House of Representatives votes to strip Planned Parenthood of funding

I wonder if they care how many people they will put out of a job, or the number of women who don't have insurance and can't afford to pay $150 to go to the doctor for a prescription for birth control? How will it help our economy anymore to put these nurses and doctors out of a job and then deny low-income people the ability to access their prescriptions? On top of that, there are a countless number of people who go there for STD check-ups and treatment, and I don't know about the idiots in charge of the country, but I would take a look at other issues before trying to shut down an organization that HELPS people. Abortions are only a percentage of the services they offer, and I myself had to go for a birth control RX and pap when I didn't have any insurance! Without their help, I wouldn't have had a way to get it when I couldn't afford a doctor after my bills.

Ignorant people like these republicans need to get out of the house and congress period!

An average of 1,300,000 babies are killed annually through surgical abortion.The bulk of them are done through Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood clinic income is $356.9 million. Government grants and contracts to Planned Parenthood are $336.7 million. I don't want my tax money spent on abortions. Planned Parenthood is just a abortion mill hiding behind the clinics name.

This is ridiculous... I am a single mother working two jobs to support my son... AND trying to go to school. Neither of my jobs offer benefits and I dont make enough money to pay out of pocket Dr bills or purchase my own health insurance... Planned Parenthood has helped me maintain all of postpartum check ups and birth control since having my son. So what if they use some of their money to build a few fancy buildings! They are helping women such as myself!!

DEFUND PP and let the baby killers make private donations!!!

I'm very troubled that someone in political office might decide what I can do for my health. Are men threatened by a woman making her own decisions? And if abortion is not the right thing to do, how many of those who oppose it have come forth to support or adopt a child or agree to support birth control education?

Planned Parenthood is more than just a place that does abortions. It provides birth control for both women and men, screens for STDs for both women and men, and does preganany testing and counseling. If PP is defunded, there will be more than just women suffering.

Even Pro-Lifers have sex and PP gives Pro-Lifers birth control and screening.

Santa Claus lives at the North Pole, babies are found in the cabbage patch and politicians don't lie and don't have a personal agendas. Pence is a disgrace to the human race. The deficit is obscene and he wants to put Planned Parenthood out of business and what? Where will the federal government come up with the extra billion dollars and staff to man ANOTHER federal government agency to do the work of planned parenthood. Pence has lied. Look into his allegations and find out the outcome of the criminal claims against Planned Parenthood. The house of representatives should pass a resolution that any member of congress that willingly or unwillingly misrepresents information on the floor of congress should be immediately suspended for the balance of his term in office.
That will make a lot of these political b------ s do their homework PERSONALLY and not be able to blame aides for their blatant lies. I run businesses and the buck stops with me. I am RESPONSABLE for every mistake, lie or problem caused by everyone of my employess and my customers know that as do the employees. Yes Planned Parenthood was fined $50,000 for not notifying that there was a minor who got an abortion and did not get parental consent. All the other charges that Pence referred to were dropped and Pence didn't take the time to verify this information. He used inuendo and half truths. And the other 239 representatives should be damn glad they aren't women and poor and aren't exploited by men and have no place to turn for information on controlling their bodies.
These people are so incredible stupid, I am ashamed that they represent the American people. LOOK CAREFULLY AT THESE TWO WORDS "PLANNED PARENTHOOD". Do you see the word abortion, sex slaves, sex trade, abuse of women? No you see something that says that this organization will help women and men plan their parenthood stage of life.
I believe EVERY CHILD no matter where it is born and to whom it is born should be wanted, loved, cherished, desired by all members of his family, should be educated to the farthest natural abilities it posses, be free from hunger, have a roof over his head, and clothing to protect him from the elements. And if for any reason a pregnant woman does not want a child she should not be forced to have a child. Today there are millions of child waiting to be adopted all over the world and politicians and bureaucrats are making a tremendously lucrative business out of this. Orphanages are overflowing. Children are wasting away emotionally, physically and psychologically because of this outrage and 240 representatives of congress want to increase the number of unwanted children in the world.
You are all shameless.

Why am I not surprised that the same people are still here exhibiting the same nasty, childish behavior as they always have in the past?

"Our country is broke" due to two wars one of them based on lies) the greed of corporations, and the mismanagement of republicans. Yet the same people against abortion are more than happy to support the killing of non-Christian men, women, and children in other nations. Of course, we also know that these same people overwhelmingly support the death penalty.

