The war on Planned Parenthood has intensified over the past 5 years by anti-abortion/pro-life groups. They consider Planned Parenthood a place against their religion, kill innocent children and lure teenagers into sex for their business. “Planned Parenthood is one of the most insidious organizations in the country,” says Ann Scheidler, co-founder of the Pro-Life Action League. "Since its founding, it has sought to undermine the integrity of the family, to facilitate immoral behavior... and to induce adolescents into truly risky behavior. It is largely responsible for the collapse of morality in the country" (Mendoza, 2 ). All of this can be found on a website called stopp.org. It's a website for a pro-life Christian organization and their plan to stop Planned Parenthood. On another anti-Planned Parenthood website they wrote: Do you know that there is a holocaust going on all over the world right now? We are not talking about war, crime or political oppression. Those are tiny in comparison. The greatest violation of human rights on earth today is the killing of young children while still living in the womb, commonly referred to as abortion. On July 14, 2015, a Pro Life group called the Center for Medical Progress released videos “proving” that Planned Parenthood profits from the sale of aborted parts of fetal tissue. It depicted a Planned Parenthood official callously discussing how to abort a fetus while preserving its organs for medical research in front of two anti-abortion activists posing as scientists (Somashekhar & Paquette, 2015). In August, a private research firm concluded that the videos had been deceptively edited and did not “present a complete or accurate record of the events they purported to depict” (Calmes, 2015).” These too......middle of paper......ntrol. Medicaid would cover some of those births, the report said, and some of those children would be eligible for Medicaid and other welfare programs. The office's calculations: Stopping federal funding for Planned Parenthood would reduce spending by $520 million in the short term — but, over the first decade, it would cost taxpayers another $650 million. If Planned Parenthood were cut, many repercussions could be harmful. Teen pregnancy rates will increase, sexually transmitted diseases will increase, and deaths from illegal and unsafe abortions may increase. When Planned Parenthood closed in Indiana, Scott County was hit by an HIV epidemic. Planned Parenthood was the county's only HIV testing site and, due to intravenous drug use, saw an explosion of the disease in 2015. According to the Chicago Tribune, more than 150 new cases were reported in the small county of 23,000 inhabitants.
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