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Originally Posted by Robbie
Number one: The Federal Govt. has no business funding these types of things. I don't care what they do.
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It's pretty simple - pay for it now or pay for it later. Young women who do not have medical benefits who need medical assistance have some place to go. This organization, partially funded by the governments, helps people in need.
We shouldn't be discussing not funding Planned Parenthood, but instead we should be asking why there isn't another organization for young men to provide medical assistance when needed.
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Originally Posted by Robbie
Also...Planned Parenthood does indeed "help" with breast cancer. You know how they "help"? Of course you don't. Because you haven't bothered to use Google to find out.
They REFER women to a doctor to get a mammogram. Planned Parenthood doesn't do those.
In other words...most women would simply ask their own gynecologist who to see OR do search for facilities that do mammograms. BUT...some women do go to Planned Parenthood under the mistaken idea that they do them, then they get sent to a place that actually DOES it.
And yes...they still have to use their ObamaCare to pay for it.
Bottom line is...is Planned Parenthood a "good" thing. Yeah, I think so.
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Truth be told, being as I am not a young women in need of medical assistance, I did not know much about Planned Parenthood. So I googled them. I ended up on Wikipedia, which at one point earlier in this thread I quoted word for word when I mentioned their services.
Your comments are strictly from the Republican political side of things, in reference to comments Obama made in a debate some time ago and was fact checked. You are correct, they refer people out to other doctors for mammograms. However, Planned Parenthood helps women pay for mammograms and in some cases cover the costs for them.
But Planned Parenthood does a lot of other things. According to their site, they do 400k pap smears a year, and nearly five million medical tests for STDs and HIV.
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Originally Posted by Robbie
Should the taxpayers being paying for it? Hell no. Our govt. not only should not pay for it, but the govt. has an 18 TRILLION dollar debt and needs to stop spending money.
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Great, let's stop funding all of the nonsense. We should stop all kinds of welfare and social services. I mean, according to you, all of us should be "responsible" and there is no need for the federal or state governments to be providing housing, green stamps, WIC, etc....
Robbie, I don't know you well, but.... I spent my entire weekend working two large charity events I have been a part of for the past few years. Some times people need help. While I have concerns about entire families being raised on welfare and living in section eight housing, sometimes people need short term help. Our government is here to support us, and support those in need; If we can afford to give billions and billions of dollars to other countries surely we can afford $500 million a year for medical support for those in need.