With all the feministas protesting in Washington, D.C today I’ve been thinking about abortion and what is called reproductive justice lately. Upon thinking about it one question came to my mind immediately, why can’t women pay for their own abortions themselves? Why is the government subsidising women’s ability to get abortions?
Why should we men (or anybody) pay taxes that go towards aborting fetuses? Why should the government pay any money whatsoever or financially support abortion clinics?
According to its 2014-15 annual report, Planned Parenthood receives $553.7 million annually in government health service grants and reimbursements, which is 43% of its overall revenue.
However, Planned Parenthood does not receive that federal funding in the form of a blank check or a government account to be billed as the organization pleases. Rather, federal funding is allocated to Planned Parenthood in two ways: through Medicaid and public family planning services, most notably Title X.
About 75% of Planned Parenthood’s government revenue comes from reimbursements provided through Medicaid, the government health care provider for low-income Americans. Planned Parenthood reports that one in five women between the ages of 15 and 44 is on Medicaid.
These Medicaid reimbursements for preventative care work in the same manner as any other health insurance: A Planned Parenthood patient on Medicaid comes in and receives their care, after which Planned Parenthood submits a claim to Medicaid for the services provided. Medicaid then reimburses Planned Parenthood as it would with any other health insurance.
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The report found the Planned Parenthood abortion corporation and its affiliates received $344.5 million in federal funds and another $1.2 billion in funding from Medicaid (which includes a combination of federal and state funds) for a total of $1.5 billion over three years from federal programs. The abortion giant receives $1.2 billion from Medicaid, $201 million from the Title X family planning program $40.6 million from Title XX Social Services block grants and $25.9 million from the Title V Maternal and Child health Services block grant.
In order to stop the funding to the abortion company, lawmakers first need to have an understanding of every potential source of funding the abortion corporation currently receives from the federal government.
lifenews.com/2016/04/18/how- … -tell-you/
As his Administration wanes to its close, President Obama is preparing to implement a new regulation that flies in the face of our Constitution, federalism, and our Founders’ foundational belief that every human life is worthy of inherent dignity because each life is made in the image of God.
The Obama Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services has just issued a final rule that has only one goal – to prohibit states from being able to defund Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers responsible for ending nearly one million vulnerable lives each year.
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the cost of an abortion in the U.S as of 2009 which is the last year
Kropotkin
phyllo
January 21, 2017, 10:03pm
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the cost of an abortion in the U.S as of 2009 which is the last year
Contraception costs money but abortion is free. Which would you choose?
Federal funding
Forty-one percent of Planned Parenthood’s annual revenue—$528 million— came in the form of government grants and reimbursements, according to the group’s 2013-14 annual report. These streams of funding for Planned Parenthood come through various programs including Medicaid and Title X.
While Medicaid and Title X are not directly paying for abortions at the federal level, these programs ensure that Planned Parenthood continues to receive over $500 million in taxpayer funding every year.
As the nation’s largest abortion chain, Planned Parenthood commits over 320,000 abortions annually, and is the leading abortion advocacy group with tremendous political clout. Because money is fungible, the taxpayer dollars that Planned Parenthood brings in allows them to cover overhead for centers that perform abortions. The taxpayer funds free up Planned Parenthood to direct their donations to grow their abortion services, facility reach, and abortion political advocacy. Additionally, once Planned Parenthood earns money for any service, it can freely invest those earnings into abortion activities.
Despite the ways taxpayer dollars flow into the coffers of Big Abortion, Planned Parenthood and its allies continue to fight for taxpayer funding without restriction through the repeal of the Hyde Amendment.
A report from the Government Accountability Office showed that in just three years, Planned Parenthood received $1.5 billion in combined federal and state funding. Six abortion groups received $481 million in federal dollars and $1.2 billion in state and federal funding from 2010-12, with Planned Parenthood receiving the largest share.
Planned Parenthood’s long legacy of scandal —selling baby body parts, covering up child sexual abuse, aiding child sex-traffickers, and displaying willingness to perform abortions based on race and sex, and supporting infanticide— renders it unfit for taxpayer money.
liveactionnews.org/3-ways-taxpay … arenthood/
Although Planned Parenthood Federation of America reportedly requires all affiliates to have at least one clinic that performs abortions,[4] Planned Parenthood’s annual report does not identify the number of affiliated clinics that provide abortion services or how much of Planned Parenthood’s total revenue results from abortions. Instead, the report claims that abortions account for only 3 percent of the medical services Planned Parenthood affiliates provide.[5]
How does the Planned Parenthood annual report arrive at the 3 percent figure? The calculation counts each “discrete clinical interaction” as a separate “medical service,” meaning simple tests or routine provision of birth control are given the same weight as surgical or chemical abortions.[6] For example, if a woman in the course of a year receives a free condom, a pregnancy test, a sexually transmitted infection (STI) test, and an abortion, Planned Parenthood would say abortion was only 25 percent of the services provided.
