#defund pp

[mugiwara-lucy]

I find it ironic how Vance was talking how women don't trust him or Trump (Harris has a THIRTY TWO POINT LEAD amongst Women) but THIS came out NO LESS than a week later:

So....his way to get women to trust him is to.....defund Planned Parenthood? And PP helps with not just Abortion Healthcare but it provides basic health care to millions of women, including birth control, cancer screenings & STI testing. Also keep in mind that Trump said he will delegate women's health to RFK JR:

While you all sit on that horror, here is the link below to register to vote along with the deadlines varying by state! Also, your own vote isn’t enough! Get as many people as you can to vote for Kamala be it your friends, cousins, parents, grandparents, old friends from high school and college, coworkers, boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands, wives, stepchildren (if they’re 18 and over) and the list goes on and on but every vote counts! ALSO PLEASE check your registration DAILY because MAGA WILL purge your voter registration!!!

And early voting has started! And if you don’t wanna vote on November 5th, Early Voting is another option! Like I said get as many people as you know and try early voting that way you can avoid MAGA fuckery on November 5th! Here’s the link down below listing the dates by state:

And Mail in Ballots are ANOTHER option I highly recommend!! And like I said get as many people as you can to take advantage of this option! BUT if you decide to go with Mail In/Absentee Ballots; PLEASE mail your ballots at the ACTUAL USPS office!! That way MAGAts won't fuck with it.

And if you’re an American who lives overseas; PLEASE use the option of voting overseas since I know every country other than North Korea, Russia and China do NOT want to see Trump’s stinky ass back in the Oval Office! Here’s a link below:

But note he said he's going to EARN Women's trust not say anything about apologizing or making amends for the disgusting shit he's said about women; i.e. "Childless Cat Ladies", being disgusted by teachers without children and the list can go on and on.

But Vance, if you see this, just know the way you get trust back after losing it (if you can) is to make amends by bettering yourself and not making the same mistakes again.

What you are is disingenuous and you want to get back what you lost. And P.S: You're gonna get a reckoning come ROEVEMBER! FUCK YOU AND FUCK TRUMP!!

[mytrasheden]

Oh my not the rhetorics of "since women of colors were and are being subjected to sterilization and eugenic-prompted forced abortion we should not support [insert an abortion and reproductive healthcare provider that does absolutely more good than bad CURRENTLY]"

Y'all really don't realize how much this is the same as the conspiring argument pro-lifers use to defund care, especially care from very effective systems like PP? You can both remember the history of forced sterilization and the fuckups certain facilities still do and acknowledge the current impact and changes in organizations with ties to such history, you know?

Also on that tangent as a WOC from the deep South with an absolute abhorrent governor and a Red strong hold (though it's getting bluer by day), for me y'all don't seem to care about how reproductive healthcare availability and the fight for legislature in the South are, especially again to keep the choices opened for WOC. It's such a privileged purist view and y'all aren't doing as much good as you think.

Hey, I've seen a lot of people saying that you should support smaller-scale abortion facilities instead of spending on Planned Parenthood because, according to them, PP already has plenty of money.

While I totally support donating to local abortion care facilities, I think it's really dangerous to be spreading around misinformation about Planned Parenthood, so here are a list of reasons that Planned Parenthood is a really worthwhile resource right about now:

Planned Parenthood has a large legal fund and they know how to use it. Not only will they work on-the-ground to provide reproductive health services, they will work on the legislative level in every state to fight the legal battles that are about to become very fucking necessary. Donate directly to abortion services, yes - but if you want to protect the legality of abortion and the right to privacy in the doctor's office, Planned Parenthood's legal team will fight in the places where you, as an individual, cannot.

I've heard some people saying that Planned Parenthood actually does damage to the reproductive justice community because they "take up all the talking space" and then they'll say "well, abortion is only a small amount of what Planned Parenthood does" thus stigmatizing abortion. While I can't speak for every PP facility, in my experience during my volunteer trainings, THIS IS MISINFORMATION. Outside supporters of PP will say this ABOUT Planned Parenthood, but at my volunteer trainings the workers actually had us do spoken activities to de-stigmatize abortion for anyone who needed it. We were given multiple "abortion is good, actually" talks.

