Supporters rally for Planned Parenthood funding

Planned Parenthood is very much NOT a necessity! We should be putting more focus on better parenting and better education. Those things are necessity. I good set of parents can teach their children to make good choices. A good education can teach these children the importance of making good choices. All PParenthood does is encourage the bad behavior. No wonder so many politicians voted their funds away. It's not up to the tax payer to provide bailouts for teen girls who don't care enough about themselves to take care of themselves. As a tax payer I am sick of bailouts.

I'll say it again. It's really too bad that these people aren't fighting for better education funding. Maybe with a better education system, which would include sexual health education, people can make good decisions and we wouldn't need Planned Parenthood as much. Everyone has a right to their bodies and yes I get that, but kids have the right to a good education. And about planning a good life for a kid, any parent knows that no amount of planning prepares you to have kids. That's just foolishness to even say that. The best parents can raise a kid with the best of intentions and still that kid will go off and do stupid things. It doesn't matter how "ready" you are. I've seen street kids become big names in a respectable fashion and kids who were "planned" become drug addicts. Life throws you curve balls and you've gotta roll with the punches. That being said, educate and you hopefully won't need this stuff as much.

bigscottk --- The reason is, is because this is not the issue of when life begins. This is about funding for planned parenthood and what they do with the money.

Here's your answer,bigscottk: An organism is living when it has blood flowing to it and is functioning.So,just like tumors that live in the body and can attach itself to human organs and grow and eventually take over a human body and kill it-a fetus is a living organism-just like tumors,just like amoebas,just like tapeworms.So I call "hypocrite" whenever I see pro-lifers hide behind the "when life begins" B.S. and yet I don't see the same pro-lifers picketing people who go in for cancer treatment and have a tumor removed from their body.A tumor's a living organism,too,geniuses-how about we use the pro-life line of reasoning and grant the tumor some rights,too?After all,until a fetus is BORN it is just a clump of cells DEPENDENT UPON a carrier,just like a tumor is,or a tapeworm.Furthermore,in case you don't understand why so many pro-choice folks ignore your ignorant question about defining when life begins is because MORALS DON'T MATTER WHEN DETERMINING THE LAW.That's right,I know it hurts your little,religious feelings to hear this,but the LAW (which at present moment allows abortions) can only apply to PEOPLE-NOT tumors, NOT clumps of cells with "potential" - to PEOPLE-real,live,ALREADY BORN people.The LAW doesn't care when life begins,and quite frankly the law doesn't care that YOU care when life begins.The law can only grant RIGHTS to PEOPLE.Furthermore, the law has to contend with this issue where (to some) it appears that one person is living inside another person-which could create ambiguities in granting rights (i.e. who's rights prevail, the mother's or the fetuses,when the rights of each are in direct conflict-as in the case of an abortion?) And the law is very clear that the living,already-born mother's rights prevail over those of a parasitic clump of cells.I'll stop calling pro-lifers hypocrites the day there are absolutely no babies left to be adopted in the ENTIRE WORLD.Because that's always pro-lifers solution: don't abort - put it up for ADOPTION!

One thing I noticed in all of the replies that were posted in regards to my first post is that not one person took on the main part of my post. I said "Here's a question I'll poise to anyone who supports abortion (note: this is a question that abortion supporters hate and dodge saying it's irrelevant): When does life begin? At conception? When there are brain waves and a heartbeat? When the baby can survive outside of the womb? If you answer anything other then at conception how can you decide when the "magical" moment is when life begins?" Posters danced all around that part and talked about "women's rights" and such. Posters also talked about the other "services" PP provides but no one mentioned the rights of the unborn. Thus I ask this question. Since when does one person's rights extend so far as to take the innocent life of another? BTW Tlincali- I have studied biology & spent several years working with animals doing animal husbandry in various forms and fashions so I have a pretty good base in following the course of gestation. Also, we have six children so I've seen many, many sonograms and listened to a pretty fair amount of fetal heart monitors from shortly after conception up till birth in my wife's nine pregnancies (we lost three unborn babies). I would say that with all my experience that I am qualified to speak on this topic. Once again, please someone tell me when life begins. I really want to hear your response!

Uhh Family Planning services include keeping your sex organs healthy and infection free, for when you do decide to engage in sex or carry a pregnancy to term. That's right, Wichitan's utilize the services that Planned Parenthood offer for tiny little problems like Urinary Tract Infections and Yeast Infections not ONLY pregnancy prevention. If you've ever had a UTI from not being able to relieve yourself and drink enough fluids due to your work situation, You'd be thankful to PP who will see you in a timely fashion, give you a prescription, and make you pay based on a sliding fee scale.. I'm thankful to Planned Parenthood. They also perform PAP smears that are the leading preventative test for detection of cervical cancer, which is a very deadly disease that ONLY Women get.

BIGSCOTTK- I use to be PRO LIFE until I learned the facts, and had many of my friends and myself become pregnant. That can change your perspective. I did research for myself and found out the truth and now am Pro Choice. I guess you being a man, don't ever have to have that experience though.,...

Also no tax dollars go towards abortion. AND how the heck would a person be able to get birth control if there wasn't funding for it?!?! You think Pharm companies will just hand out BC for anyone who wants it?

I have used planned parenthood's services several times. Birth Control in College, and also when I was having a miscarriage. They were the ONLY Doctor's office that would squeeze me in on a Friday. They were the only Doctor's office that gave me advice and support. I cannot express how important that was at the time. Planned Parenthood has MY full support because of MY experiences there!

@bigscottk That is just one big pack of lies you have there. Perhaps you should take an actual biology course. Education does wonders for that stupidity you are showing. There is no such thing as pro abortion. It is pro choice. You know letting the PERSON (for those that don't know women are people too) decide what they want to do with their body, their life. It is their risk. Any one who thinks abortion should not be allowed wants forced birthing on women. Taking all rights to their body away and keeping most stuck in poverty. In other words people want to enslave women just so they can feel better about something that has nothing to do with them.