many low-income women, is a topic of national discussion. President-elect Trump has been openly pro-life throughout his campaign, and has also talked on many occasions about his wishes to cease federally funding Planned Parenthood as long as they continue providing abortions. Planned Parenthood provides many other vital, and often life-changing services to women outside of abortions, and the federal government should continue funding Planned Parenthood because all women have the right to those services if they choose to seek them....
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...THESIS: Planned Parenthood should not be defunded by the federal government because it would be illogical, people would lose resources, and Planned Parenthood provides more than just abortions, contrary to popular beliefs. MORE THAN ABORTIONS MISLEADING STATISTICS A statistic circulated the 94% of Planned Parenthood’s procedures are abortions, which is misleading and untrue. It was created by a Susan B. Anthony association and included all “pregnancy services,” including prenatal tests and adoption referrals, even though the two are totally unrelated (Rovner). Adoption referrals do not even directly correlate to abortions. If a parent seeks an abortion referral, it would mean that they were planning on having the child and not aborting...
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...particular obstacle that has created barriers for women is the means of acquiring abortions and access to women’s health care without criticism. Anti-choice policy makers’ claim that restrictions are necessary in protecting the well-being and health of women, their pregnancies and their children (Burns, Dennis, Douglas-Durham), these claims are part of the hindrances of providing safety in women’s health care. What we are dealing with is policy makers putting many obstacles up for caregivers and patients to acquire safe and healthy means of terminating pregnancies that are unwanted, whether it is the fully mature female who did not have contraceptive or the 13 year...
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...Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood federation of America (PPFA), better known as Planned Parenthood, is a non-profit organization that provides healthcare and family planning services. Planned Parenthood is the nation's leading sexual and reproductive health care provider and advocate (Planned). Planned Parenthood receives federal funding to help practice the services they provide, but some groups believe that funding this organization is morally wrong. Critics of Planned Parenthood say the Government should not continue to fund this organization because of the certain services they provide. To cut funding from this organization would be wrong and would absolutely jeopardize individuals and families who seek assistance from it. Planned Parenthood is an affordable healthcare that provides services that other healthcare companies do not provide. To defund the organization would cause harm and leave many people to go without their essential services, which is unjust. Margaret Sanger was the founder of Planned Parenthood in 1916, with the opening of a birth control critic for women. The opening of the clinic ended soon and that lead to her incarceration (Planned). By 1952 the organization became one of the founding members of the International Planned Parenthood Foundation (MSPP). Richard Nixon was an important advocator of women being able to attain contraceptives at an affordable price, and from that he signed a law passed by congress known as the Title X of the Public...
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...Abortion in America: Right to Life or Right to Choose Paul Day, Felicia Jones, Thomas Ratcliff, Theresa M. Saau, Natasha Sabbah BCOM 275 June 26, 2014 Cecile Morris Abstract Abortion in America: Right to Life or Right to Choose Arguments for or against performing abortions in the United States, persist and are highly debatable. Since the 1973 Federal Supreme Court ruling of Rowe versus Wade, abortions have become established as legal in the United States. (Glendon, 2003) Legalized abortion in the United States, has received strong support from Pro-Choice proponents such as Planned Parenthood. (Planned Parenthood, 2014) Pro-Choice advocates for abortion, believe that pregnancies can be allowed to be ended prematurely. (MNT, 2009) Pro-Life advocates, on the other hand, view abortion as murder to human life. Opponents to legalizing abortions performed in the United States, often include Pro-Life supporters and certain religious groups. The issue of abortion in American society often involves individual belief and personal choice. The five members of the University of Phoenix’s BCOM/275, Learning Team C, have separated into two groups to debate the pros and cons relating to the legalization of abortions in the United States. Three team members debated the abortion topic from a Pro-Life perspective, and two team members sought to represent the Pro-Choice position. A team debate was held on June 13, 2014. The purpose of the debate, was to gather information from...
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...The Strategic Planning and Evaluation of Planned Parenthood Julie Carpenter HCA 421 Health Care Planning & Evaluation Instructor: Amanda Olderog January 13, 2013 In the business world, strategic thinking/planning is having the ability to see an organization in light of the “bigger picture;” seeing an organization how it is now, and how it will be in four or ten years down the road. Strategic planning implements knowledge of the industry’s direction and how an organization’s future plans align with that direction. In the true business management sense, strategy is distinguished by several key elements: 1. It steers the direction of the company and affects the long-term health of the company. 2. It is usually measured in years; it is a long-term plan that will take years to meet goals. 3. Its impact is felt company wide. 4. It builds on and utilizes all of the available company resources. 5. Its implementation is meant to gain an advantage over competitors. 6. It typically means change for the company in many different areas. 7. Its success is a result of the efforts and hard work of many people within the company. (Moseley, 2009). Planned Parenthood can date its beginning to 1916 when Margaret Sanger, her sister, and a friend opened America's first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York. (http://www.plannedparenthood.org). Although the state Montana elected a woman to the House of Representatives in 1916, many other states still...
