Indiana cuts off Planned ParenthoodFollow

Planned Parenthood provides community health services. Mostly to young people and/or poorer people. If Indiana decides that the organization, over-all was not providing the outcomes that were expected then pull funding or fix the program. But that's not what happened here. Funding was not pulled because the service wasn't working as intended. It was pulled because Planned Parenthood provided a controversial service. That's stupid.

If Indiana now has an outbreak of syphilis, some might conclude that the absence of easy, cheap std testing/treatment was a root cause. Who knows.

We taxpayers spent an awful lot of money on h1n1 testing and vaccine over the last couple years. Is that justified?

Btw, when I was a teen I used the local PP for my birth control bills. They weren't free. I had to pay for them but I got a good price. I also had to have, and pay for, a little physical before I could get on them.

I hate to nitpick, but it's Medicaid, not Medicare; old folk don't need no abortions!


I'm working under the assumption that they can still get federally-subsidized health care from other providers, right? Which kind of begs the question that Moe pointed out, which is why this is such a huge fiasco, unless PP is literally the only health care provider that accepts Medicaid in a particular area (which I highly doubt).

I always get the two confused. :/



I've already addressed that. What I heard about this on the radio is that this displaces 26,000 women, and the centers available will be completely overwhelmed and unable to meet the demand. That, and the lady they inverviewed who uses PP's services tried to visit one of the other health centers that the person who introduced the bill said could handle these services, and they told her they do not do pap smears and breast exams.

Of course, the suggestion that PP stop offering a legal service because the religious right is in charge in Indiana and they get pissy about it and want to impose their will on the public, that's just silly. They're doing nothing wrong. If anyone is making this a political issue, it's the people putting forward these bills.

Obviously I thought it did, or I wouldn't have bothered. Alitardif was putting forth that people were only concerned about this because PP would shut down. I was explaining the real concern.

Also, go troll someone else.

Thank you.



Exactly. It's disturbing, because these people don't give a shit about women's health, just their own religious agenda.

I'm not trolling you, I just didn't think he was stupid enough to think PP was getting shut down.

Why do you doubt it? A lot of physicians don't accept government insurance programs and, of the ones that do, not all are able to accept new patients. I won't play the "literally" game but it's hardly a leap of faith to say this could cause significant hardship.

Also PP's are usually located in the neighborhoods with their clientele and therefore accessible where other medical facilities might not be.

Again, cutting off of funding is not about efficient use of tax dollars. Three million dollars is couch change. This is an attack on abortions.

And poor people, don't forget that.

You know what they say: beggars can't be choosers. It's pretty tough to sell the high horse with your hand out.

Silly? How so? I mean, I've read Ms. Sanger's own words on the subject, but if you've special insight on the founding I'd love to read it.

They got them N'ola darkies but good!