KCFlyer
Veteran
So you WEREN'T talking about abortion? Are you kidding me?
I was talking about what "defunding" Planned Parenthood would do. I don't believe that abortion should be used as a form of birth control, but the govenrment funding that they get (outside of Medicaid payments) does not fund abortions. It funds contraception. But if the battle cry is "defund planned parenthood", then you are going to have a lot of babies being born. I was raised Catholic. We were taught abortion is a sin and we were taught contraception is a sin. But go into any Catholic church on a Sunday morning, and 90% of the women there are on birth control, have had their tubes tied, or have a husband with a vasectomy. But they'll still march on abortion clinics.
So...if a woman who WANTED to get well woman exams and who WANTED to get contraceptives can't get them anymore. Because we "defunded planned parenthood". But I found something out a long long time ago. Sex is fun. Sex feels good. I had sex when neither the woman or I could afford a kid. I'll be you did too. And something crazy about those hormones - they kind of make you make a "poor choice". Taking contraceptives away from a woman who WANTED them is NOT going to take away the desire for sex. Taking contraceptives away from a woman who WANTED them in a misguided attempt to stop abortions is going to result in two things - MORE abortions and MORE babies from women who made "poor choices". And I could be all for defunding planned parenthood if someone like you or LA could tell me what we do with the babies that get produced. Contraceptives are a helluva lot cheaper than taking care of a baby.