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...Casey vs. Planned Parenthood decision, the Supreme Court struck down a Pennsylvania law that required, among other things, a 24hour waiting period between the confirmation of a pregnancy and an abortion. 2. In what year did the Supreme Court rule that abortions were legal? 3. The 1992 Supreme Court decision in the Casey vs. Planned Parenthood case upheld a Pennsylvania law that placed which of the following restrictions on abortion? 4. In 1973, abortion became legal in the United States by virtue of 5. The Hyde Amendment, passed by Congress in 1976, 6. A researcher asks, "What is your relationship to the people you are living with?" He provides the following list of choices: parents/relatives, friends, spouse, living by myself, other. What method of gaining information is being used? 7. A social problem for some may be a solution for others. 8. The first state to define abortion as a private, noncriminal act was Alaska. 9. The text argues that one of the ways that sociologists can promote a better understanding of social problems is by 10. In Kristin Luker's study of an abortion clinic, she found that many unmarried women who obtained abortions had not used contraceptives because they did not want to confront the fact that they were sexually active. 11. One of the major advantages of using openended rather than closedended questions is that 12. Experiments are rarely used in the study of social problems because 13. According to Georg...
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...Wiggins UNIV-103 10/12/13 Wesley Abortions: Pro- Choice We have seen it in the declaration of independence, and have heard it for Martin Luther king Jr. “All men are created equal.” That means all women and men were created equally and that we all have equal rights, and should all be treated equally. With abortion, being the controversial issue that it is, are “all men” really created equally? In 1973, abortion was legalized by the U.S. Supreme Court rule in Roe v. Wade. This made it safe for a woman to get an abortion legally, no matter what the reason may be. More than half of our world though still looks down upon a woman getting an abortion, and want it to become banned again, and are strongly considering it in some states; but they don’t even know there situation of the possibility that the woman’s physical health could be at a high risk, or the possibility that the women could have been raped by either a stranger or a family member, or that the child would be born with a severe disability. Back in 1982 my moms friend went to go get an abortion at a small family clinic in North Houston, because her life was on the line. They made her fill out regular outpatient forms, and she told me that one of the questions that was on there was “are you Catholic, and practice it on a weekly basis?” She checked that box, and once she was done filling out the form she turned it in. The women looked at her, and told her she needed to find another clinic to go to. she looked...
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...Planned Parenthood of Indiana Brenda Sheppard COM/215 02/23/2015 David Mumford Planned Parenthood of Indiana There are 3 good reasons to support Planned Parenthood of Indiana. Hello my name is Brenda Sheppard and I am writing this to persuade you all to support Planned Parenthood of Indiana. There are three good reasons why I believe you should. The first being that PPHI offers basic preventive health care; the second is that they have services that are more affordable and accessible for low or no-income individuals; and the final reason being they offer comprehensive sex health education. (Access, 2011) (Cockrum, 2010) Planned Parenthood of Indiana offers basic preventive health care, some of these services are crucial and life saving. Some examples of the services that they offer are different types of birth control such as the depo shot, the birth control pill, the IUD, to name a few. Other services include annual exams, Pap tests, STD and HPV testing, Prescriptions, as well as cancer screening. These services are there to find abnormalities before they have the opportunity to turn cancerous and to let people know there are options for long-term birth control. (Access, 2011) (Cockrum, 2010) Planned Parenthood of Indiana offers services that are more affordable and accessible for low or no-income individuals. PPHI serves 3 million men and woman annually. Every time we spend a dollar on family planning, we are saving taxpayers 4 dollars on every unintended pregnancies...
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...Savan Patel The most common and unnecessary form of infanticide is an abortion. The abortion rate of America alone is shockingly high and yet increases every year. So why are so many women choosing to end the lives of unborn babies that weren’t even given the chance to live? For most women, the reason is social issues: they may not feel ready or prepared to have a baby, they may be too young or they just view their pregnancy as a mistake. No matter the reason, abortions are not acceptable and we, as Americans, should fight as hard as we can to diminish them just like we would, murder or terrorism. Since abortions have become such an everyday procedure, scientists and physicians have developed many ways to perform them. One way, if the fetus is 12 to 14 weeks old, being through the use of vacuum aspiration equipment. After the women’s cervix is dilated with steel rods, the surgeon forces the cervix open little by little until it is wide enough for contents to be removed through it. A syringe especially designed for these procedures creates a vacuum inside the women and the suction pulls the contents out of the uterus, including the fetus, so that it is on the outside. For the last step, the physician makes sure to scrape the walls of the uterus using a curette and once he is finished, the women is once again without child. Performing an abortion anytime after this period can be dangerous because by this time the uterus and blood vessels are much larger, and if these fluids...
