I have gone back and forth through article after article
about Texas funding Planned Parenthood. The final decision has been made that
Texas will give up funding to Planned Parenthood. But I believe Texas should fund Planned Parenthood. There is
no question as to why, in my opinion. I strongly support Planned Parenthood and
any other affiliates that “provide women with health services and many more
functions of essential health and education in Texas.”
I personally relied on
Planned Parenthood when I was a teen and didn’t have any other option at the
time for a health care provider. My Mom didn’t have health insurance for us and
I was appreciative of the services they provided me as I became a young woman
and needed assistance with well woman exams, etc. I believe women have a right
to what they choose to do with their own bodies.
I declare that Texas should be concerned with giving people the
services they need, regardless if the facility also provides abortions. That
should be the least of the State’s concern. How can local Government tell a
woman what to do with her body?
I am very concerned of where the people who
currently use Planned Parenthood will go if they can’t keep their doors open.
If the funding doesn’t come from the State, where will Planned Parenthood get
the money they will lose? The Government was paying 90% of the program. Planned
Parenthood currently provides service to over “100,000 low-income Texas women.”
I stand by those women in providing the services they need to stay healthy and
knowledgeable for themselves and their families.
We as women need to fight for
our rights and unite to support those that need assistance. We have an accomplished
health care provider already in place called Planned Parenthood; they have been
“serving the State of Texas for over 75 years.” They got it right for many
years and now need support for their services. Who will stand in agreement with me
on this highly debated topic?
1 comment:
I personally find funding for Planned Parenthood very important. Ms. Dehoyoz explains how it is wrong for Texas to completely cut off funding to an organization that is dedicated to women's healthcare. Frankly, I couldn't agree more.
As a woman who has been helped by planned parenthood in the past and has several friends that were also helped when they had nowhere else to turn, it is an organization that I believe is entirely worth the money. Especially in the state of Texas where we have a reputation for one of the worst states in the nation when it comes to women's health. With this information, why would we ever want to make our statistics worse and risk even less women getting the proper healthcare that they need?
My guess is that it has to do with a particular procedure that Planned Parenthood performs; abortions. Now while my personal view on abortion is pro-life, that is an opinion that I reserve specifically for my own body. I don't pretend to know exactly what another woman is or has gone through. For that reason, I think that to provide a safe and medically sound environment is important.
The other bad reputation that Planned Parenthood gets is that it is a promoter of sex. While it is true that a young woman can walk into a clinic and receive a form a birth control, whether it's a condom, the pill, etc; this organization is trying to promote safety for something that teenagers with hormones racing through their bodies are going to do anyways. I believe that it's a parent's job to teach their children values about their bodies and sex; if they have done that properly then they won't have to worry about the problem. However, there are teens out there who haven't been taught those values, and for their sake I believe that Planned Parenthood needs to stick around.
Overall, I thought that Ms. Dehoyoz did a great job expressing her opinion on the topic; using cites and statistics to back her argument.
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