01-22-2017, 05:18 PM
(01-22-2017, 01:27 AM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: More than 90% of the public specialized services PP provides are women's health and family support services via government funding. A very small portion of their business is private abortions, but they are one of very view abortion providers in this country.
The PP organization couldn't likely stay afloat on private abortion services only, sally. That's the sole reason the religious and far right is always pushing to defund PP's separate public health services - they want to put PP out of business because PP is the biggest of the few abortion providers. The far right politicians want to make it difficult for some and impossible for others to access legal and professional abortion services.
Even if you take the private-pay abortions out of the equation, as I said, pushing specialized women's/family clinic care into the overburdened snail-paced county general systems would, in my experience and opinion, be a bad business decision in terms of quality and cost (a bad decision driven only by the desire of some to push their religious and moral mandates onto others).
It's not just health departments that offer health services to women at low to no cost. Imaging centers, health clinics, basic low cost insurance and hospitals also offer it. I do not believe that women's health will suffer if pp is defunded. I do believe that abortions will be harder to get, but there will still be providers. I'd rather see the money go to children who need health care.