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...Illegal Abortion is a topic that gets a lot of attention but it often misinformed about. What is abortion in definition form? What are the ways abortions are performed? How do we as a country, try to limit them?What are the ethics of abortion? 2015 Dakoda Breanna Schoolman Grace College 6/17/2015 Murder in the Womb : Why it Should be Illegal Abortion is a topic that gets a lot of attention but it often misinformed about. What is abortion in definition form? What are the ways abortions are performed? How do we as a country, try to limit them?What are the ethics of abortion? 2015 Dakoda Breanna Schoolman Grace College 6/17/2015 Table of Contents Introduction 1 Body 1 What is an abortion? 1 History of Abortion Laws 2 Roe vs Wade 3 How Harmful Abortion is to the Mother 4 Is Abortion Murder? 5 Is Abortion Morally wrong? 6 Is Abortion the Best Option? 7 Development of Babies 8 Ways to Avoid Pregnancy 8 Closing 9 Dakoda Breanna Schoolman Professor Richard Bragg English 1100 20 November 2014 Murder in the Womb: Why it Should be Illegal Introduction Imagine you have a teenage daughter. You have coached and explained to her the consequences and how you should wait to have sex till after you are married. One day she comes to you crying and upset. She tells you that she broke your rule of no sex before marriage and says that she is pregnant. What would you want her to do? Would you tell her to go have an abortion so that she...
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...Abortion Shauntel Williams MED100 Medical Law, Liability, & Ethics Robyn Johnson November 6, 2014 Shauntel Williams Robyn Johnson MED100 Medical Law, Liability, and Ethics November 6, 2014 Abortion The debate over whether or not abortion should be a legal option continues to divide Americans long after the US Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision on Roe v. Wade declared the procedure a "fundamental right" on Jan. 22, 1973. Proponents, identifying themselves as pro-choice, contend that choosing abortion is a right that should not be limited by governmental or religious authority, and which outweighs any right claimed for an embryo or fetus. They say that pregnant women will resort to unsafe illegal abortions if there is no legal option. Opponents, identifying themselves as pro-life, contend that personhood begins at conception, and therefore abortion is the immoral killing of an innocent human being. They say abortion inflicts suffering on the unborn child, and that it is unfair to allow abortion when couples who cannot biologically conceive are waiting to adopt. Variations exist in arguments on both sides of the debate. Some pro-choice proponents believe abortion should only be used as a last resort, while others advocate unrestricted access to abortion services under any circumstance. Pro-life positions range from opposing abortion under any circumstance to accepting it for situations of rape, incest, or when a woman's life is at risk. Some prominent pro-choice organizations...
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...Abortion is one of the most controversial issues in society today. This topic has become a very large dispute due to the right of having choices in society. A woman’s right to choose to have an abortion or not, is legally her fundamental right. However, if society outlaws the choice of having an abortion, society is interfering with the woman’s right to make decisions related to her own body. Therefore, this is when the question comes in on whether abortion should be justifiable or not looking at factors influencing one’s decisions, the effects of religious norms, structural constraints, and personal religiosity. This argumentative topic can be supported from the sociological concepts of sociological imagination and social conflict in society...
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...2012 Health Care Trends Health care is changing more and more everyday. Two trends that have evolved over the recent years are abortions and the impact the economy has had on patients seeking medical care. As a health care administrator of a facility, one or both of these trends require attention at some point in time dependent on the services provided at the organization. These two trends have become problems for multiple reasons. There is currently a dispute between pro-life and pro-choice activists who you can usually see standing outside of clinics or facilities that offer abortion services. It has gotten to a point where the government is now involved in trying to settle the dispute. The other trend is people are delaying treatment because of the cost of services. In a myriad number of scenarios, this results in the cost of services escalating because the patient no longer utilizes routine and in-expensive treatment. They now require extensive treatment that is costly and with insurance companies placing the financial burden on individuals, this is becoming a major problem. These two trends collectively are major factors that can impact health care administrators and them maintaining a profitable business or covering costs for non-for profit organizations. Currently, women have the right to make the choice to have an abortion. An abortion takes place when a mother decides to terminate life of a fetus that is growing inside of her. Some states have found ways to restrict...
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...Abortion American Government Bea Skrent Louis Beafore March 20th 2014 Bea Skrent Louis Beafore American Government 7 March 2014 Abortion Abortion is one of the most highly debated topics in America. Religion, personal beliefs, and culture are the main things that tie into the opposing views in this debate. Some people view abortion to be murder, they believe the fetus to be a under developed person that can feel pain. While others believe a fetus is just a mass of cells that is too under developed to feel any pain. There are so many different opinions on this topic that it is hard to map who is right and who is wrong. But ultimately, abortion should be the parent’s choice. With that being said, abortion should be legal because life does not begin at conception, not ever person is fit to be a parent, and unfortunately, unlawful pregnancies take place. Views on abortion can be broken down into two groups, those who oppose abortion (pro-life), and those who support abortion rights (pro-choice). In 1916, an American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse, Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States. She established organizations that evolved into Planned Parenthood, which is a commonly known organization to this day. Sanger was arrested because she delivered information on contraceptives, but after continuous fighting, and several judicial cases, contraceptives were legalized in the United States. Many years later, in 1973,...
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