Defunding Planned Parenthood. Will it succeed?

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Given the recent exposes of Planned Parenthood and the attention it has garnered, do you think we can be successful in once and for all DE-funding this organization ? What more will it take for the people of this country to finally say “enough is enough” and demand that our tax dollars not go to promoting this oragnizations horrific agenda?
 
Planned Parenthood has powerful support among the elites. I doubt that if you could pin someone like George Bush down and get him to denounce an organization that is this well rooted. They may even deplore the abortions done by the organization, but they think that this is no more than going too far. Contraception, control of the human population–for them this is a desirable aim, and these are principal ends of Planned Parenthood.
 
RobbyS said:
Planned Parenthood has powerful support among the elites. I doubt that if you could pin someone like George Bush down and get him to denounce an organization that is this well rooted. They may even deplore the abortions done by the organization, but they think that this is no more than going too far. Contraception, control of the human population–for them this is a desirable aim, and these are principal ends of Planned Parenthood.
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yes, they speak out of both sides of the mouth! Pray for the change of hearts.
Peace, Carlan
 
I think it will take a long time to see that happen. What we need is a change in hearts and a change in the culture into a culture of life. By changing the culture around us then those institutions will die with or without funding.
 
We can only pray that this organization will brought down. However they get so much support that will make this battle really hard. Lets Pray!
 
RobbyS said:
Planned Parenthood has powerful support among the elites. I doubt that if you could pin someone like George Bush down and get him to denounce an organization that is this well rooted. They may even deplore the abortions done by the organization, but they think that this is no more than going too far. Contraception, control of the human population–for them this is a desirable aim, and these are principal ends of Planned Parenthood.
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When did George Bush get elected to the Senate?? I must have fallen asleep.
 
75% of Planned Parenthood’s clientele are 150% below the poverty line - about $33,000 for a family of four. The largest service it provides is affordable birth control for consenting, impoverished adults. Isn’t there a chance that cutting funding and availability of birth control will resort in even more abortions?

Guttmacher, which tracks statistics on reproductive health and abortion predicts the cut of Title X will result in a 1/3 rise in unplanned pregnancies
 
Nope. Cutting off funding to Planned Parenthood will make people more responsible for their actions, and hopefully make the unmarried persons engaging in premarital sex consider what they are doing.
 
The main demographic is poor, working-class mothers. That’s the example I was using above. What if they are married and not Catholic? What if they are Protestant, and their specific denomination allows the use of contraceptives between a married couple? Why should they not be allowed to?
 
bhall0689 said:
The main demographic is poor, working-class mothers. That’s the example I was using above. What if they are married and not Catholic? What if they are Protestant, and their specific denomination allows the use of contraceptives between a married couple? Why should they not be allowed to?
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No one says they should not be “allowed to”. We as practicing Catholics should not have to pay for it. Defunding these government giveaways, essentially allows people to make any choice they want . We taxpayers just don’t have to fork over our tax dollars to causes that are against our faith teachings.
 
Unfortunately it will not. The Senate likely won’t go along with it, and Mr. Obama would veto any such legislation if it did pass. The Republicans do not have the votes to override a veto.
 
Catholic1954 said:
Nope. Cutting off funding to Planned Parenthood will make people more responsible for their actions, and hopefully make the unmarried persons engaging in premarital sex consider what they are doing.
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Dream on.
 
I pray that it will not succeed. Too many poor women need the services.
 
Personanongrata said:
I pray that it will not succeed. Too many poor women need the services.
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Why do you pray for defunding PP not to succeed? By supporting PP you are supporting the killing of innocent children and the degradation of women.

What benefit and what good comes out of PP that you wish for it to continue to be funded?
 
Catholic1954 said:
Nope. Cutting off funding to Planned Parenthood will make people more responsible for their actions, and hopefully make the unmarried persons engaging in premarital sex consider what they are doing.
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I could not disagree more.
 
Catholic1954 said:
Nope. Cutting off funding to Planned Parenthood will make people more responsible for their actions, and hopefully make the unmarried persons engaging in premarital sex consider what they are doing.
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I disagree. Perhaps some people it will have this affect but not many.
 
Labarum said:
Why do you pray for defunding PP not to succeed? By supporting PP you are supporting the killing of innocent children and the degradation of women.

What benefit and what good comes out of PP that you wish for it to continue to be funded?
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PP provides more than abortion services, and women need access to them. I am one of those women who support Planned Parenthood. “Attack” statements mean nothing to me.
 
If there were a way to defund abortion procedures at PP, I would be in favor of it. And I think getting an elective abortion should cost lots of money. Money talks. Will it prevent all behavior which results in “unintended” unwed pregnancies? No, but I’ll bet it will reduce such behavior, when people realize literally the price they will pay for irresponsibility. (And just because some people on CAF seem to need explicit translations of everything, irresponsibility = unwed sex.) Roe v. Wade did not ensure that abortions would not cost.

I realize that unless insurance companies also stop covering the cost of abortions, any such move is insufficient, but I think idealists have to start thinking pragmatically if they’re going to earn any credibility in actually standing for results, and not just pious gestures. (Like Archbishop Dolan, my goal is fewer abortions in the near term, not the unrealistic instant elimination of them.)

If PP is continuing to provide free/cheap screenings for STD’s, that is actually a good service they can continue to provide, because concern about STD’s is an indirect disincentive to engage in sex. (Just like HIV concern was during the peak of the AIDS crisis, and that concern further led to a preference for abstinence over just cautionary sex.)
 
bhall0689 said:
The main demographic is poor, working-class mothers. That’s the example I was using above. What if they are married and not Catholic? What if they are Protestant, and their specific denomination allows the use of contraceptives between a married couple? Why should they not be allowed to?
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I would think that people who were impoverished would value life even more than those with money…
 
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