good deeds ~ stand with planned parenthood
as i'm sure many of you in the united states have heard, the house of representatives just voted to ban planned parenthood from all federal funding, and it is now headed to the senate. i try to keep politics off my blog since it's such an enraging issue in so many ways, but i just couldn't let this one slip by. how absurd is it that the government is taking away funding from one of the best organizations our country has?! how can they care so little about the one in five women who receives health services from planned parenthood for a wide range of health issues?! 90% of the health care provided for women, children, and even men, at planned parenthood is for birth control, prenatal care, cancer screenings, hiv screenings, and educational services, to name a few. if this bill gets passed, these vital and affordable services will be removed from public access.
of all the stupid, selfish, corrupt things our government does, this has got to be at the top. i'm so shocked and angered by this, that i'm having a hard time writing out the numerous benefits of planned parenthood in a clear and concise way. so if you are not educated on how important planned parenthood is, please take the 1:27 minutes of your time to watch this. as you'll see, it's women and families just like you and yours that will be hurt by this bill:
for most low income and middle class families all across the united states, both in rural areas and inner cities, planned parenthood is the only place to which they can turn for preventative health care and prenatal care. we desperately need planned parenthood to survive, but we must all stand together. even if you have never received treatment, nor needed it, from planned parenthood, please don't turn your back on your fellow women who rely on it for numerous medical services.
i can also say, on a personal note, that when i worked at an inner city san francisco high school last year, we referred dozens of students to planned parenthood to receive free, confidential health care. many of them needed assistance to be treated after abuse, to receive prenatal care, and to become educated on safe health practices {none of these issues involved abortions by the way}. for many of them, it was unsafe to go to their parents {who were often the ones causing the health problems in the first place}, and they had no one to which they could turn for assistance paying medical bills. planned parenthood was the only place where they could receive the much needed medical assistance on a high schooler's paycheck.
i can also say, on a personal note, that when i worked at an inner city san francisco high school last year, we referred dozens of students to planned parenthood to receive free, confidential health care. many of them needed assistance to be treated after abuse, to receive prenatal care, and to become educated on safe health practices {none of these issues involved abortions by the way}. for many of them, it was unsafe to go to their parents {who were often the ones causing the health problems in the first place}, and they had no one to which they could turn for assistance paying medical bills. planned parenthood was the only place where they could receive the much needed medical assistance on a high schooler's paycheck.
so please head over to the i stand with planned parenthood page where you can learn more, give a donation, or find out how your representative voted on this bill {found in the "learn more" tab}.
and if nothing else, please stand up for planned parenthood and sign the petition to keep federal funding in place!
if you want to hear what others have to say on this issue...
check out the post that lauryn, from laureality, wrote.
i also LOVED what this gal had to say on the subject here.