On that note, the things PP does aside from abortion are actually very important. One thing they do is distribute INFORMATION on a widespread scale. This information will often focus on important things to know about pregnancy health, when abortion might be needed, and communicative campaigns to spread abortion stories with specific participants' consent in order to de-stigmatize abortion and spread awareness.

A number of smaller "Pregnancy Crisis Centers" disguise themselves as abortion providers, but are really fundamentalist Christian centers in disguise. These centers will abuse and psychologically torture people who were planning on coming in for abortions. However, a Planned Parenthood is always what it says it will be. I support Planned Parenthood because I know exactly what my money is going to when I make donations.

If you do know of a smaller abortion facility that needs funding, by all means, donate! (Also if you go on PP's website you can choose a PP facility to fund directly, if you don't want your donation to go into their large legal fund.) But if you're supporting a smaller center, do make sure that they really are a legitimate abortion provider before you donate.

Let's not spread misinformation or be divisive, people! That will only hurt reproductive justice, in the end. If you want to support small-scale abortion care centers, absolutely do that. It will be very much needed in the coming months. But you can do that without dunking on Planned Parenthood and all that they do for reproductive rights, justice, and healthcare. It is entirely possible to be supportive of both.

[kgreen200]

Sandra Merritt Might Get PP DEFUNDED!

Jan 8, 2025

In 2015, our client Sandra Merritt set off a fire storm when her undercover videos were released. Those videos showed Planned Parenthood officials and doctors openly bragging about performing late-term abortions and haggling over butchered baby part prices as part of their gruesome but very profitable human organ trafficking scheme.

The videos were so horrific, so damning, that multiple states moved to BAN any state tax dollars from going to the multinational abortion giant. But Planned Parenthood wasn’t going to take such a massive loss of income sitting down. Instead, their high-priced attorneys started suing the states that had banned public funding of the abortion giant’s gristmills.

The U.S. Supreme Court has now stepped in, announcing it will hear Kerr v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. Liberty Counsel is already preparing briefs.

https://lc.org/newsroom/details/250108-sandra-merritt-might-get-pp-defunded

[pharosproject]

Which position is more logical?

[radioismyheart]

You clearly have no heart if you think abortion isn't murder.

[that-devout-catholic-woman]

Alright, look. I’m willing to engage in respectful dialogue with you on the subject of abortion because I know at the heart of it we both want what’s good for people. But in order to do that, it requires you to show me the same amount of respect and empathy that I am showing you. If you can’t handle that, honestly there’s nothing stopping you from just calling it a day and not responding. I posted this to my blog to try to educate people about the nuances that exist within the abortion argument and what being truly pro-life looks life. If you don’t want to see the nuance and the gray areas and instead only want to look at it in extremes despite the materials given to you, that’s on you.

Part 1:

1.      Considering I’m 25% Pueblo I feel like it’s my right to compare. Just because I’m white-passing doesn’t mean I’m ancestrally a 100% white person and doesn’t mean that I don’t know what I’m talking about. I am a white-passing woman of color. But anyway, both are atrocities against human rights. For my fellow indigenous women, they’re being ripped from their homes and killed while a ton of people stand idly by and don’t really care. Sound familiar? Just because you can’t see the comparison doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist. Also. Puebloans have a deep respect for the family unit and families are often tight-knit groups. Puebloans have a deep respect for ancestors and lineages, and we know that without future generations, those lineages will stop and the deep sacredness of our ancestry would stop along with it. The only way Puebloan traditions can continue is by having children and teaching them to the children. Even among families of the same tribes, it’s not uncommon to help other families in need. You ever hear the term “it takes a village to raise a child”? These are the same reasons that having our women kidnapped is so awful, they had their own ancestry from which they came and had a future to which they belonged, they had a community who helped raise them and who love and care about them and miss them deeply. Abortion is a very Western and white ideology and that is why in addition to many Native American tribes, many African peoples are vehemently against abortion too since it goes against everything tradition has taught us/them about what is important in life. Don’t try to speak for those whose culture you obviously know nothing about. Speaking truth about my culture is not racism and I get to decide where the line gets drawn. A fetus is not simply a “creature,” it is a human. It has all the parts of a human and has the DNA of a human, therefore it is human. That’s just science and truth and definition. You can’t argue their humanity away no matter how hard you try. And if you want to get into the nitty gritty of the science, let’s do it. Sentience means having the ability to perceive or feel. Fetuses do. They are sentient whether or not you want to admit that to yourself. Fetuses have been shown to move away from noxious stimuli from very early stages of development. If you want the lit, I’d be more than happy to provide you with it.

