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
any information was from, is anywhere from 0 to 3,100… now
they broke it up to most abortions cost around $500 as we are talking about
most people who are getting these abortions are poor and unable to pay $500 dollars for
an abortion… that is the simple facts… we pay for abortions because most women who
need it can’t afford it…if you have money, you don’t need planned parenthood…
which by the way, less then 10% of their spending is on abortions, the vast part
of their work is in health care like mammograms and other aspects of health,
not in abortions…closing down planned parenthood means millions of people
not being able to get health care…if we force women to keep the babies
and then gut the programs that allow them to ability to clothe and feed and
shelter those infants, then we are killing those children because their parents
can’t afford the basic stuff of survival for these children…
this is why…
Kropotkin
phyllo
(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
any information was from, is anywhere from 0 to 3,100… now
they broke it up to most abortions cost around $500 as we are talking about
most people who are getting these abortions are poor and unable to pay $500 dollars for
an abortion… that is the simple facts… we pay for abortions because most women who
need it can’t afford it…
Contraception costs money but abortion is free. Which would you choose?
Those “poor” women are smarter than you.
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
of life endangerment, rape or incest. In addition, as of 2008, 32 states and the District of
Columbia had prohibited the use of their state Medicaid funds for abortions except in the
limited cases allowed under the Amendment.
• A literature search identified 38 studies of the impact of these laws on a range of outcomes.
• Approximately one-fourth of women who would have Medicaid-funded abortions instead give
birth when this funding is unavailable.
• Medicaid restrictions lead to a reduction in the proportion of teenage pregnancies that end in
abortion, but the long-term effect on the birthrate is less clear.
• Such restrictions appear to delay some women having abortions by 2–3 weeks and Medicaideligible
women having first-trimester abortions by a few days on average; the net impact on
second-trimester procedures is unclear.
• Studies have found little evidence that lack of Medicaid funding has resulted in illegal
abortions, although one death was directly related to the restrictions and two were
indirectly related.
• Studies of the impact of Medicaid restrictions on other outcomes—sexual behavior, prematurity,
low birth weight, fatal injuries to children, late or no prenatal care, suicide and number
of abortion providers—suffer from methodological limitations and are inconclusive, although
there is some evidence of adverse effects on child health.
• The additional public cost of prenatal care, delivery services and welfare totals 4–5 times the
amount saved by not paying for Medicaid abortions.
• Many studies were limited by the weakness of data sources and inability to control for unmeasured
factors that influence trends in abortion rates and birthrates. Although short-term
impacts of Medicaid restrictions have been demonstrated, the long-term impact is less clear
and difficult to measure
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…
have a vending machine on every street corner dispensing contraceptives to everyone, no charge…
and problem solved…
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.
Planned Parenthood performs one in three abortions in the U.S. They reported performing 327,653 abortions last year. Former employees have even made allegations that there are mandatory “abortion quotas” each affiliate must meet.
Planned Parenthood emphasizes abortions instead of preventative care. They made only 1,880 adoption referrals and just 18,684 prenatal services last year. Even cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood have decreased 50 percent since 2004.
Planned Parenthood has been accused of financial fraud with taxpayer dollars. In 2013, an affiliate payed a settlement of over $4 million to Texas for Medicaid fraud. Similar investigations revealed over $8 million in possible fraud across nine states.
Planned Parenthood fights laws that protect women and children. They have opposed legislation that would protect infants born alive after failed abortions and tried to derail an anti-human trafficking bill because the legislation included a longstanding and widely-supported policy against taxpayer funding of abortion.
Planned Parenthood stands accused of jeopardizing the health and safety of women and girls. They have been accused by pro-life advocacy groups of abetting the sex trafficking of minor girls and at least four affiliates have been similarly accused of neglecting the health and safety of patients.
Women can receive wider range of care at other centers. In addition to roughly 1,200 federally qualified health clinics there are over 2,000 pregnancy centers that provide medical testing, prenatal care, ultrasounds and child-birth classes, among other services to women facing unplanned pregnancies.
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They should create a better pill then.
phyllo
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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…
have a vending machine on every street corner dispensing contraceptives to everyone, no charge…
and problem solved…
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…
apparently Merlin has no thoughts of his own, so he “borrow” other
people thinking… posting other’s people stuff is just a very, very lazy
way to post here… try real words coming from you… or are you just
so impotent you don’t have any real thoughts… inquiring minds want to know…
Kropotkin
I have a problem with people who post other’s people stuff…
apparently Merlin has no thoughts of his own, so he “borrow” other
people thinking… posting other’s people stuff is just a very, very lazy
way to post here… try real words coming from you… or are you just
so impotent you don’t have any real thoughts… inquiring minds want to know…
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? )