Planned Parenthood Removed from WHP Funding

Women's Health Program (also known as WHP) has been providing a whopping $13.6 million dollars annually to Planned Parenthood. Now the state and the WHP will start to exclude Planned Parenthood all because some of their clinics either did abortions, or recommended abortion clinics to their clients. This was fought with the argument that although the WHP provided a substantial amount of funding, Planned Parenthood stated that they did not use the states funding to execute abortions and furthermore this exclusion based on the affiliates Planned Parenthood has with other abortion clinics is unconstitutional for they have the freedom of speech and freedom of association.

Now in my opinion I do think that Planned Parenthood does more good than bad. Obviously the notion and stereotype we have when we hear 'Planned Parenthood' is babies, and well planning the future. In actuality Planned Parenthood does a lot more than just help planning for future children or directing a female to an abortion clinic. They are also well known for but not limited to breast and cervical cancer screenings, STD testings, birth control, and high blood pressure screenings. I do however believe there should have been a happy medium; a way to regulate the funding given to P.P. and make sure its not going towards abortion or anything of the nature. Stated in the article, this cut will affect almost half of the Women that go through the Women Health Program since about half go through Planned Parenthood. I do believe rather than completely de-funding P.P, they could have taken away 3% which was the percentage given that they supposedly use to do abortion type planning.

All in all I feel this is a huge mistake given the fact that 49 clinics will be closed down, and logically speaking it will be very difficult to find new clinics to provide for these uninsured Women who live in Texas. Along with that, I feel taking away full funding is a little dramatic given the fact that Planned Parenthood is so widely used not only for future mommies and children, but gives other amenities as well, other amenities that 49 different clinics will no longer be able to perform because of this decision.