2.      Bodily autonomy is not one of the rights guaranteed by our national constitution here in America, but the right to life is. Therefore bodily autonomy is not the top right guaranteed to humans but life is. Again, stop referring to fetuses as imaginary persons, they are humans with all the rights afforded to humans even when they are small and defenseless and just getting their start in life. And it’s not about consenting to let the fetus live there, it already is living there by the time that women figure out they’re pregnant. It’s already a living, moving, sentient being at that point in time. According to the Mayo Clinic, “Just four weeks after conception, the neural tube along your baby's back is closing. The baby's brain and spinal cord will develop from the neural tube. The heart and other organs also are starting to form and the heart begins to beat. Structures necessary to the formation of the eyes and ears develop… five weeks after conception, your baby's brain and face are growing.” So right about when a mother discovers she’s pregnant, the baby is forming all of its vital organs. This doesn’t mean they’re fully formed, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is alive and able to take in information.

2a. No, they are not autonomous. But neither are children from ages 0-18, so what’s your point? Autonomy is just the ability to legally do things for yourself, big whoop. It’s not legal to kill children after they’re born so what’s the difference between that and an unborn baby? People who are severely disabled sometimes need caregivers to help them and legally don’t have autonomy either. It’s still not legal to kill them either. Your argument about autonomy is thus invalidated.

2b.  This analogy is a flawed one and one that has been debunked by many other intelligent pro-lifers but I’ll relay their argument here to you: the organ “donation analogy fails adequately to represent the case of abortion. If having one’s kidney inside another person is analogous to being pregnant (as the story implies), then donating the kidney is analogous to becoming pregnant. Thus, all it proves is that the government should not forcibly impregnate anyone—an assertion with which everyone agrees.”

3. According to Cornell’s law school, “At common law, murder was defined as killing another human being with malice aforethought.” Therefore, if you follow the logic, a fetus is a human (you can’t argue that away)—check. Forethought being making an appointment and talking to an abortion counselor or doctor—check. Malice is the intention with full knowledge of what you’re doing, doctors get this informed consent before the abortion—check. Therefore all 3 criteria are met for abortion being murder. Meanwhile, manslaughter is the unintentional killing of someone. Again, abortion requires informed consent and thus cannot count as manslaughter. And I think it’s readily apparent that self-defense killings do not fit the criteria for abortions.

Part 2:

1.      As I stated above, no one’s life is in danger from the way that the Church views abortion. That was literally the whole point of my first post, which you seemingly missed and thus should go back and reread. The only scenarios that the Church is vehemently against in all cases is when the pregnancy is viable but unwanted.

2.      Yet again, you bring up the right to bodily autonomy and yet that is not a constitutional right, but the right to life is. Life starts inside a womb and thus is to be protected.

2a. Once again, the form of abortion that they are referring to is not #4 from my above post, but is #1-3. Denying life-saving medicine to someone in need is indeed its own form of torture. Which, again, the Church agrees with you about.

3. We do believe in bodily autonomy. However, we also believe in the right to life. And we believe the right to life always has and always will trump the right to bodily autonomy, and per my points above, I think you’ll see the rationale behind why we hold it in such high regard. If you want even more evidence we can get into the pathos of the arguments, but pro-choicers like to stick with cold, hard facts so that’s what I tried to give you.

In conclusion:

In cases where the mother’s life is at risk, it is allowable to continue with procedures that save the mother’s life. Only in cases of an unwanted viable pregnancy do pro-lifers think abortion is wrong. I have answered this before, the right to bodily autonomy is not as important as the right to life. You keep wanting a yes or no answer but I told you that the actual question behind your question is complex and so is the answer, so I’m not going to give you a straight yes or no answer like you want. Regardless of how black and white you think the argument on abortion is, it’s not, and you thinking it’s black and white shows your naïveté.

