GRRR (politics related)...

kclouts

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20110408/ts_yblog_theticket/abortion-becomes-flashpoint-in-shutdown-battle

hikingnclimbing

As someone who goes to PP and someone who has family members who wouldn't be able to get services elsewhere, I am so mad about it. When I was in college, it was the only way I could even remotely afford to get preventative services that ensured I wouldn't be a bigger burden on the health care system later. WTF.

Interrobang

Gawd. 

I just have no words.

Actually, I have quite a few words. I grew up pretty religious so I heard a LOT of anti-PP propaganda from friends and their parents. From what I heard growing up you'd think that the moment you walked through the doors you'd be greeted with, "o hai, abortion is totally awesome and everyone should have lots of them, lolz!"  

When I graduated from college and had no insurance but wanted to look after my reproductive health, I started going there. 

It was affordable when I had no insurance, takes my current insurance, and I like the NP there. I have a weird, cranky cervix and was having some problems associated with that (TMI, sorry!!) and they were not only extremely helpful but so reassuring. I have learned a lot there actually. They have been a great help to me over the past few years including providing me with affordable birth control which has undoubtedly prevented me from being in the position of having an unplanned pregnancy and the decisions that go with it.  

So I'm pretty p!ssed that people want to de-fund it (esp. over what is essentially a religious issue). PP is not simply a place to get abortions, and most of the people who are anti-PP who I know don't seem to "get" that, nor do they want to get it.  

And really, our gov't is going to shut down over this? FAIL, Washington. Big fat flipping FAIL.  

/rantypants 

danieleandwayne

One of these days, people will realize that the Founding Fathers were not just joking around about that whole "separation of Church and state" thing... They understood it when they repealed Prohibition (of course, I suspect it was because the men realized it was easier to get women into bed when they're drunk)...

Mrs.ErikaMay

It's called Planned PARENTHOOD, not Planned Abortion. They provide resources and services for women looking to plan their journey into parenthood the way they want. Yes, sometimes abortion is part of that (which as the article clearly states, isn't part of the funding in question) and sometimes it's about birth control, and reproductive help, and probably information if people WANT to get pregnant.

I'm so tired of them all- Boner (yeah, I know I didn't spell it how he does) and Reid and all of them can go take a long walk off a short pier for all I care.  They are overpaid, underworking DBs. The government does less and less except manage to approve their own ridonkulous pay raises every year before their extended vacations/ "breaks."

I plan to continue to express my disatisfaction with my vote.  My father and I have opposing political views most of the time, but there is one philosophy we generally both abide by- we vote for whoever is the new guy. Almost never the incumbent, not unless they are the true lesser evil, have done a great job (I can't remember ever using THAT measure as of late), or as with this past election year when it helps to balance out the crazy.  I voted R senate because it was leaning too far D overall.  The balance would be great... if only the two sides could see the benefits of work TOGETHER to acheive a middle ground instead of acting worse than my toddler. And there are far too many of them sitting around long-term, getting fat and further and further away from the people they are supposed to be representing.

grahamsm3

I have never been to PP specifically, but have have gone to both the ACAP and Penquis health centers. Really useful, cheap, and the free BCP was great all through college.

Can someone tell me b/c I am to lazy to research on my own, why is it specifically PP who is targeted for loss of funding? or is it not specifically PP, but any reproductive health clinic that gets federal monies? Is PP more federally funded than CAP agency health centers? Is PP a private business that receives fed. money? If it is then it seems the same as CAP clinics, except that I know of you can't get an abortion at a CAP clinic - but there is already no federal funding for abortion right? Are they looking to cut funding from any clinic that gets federal money and provides abortion? Then the question is if a hospital provides an abortion and gets federal money will they be cut off?

If anyone can give me insight to any of the 100 questions I just tossed out there that would be great.

Mainer-in-Texas

I am extremely pro-life and this totally pisses me off! De-funding Planned Parenthood will do nothing to reduce abortions. It could potentially increase abortions! UGH! I hate how some people on the right use and make up lies about Planned Parenthood to rally their base. It's disgusting.