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In addition, Planned Parenthood isn’t just an abortion clinic. It’s much more, providing crucial anonymous and free healthcare to the communities it serves.
Here’s a debunking article from 2017, after Republicans were lying about it:
eta: that leaves nearly 90% of their patients seeking non-abortive care. I don’t know if it’s the same today, but in my day, they were the major non-school, community sex-Ed advocacy group.
In many places, they’re amongst the only free, anonymous providers of reproductive healthcare that young people can turn to for preventative education and care, pregnancy wellness, family planning, and yes, abortion.
It’s disheartening they’re under attack again. In 2024.
e: inclusivity: they provide men’s reproductive services, too! Thanks @Nougat & @FuglyDuck!
The cynic in me thinks that's kind of the point. It's bad for their lobbyist friends to have there be an alternative that doesn't involve shoveling one's life savings into the privatized healthcare system.
Or that. That's a good reason for conservatives to hate it, too.
not just women. men can get checked out there to, tested for STDs and such like.
Man here. Tested positive for HSV-2 after being drugged and assaulted. Planned Parenthood helped me through this horrible time in my life and does to this day providing the Herpes suppressing medication that I have to take everyday for the rest of my life.
I couldn't have begun to feel normal again without Planned Parenthood. I know for certain that I wouldn't have had the confidence to begin a relationship of any kind with my amazing Wife of two years while battling this on my own. Straight cis men like me owe a lot to PP; I literally would not be the man I am without their help.
Edited, thanks!
No worries. It just annoys me how many men I know don't realize they can get checked out at a planned parenthood and potentially save their partners trouble. especially the ones who are more active than others.
Men, definitely.. They do cancer screening, and men tend to be squeamish about prostrate exams (& I don’t blame them; I feel someone should pay me for my mammograms, not the other way round)), and ‘free’ & ‘anonymous’ removes a couple of hurdles.
e: ‘definitely’, not ‘too’. Weed kicked in as I started this comment. Sorry.
Also I'm pretty sure there's already law on the books barring Planned Parenthood from using funds given to them by the federal government on abortion services so taxpayers already aren't funding abortions from them.
Huh, I didn’t know that. It looks like you’re right:
So this is even more performative and vindictive than it seemed at first glance. Thanks for pointing that out!
Which is real fucking rich after the debate where he pretended to be in favor of providing more resources for people wanting to start a family - the exact thing you would strip away if you stopped funding Planned Parenthood.
I'd find the people falling for this grift comically dumb if we weren't headed full steam ahead into an election that could be decided by just a handful of ignorant rubes.
But that's only of you think he cares about starting a healthy family. He wants people to suffer, have babies that then may grow up poor so they can suffer in the grinder that is capitalism, and if they don't grow up then their parents suffer more under said grinder with the healthcare costs further feeding the 1%.
Don't forget that men can go to Planned Parenthood for a wide variety of services, too!