Hot take on abortion for you all

Part of the reason abortion is so highly contested is because of the various “kinds” of abortion that exist but that are all lumped into the one category of abortion:

One aspect of it is the removal of already deceased babies from the womb, which is a valid thing in the eyes of the Church since the baby’s soul is already in the loving hands of God.

A second is a life-threatening illness/injury to the mother or fetus which will result in a non-viable pregnancy or spontaneous maternal abortion (aka a definitive miscarriage), which is allowable only if doctors can convince clergy that there is 100% no way to save the baby. 

A third is if the mother’s life is in danger (ectopic pregnancy, for example) but a miscarriage may or may not happen, and this is highly contested in the Church as to whether it’s okay or not in this situation to allow an abortion and is usually determined by clergy on a case-by-case basis. Even in cases like ectopic pregnancy, as long as the procedure is meant to save the mother’s life rather than end the pregnancy (aka treatment such as removing a Fallopian tube is acceptable as long as it isn’t a direct abortion) it is generally deemed okay in the eyes of the Church. Obviously this is a very sad case and the women who have to make these choices and undergo the loss of a wanted but non-viable pregnancy deserve love and support, not chastisement.

The fourth is the termination of a healthy pregnancy or a pregnancy with a livable disability (Down Syndrome, for example) and is obviously wrong and is never supported by the Church. Termination of a pregnancy where the baby has a disability solely because the baby has a disability is eugenics at worst and is ableist at best.

Obviously the fact that all of these are medically and colloquially considered to be abortions is highly problematic in discussing why the Church is vehemently against certain forms of abortion. Pro-choice people and uneducated pro-life people assume we’re against all of them, which is untrue. There are special councils of clergy made to hear the cases of mothers and babies in crisis and they are not unsympathetic to the plights of those mothers and families.

For anyone who is pro-life, I beg of you to look into the truth of what is taught as acceptable vs not so that we can make sound arguments to help save lives.

For anyone who is pro-choice, please understand that what many pro-lifers are arguing for is actually a misrepresentation of what the pro-life movement is actually supposed to be. Being pro-life in the context of abortion means standing up for women and children both, in all stages of life, even and especially when it’s hard. Those who are truly pro-life and are educated on the subject have genuine empathy and compassion for where these women come from when they are considering abortion (or not) and we do our best to help them make healthy choices for themselves and their babies while also providing for their other needs. If you want to see what an actual pro-life crisis pregnancy center looks like and offers (in contrast to PP), feel free to look up the Alpha Pregnancy Clinic of Northern California; you’ll find that a lot more services are offered and all are 100% free to women in need. THAT is what it looks like to be pro-life.

[doctorbriankiczek]

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers

Saint Mother Teresa

[dailysaintquotes]

End Abortion Now!

Reblog if you Agree!

[but-how-do-you-drive]

WE WON!!

So a local high school was having their board vote on whether or not they would allow a “health center” run by Planned Parenthood set up shop INSIDE the school, and for the past several weeks we’ve been standing outside (alongside those who supported PP) with signs and praying during the meetings, but tonight the board voted against it 5-4!!! WE DID IT! GOD IS SO GOOD!

[necrocrunk]

the problem is i would rather at least make half the effort and vote for biden than literally die under another 4 years of trump, but at the same time i know voting is bullshit, but i also would like to do SOMETHING other than nothing. it’s a double edged sword i guess

[spicycourses]

When I get back from my trip, I’m gonna go straight to Planned Parenthood and rub my grubby little Trender hands alllll over their hormones 😘 Shots by LMFAO will play. There will be selfies galore.

[pharosproject]

Keep your laws off my guns, and protect innocent babies.

[crafty-butch]

So, I've seen a couple of posts saying you should donate to local abortion funds instead of Planned Parenthood because PP doesn't need the money and/or is somehow less vital. This strikes me as a bit....................ill-informed.

I'm not telling you where to donate, but I do think it's important to make your choices based on accurate information.

