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Originally Posted by Robbie
Wait a minute...I thought that ObamaCare covered everybody. If you were "too poor" to pay for you own insurance...the govt. subsidizes it for you.
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Although we now have more Americans than ever before who have healthcare, ten percent of Americans do not have healthcare. You have to remember that at any given point in time, a certain percentage of people will not have healthcare - college students, people unemployed, homeless, people in transition.
One would imagine that the people most likely to use Planned Parenthood would be the same people who would most likely not have healthcare.
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Originally Posted by Robbie
And there was a crazy thing that people used to believe back when I was young: It was called "Personal responsibility".
What a strange concept.
People could actually use birth control methods instead of just fucking bareback with no birth control pill or condom. And then NOT have children that they can't afford.
Then there would be zero chance of anybody having to "suffer" as you put it.
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I would argue just the opposite really. When "our generation" was younger there was no "personal responsibility" and birth control was rather limited and difficult to get. Our generation created latchkey children and single parents and saw the rise of HIV and AIDS.
And telling people not to have babies they cannot afford is a bit silly. It's not that people cannot afford to have babies, but more that they don't want to. For some people they might believe they are two young or too focused on their careers, yet others might be older, married, and maybe they just don't want another kid. Yet other people are not married and do not want to have a child out of wedlock, or perhaps they don't want to have a child with their current mate for what ever reason.
Also, birth control is not 100% effective. What if you are on birth control, did everything right, and still had a baby?
These are highly personal decisions that people need to make - but someone else's beliefs should not decide what a young woman does with their body.
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Originally Posted by Robbie
Also...I would like to point out that the govt. de-funding Planned Parenthood would NOT "deep six" it.
The company makes plenty of money and would still continue to operate just fine. Some of the high paid executives of Planned Parenthood might have to scale back their huge salaries and their lifestyle a bit though.
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I don't know how much Planned Parenthood makes or how much their management staff makes. Just seems to me like it should be common sense our government should support an organization that helps people who fall through the cracks. Help them now, or pay to support them later.
If we want to have a serious argument about if the government should financially support Planned Parenthood, we should have that discussion for the right reasons - not because a group of people who do not believe in abortion made a video using a prematurely born baby while claiming it was an abortion while an imaginary doctor's voice says "let's keep the baby alive so we can use it's heart". This video was a complete fabrication and it's stunning that people believe it.