Quoted from Box A Rox

One in five American women has received care from a Planned Parenthood health center during her lifetime, and last year three million patients came to one of our more than 800 health centers.  

Women are voting for Planned Parenthood... they are voting with their preferred use of PP's facilities.

Quoted from senders

and Cicero dont get into the abortion crap
of minorities .....

Quoted from CICERO

I never mentioned minorities.  

Quoted from senders

maybe it was henry or one of the others on another thread.....it was a video posted...I thought you did.....it was quite a while ago....I think springtime.....or maybe winter....

Quoted from Box A Rox

My posts are about abortion in general, not just PP.  I offered a historic view of abortion that it isn't just a modern day procedure.
Again, the government doesn't fund abortion.  Abortion services at PP are privately funded... but many other necessary services are partially govt funded.  Cancer screening, birth control, AIDS & STD information and treatment... all necessary services.  Necessary to women, not to Conservatives who cut those funds.

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Planned Parenthood has received federal funding since 1970, when President Richard Nixon signed into law the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act, amending the Public Health Service Act. Title X of that law provides funding for family planning services, including contraception and family planning information. The law enjoyed bipartisan support from liberals who saw contraception access as increasing families' control over their lives, and conservatives who saw it as a way to keep people off welfare. Nixon described Title X funding as based on the premise that "no American woman should be denied access to family planning assistance because of her economic condition."[40]

In the 2007–08 Annual Report, clinic income totaled $374.7 million and miscellaneous operating revenues $68.9 million.[41] Approximately two-thirds of the revenue is put towards the provision of health services, while non-medical services such as sex education and public policy work make up another 16%; management expenses, fundraising, and international family planning programs account for most of the rest.
Planned Parenthood headquarters on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C.

Planned Parenthood receives about a third of its money in government grants and contracts (about $360 million in 2009).[42] By law, federal funding cannot be allocated for abortions,[43] but some opponents of abortion have argued that allocating money to Planned Parenthood for the provision of other medical services "frees up" funds to be re-allocated for abortion.[44][45]

Quoted from 147

No, technically the govt doesn't "fund abortions" ...




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood



There is no proof, that I've seen, to indicate a DIRECT funding of abortion, but there's $ flowing into them from the govt - there's almost no way to prove that money ISN'T being channeled to the abortion side.  

Why are we funding them at all?

Quoted from 55tbird

Population control...But with dwindling resources, I think all facets of population control should be discussed including "wanted" children.

Quoted from bumblethru

Medicaid????

Abortion is an abomination and attack on the very core of human civilization......by murdering society's most innocent, pure and vulnerable.

Quoted from Box A Rox

Bumble
That is your opinion.  The supreme court of the USA disagrees with that opinion.  So do most Americans.

Quoted from Box A Rox

IMO yes.  There is a huge problem of girls (and boys) with insufficient family planning knowledge. (Bristol Palin) Many of these kids are in families who will never discuss anything about birth control or sex with their kids.  

PP is an important resource for kids looking for reliable information.  Knowledge is power... in this case, the power to make good decisions about their future.  Good decisions promote less unwanted pregnancies and less abortion.

Quoted from Box A Rox

Unborn babies???
Really?  

When Cicero eats eggs for breakfast, he's really eating chicken. (we all know it isn't chicken, but Cicero doesn't)
Then for lunch he slices up a tomato seed adds some lettuce seeds, and throws in a few cucumber seeds  some water and soil and he has a salad.
For dinner he eats boar sperm mixed with some sow eggs, and calls it ham.  MMM! (Cicero loves his 'ham')