01-22-2017, 06:50 PM
(01-22-2017, 05:18 PM)sally Wrote: 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.
Well, as I said, I don't believe that the types of health services that 1 in 5 women have been getting from PP for decades would be of equal quality and efficiency if the same funding money was given to overburdened health departments (or other general public health providers).
To make a change from something that works well and affects millions of women simply to punish an organization for providing legal private-pay abortions, thereby purposely making it more difficult for women to get abortions........ is both bad from a business perspective and wrong from an ethical perspective, in my opinion.
We just disagree on the importance of women's rights; not a problem. It's irrelevant to me that you and others believe that everyone who gets an abortion is a heathen, irresponsible, or poor. Even if that were true, I'd disagree with you that it's no big deal and just a bunch of bitches yapping.
Anyway, maybe you'll get your wish and a lot of women who can't afford the travel, can't get the time off, or don't have someone to help them get to and from a non-local professional abortion provider will just have unplanned/unwanted children (like what's happened in Texas), or they'll attempt to abort in non-medical or risky ways.
I hope not and support women who are collectively making their objections heard. But, we'll see if Trump really lets Ryan do it and whether the Trump administration attempts to overturn Roe v Wade when a new Supreme Court Justice is in place (as Pence has made clear he intends to do).