The reason Planned Parenthood is THE big name in abortion access is because they're the single largest provider of abortions in the USA, performing approximately 40% - 55% of all US abortions in 2019/2020 (calculation under the readmore) [1].

Planned Parenthood also has political advocacy arms at the national level and in almost every state (plus D.C).

There have been multiple attempts to "defund" Planned Parenthood by prohibiting Medicaid reimbursement/Title X grants to PP -- which 60% of PP's patients rely on -- and the Roe v. Wade verdict will only make it worse.

Again, I'm not saying you have to donate to PP, or choose PP over your local abortion fund if you can only donate to one, but know that Planned Parenthood has cross hairs on its back.

[1] According to the CDC, a total of 629,898 abortions were reported in 2019. The Guttmacher Institute counted 862,320 abortions in 2017 (the latest year they have data available), about 40% higher than the CDC's estimates in the same year, due to differences in data reporting. So, at a high estimate, we'll say there were around 880,000 abortions performed in 2019 (CDC's number × 1.4). Planned Parenthood performed 354,871 abortions in the 2019-2020 fiscal year, which gives us:

355,000 ÷ 630,000 = 56%

355,000 ÷ 880,000 = 40%

[plannedparenthood]

The House just voted to strip health care from millions of people and block patients from Planned Parenthood health centers. We can still stop this disastrous bill before it becomes law. 

Speak out now>>

[ppaction]

Devastating: Iowa Health Center Closures

Ignoring the opposition of thousands of Iowans, the Republican-controlled state legislature passed a Planned Parenthood “defunding” measure — similar to the measure in “Trumpcare” — that is forcing the closure of four Planned Parenthood health centers this Friday, June 30. This is despite the fact that 77 percent of Iowans support funding for care at Planned Parenthood and that other health care providers in Iowa cannot meet the tremendous need for care without Planned Parenthood.

Politicians have suggested women could go to “alternative” providers like dentists and school nurses instead. In fact, Planned Parenthood served 30 percent of the more than 12,000 people who received care through the state’s Medicaid family planning waiver program last year, according to the Iowa Legislative Services Agency. This legislation would be hardest on people who already face barriers to accessing health care — especially people of color, young people, people with low to moderate incomes, and people who live in rural areas.

The impact of these attacks will have an immediate impact on Iowa women — leaving nearly 15,000 Iowans without access to their trusted health care provider.

Here are a few of their stories.

Sara's Story

Sara is a person of faith and has relied on Planned Parenthood since she was 16 for birth control, cancer screenings, STI testing and annual exams. She has premature ovarian failure, multiple sclerosis (MS) and other health conditions - access to health care is absolutely essential to her.

She does not know where she will go once her health center in Iowa is closed.

Laura’s Story

Laura relied on Planned Parenthood after she was sexually assaulted in college for after care, and for birth control, screenings and medical counseling throughout her 20s. She, like many other women, suffers from endometriosis, a condition that can cause painful periods, heavy bleeding, and even make it more difficult to become pregnant.

She is now the proud mother of a 10 month old daughter and credits her fertility to Planned Parenthood.

Phoebe’s Story

Phoebe is a single mother to a 4-year-old son. She is also a sexual assault survivor and struggles with mental health issues. She is a Medicaid patient and relies of Planned Parenthood as her primary source of health care for birth control, cancer screenings and annual exams.

She does not know where she is going to go in a year when it's time to replace her IUD.

This is only the beginning.

Trumpcare has similar language to the Iowa bill, prohibiting patients who rely on Medicaid -- nearly half of the millions who rely on Planned Parenthood -- from turning to Planned Parenthood for preventive health care like cancer screenings, birth control, well-woman exams or STD testing and treatment.

This bill prohibits patients from coming to Planned Parenthood for health care even if we have been their health care provider for decades, and even if, as is the case for many of our patients, they have no other providers they can turn to.  And unlike other provisions in this bill, the banning patients from coming to Planned Parenthood would go into effect immediately. This means as early as hours after the president signs Trumpcare into law, millions across this country would be told they could no longer come to Planned Parenthood.

Don't Let This Happen

Call your Senator and tell them you won’t go backward when it comes to women’s health.

Call You Senators Now!