07-29-2015, 04:20 PM
(07-29-2015, 04:11 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Planned Parenthood has been used by many women for a wide variety of services, not just abortions.
During the 2012 election, 31% of women believed there was a wide-spread effort to reduce their access to reproductive services. 45% believed there was an effort, but not that wide spread. Only 7% believed there wasn't. Defund Planned Parenthood, and those numbers increase.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/31/us-usa-healthcare-women-idUSBRE84U05D20120531
There's also the reality that women are more likely to be pro-choice, and this defunding will be seen as an attempt to reduce women's access to safe abortions.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/183434/americans-choose-pro-choice-first-time-seven-years.aspx
http://www.gallup.com/poll/170249/split-abortion-pro-choice-pro-life.aspx
There's also the fact that even a majority of Republican women in 2014 saw the Democrats as being better at preserving their access to reproductive services. Independent women favored Democrats 60-40 with this issue. 86% of voters saw it as an important issue.
http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/media/press-releases/2014/pr11122014_poll.html
But there really was no big assault in 2012 or 2014. Defund Planned Parenthood, however, and you've given the opposition plenty of ammo.
Yes pat but this isn't about just abortions. Actually is almost not even about the abortions. It's about the implications of the harvest organs for sale then why do we have pp when we have community health centers for all the non abortion services and we have obamacare covering birth control and Abortipns. If everyone has to have obamacare then everyone can get an abortion. So there is no need for pp to get public money.
That's the debate.