Even with Planned Parenthood’s broad definition of “medical service,” data reported in the organization’s annual report suggest that roughly 12 percent of people who received a service from Planned Parenthood affiliates received an abortion during the reporting year.[7]
Despite a nearly 20 percent decline in the number of abortions in the country between 2000 and 2011,[8] the number of abortions Planned Parenthood performed during that time increased from 197,070 to 333,964, thereby more than doubling its share of the abortion market from 15 percent in 2000 to 32 percent in 2011,[9] the latest year for which national data are available.
Planned Parenthood affiliates perform about 20 abortions for every prenatal care visit and about 200 abortions for every adoption referral based on the approximately 300,000 abortions they perform each year.[10]
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States may use their own Medicaid funds to pay for abortion care, and 17 states have a policy (either voluntarily or by court order) requiring the state to cover abortion through its Medicaid program, but just 15 appear to be doing so in practice.
Not 17 states.
I’d argue that the reproductive age starts at 12 years old for girls.
https://www.guttmacher.org/report/restrictions-medicaid-funding-abortions-literature-review
The Hyde Amendment bans the use of federal Medicaid funds for abortions except in cases
Taxpayers pay 4-5 times more to raise indigent families.
K: so make contraceptives free and available to every single man, women and child in America…
Kropotkin
Abortion is an elective surgery, in the sense that it is not strictly necessary and does not embetter one’s health, excepting of course the case of life endangerment. One is “throwing the baby out with the bathwater” by giving up upon hitting one of life’s many obstacles. A foetus is a prospective human being, which if aborted, may leave future benefits and contibutions unrealized.
Every woman in this situation is in part responsible for their situation. They can always elect to use contraceptives. Even when they don’t work, with the sex education available today in the developed world, one can no longer legitimately claim ignorance of the inherent risk in intercourse; in doing so, one is implicitly accepting liability for the repercussions, whether they be sexually-stimulated diseases, abortions or otherwise.
The role of government is to ultimately protect its citizens and perhaps play a limited role in creating equality of opportunity. Either way, this extends beyond its mandate, since abortions neither protect citizens nor help level the playing field; in fact, public funding of abortion is at the expense of funding, for example, university scholarships. The government could otherwise work to pay down the debt and improve our borrowing rate or even provide tax credits to small businesses to create jobs are then lost. The taxpayer is effectively subsidising a practice that fails to either help themselves or other hard-working individuals who are arguably more-deserving than those who elect to abort their babies.
I conclude with some questions: Why shouldn’t the government encourage individuals to overcome, rather than concede to, adversity? What disincentivises people from engaging in potentially harmful behaviour if it is effectively endorsed by the state? When will should individuals be held accountable for their poor decisions? And why should the taxpayer, who has made good decisions in the past, have to bail them out?
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Male Birth Control
Why not? It causes acne. Male vanity on display.
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/11/03/500549503/male-birth-control-study-killed-after-men-complain-about-side-effects
It was a pretty big study; they gave shots to 320 men every eight weeks, in different countries around the world. The shot contained two hormones, and it worked pretty well. It knocked down their sperm counts significantly, and there were only a handful of pregnancies among partners of men in the trial.
But two committees were paying close attention to the study, and they realized that a lot of guys were dropping out because they were experiencing side effects. The most common side effect was acne, and sometimes that acne was pretty severe. Some men also developed mood swings and in some cases those mood swings got pretty bad. One man developed severe depression, and another tried to commit suicide. Because of that, they cut the study short.
Heritage expert Sarah Torre gives all the facts Congress needs to know about Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood has become a billion-dollar organization on the backs of taxpayers. They earned $128 million in revenue with over $1.4 billion in net assets last year. In the same year, federal and state governments gave them over $528 million to fund their lucrative programs.
myheritage.org/news/7-reaso … ent-money/
They should create a better pill then.
phyllo
January 21, 2017, 10:40pm
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K: so make contraceptives free and available to every single man, women and child in America…
Kropotkin
You don’t want that? What the fuck do you want? Do you want the oppressive sexist system where women have to pay for abortions?
Are you a misogynist pig?
I have a problem with people who post other’s people stuff…
Kropotkin
I have a problem with people who post other’s people stuff…
Kropotkin
Not everybody has a lot of time to do all of that or the resources.
I post factual data, deal with it liberal. (Are facts racist and sexist also?
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