And then Mia gets high fives all around for yammering about a parent's "responsibility" to teach their children (because, you know, everyone has parents, and you know, all those parents are capable of teaching their children). According to Mia, any person who has sex and is unfortunate enough to contract a disease must suffer and die from it, because she and some other unethical uneduated "folks" demand they learn the hard way for not subscribing to their invented morality.

And then WilliamM makes the most absurd statement of all: "We can no longer afford to make every one of Maslow's hierarchy of needs into an entitlement. That is the bottom line." Yes, because we don't have a homeless problem in America or anything like that, right? American's aren't going bankrupt due to medical costs.

I almost forgot how incredibly stupid the people on this website are.

If the funding is ended then we should get ready to see back alley abortions with a dirty coat hanger again. There will be unqualified people performing services and putting girls lives in danger because they want to capitalize on this. Abortions won't stop they will just be much more risky.

I have never aborted a child but several of my friends growing up did, some at Planned Parenthood. They were counseled about their decisions and advised of all the alternatives before they made their decisions. Most of them, their parents never knew about it and still don't. Before you say my child never would you better think twice. I would much rather my child have access to a qualified medical
staff than a guy in an alley that no one knows.

I'm just giving some constructive criticism; no one can take you seriously if your writing displays an obvious lack of education and intelligence. And if you all care about babies so much, why don't you focus your efforts on helping the ones that are already born? Any of you screeching about 'killing babies' ever adopt an unwanted child or do anything to help needy kids? And if the government is going to stop funding Planned Parenthood, maybe they should also stop funding abstinence-only education and crisis pregnancy centers. Sounds fair to me.

I skimmed every comment made here. I noticed that not one person mentioned that Planned Parenthood provides healthcare, education, and family planning services to both women AND men. The services provided are done so for free to little or no cost. Those that are able to pay are charged on a sliding scale.

Now, to those of you who insist on spreading hate and lies about Planned Parenthood--like they're only in it for the money, and that they're abortion mills--why not operate in the truth? Why not focus on the fact that abortion accounts for the least of PP services? Why not focus on the fact that PP saves lives every day by providing cancer screenings and treatments? Why not admit that what this is really about is the fact that you can't stand not being able to control others and make them do what you tell them to do?

To the many of you here who support Planned Parenthood, you can go to PlannedParenthood.org or to PlannedParenthood's facebook page, and they will tell you how to sign petitions and also how to contact you congress person and senator to let them know that you support them. They will also tell you how can donate to them. I contacted my congressman with Planned Parenthood's help, and he stood with them! I also contacted every person in my address book to write to him and support them as well!

Well speaking from someone who started using planned parenthood @ 17 I know alittle on this subject. None of these people who want to get rid of PP have probbly never been to PP. As a "lower middle income" girl who was embarrassed to talk to anyone I knew about sex and my body, I went to PP. I had no money but knew I didnt want to be a high-school "mommy". They talked to me about all the contraception that was there and how important it was to be "sexually resposible". Gave me my first exam and supplied me with the birth control of my choosing and free condoms. I will be forever greatful. I continued to use them though my early 20's because the "luxury" of health insurance wasn't something I had. Little by little they had to charge more and more (dam Bush) and I had to stop going because I could not afford it. Having a family history of cervical cancer, every year that passed I felt like I had a ticking time bomb, because I did not know and was paranoid sexually with my partner because I was not on the pill. Now out of college and a grown women with insurance I understand what a gift PP is for those who want it. If you want to stop the abortions, keep PP open and let everyone know about there sexual resposiblities to care and protect themselves. No one wants an abortion, but if an unwanted pregancy arises and a girl knows she doen't want it this should be an option. The atrocity is all of these children who are unloved, abused, and neglected or worse murdered because of parents who were not ready for a child

As a teenager I used Planned Parenthood, they never discussed abortion as the option. They provided annual checks and birth control. For those of you wanting to save your tax paying dimes...start telling your congress/senate men & women that you no longer want them to get an automatic pay raise every year...you don't want your tax dollars to pay for their insurance when they are no longer your employee, you don't want to pay for their childs education. They are our employees and we have no rights to say how our tax dollars are used in their favor. That's where the budget needs adjusted!
It's a double edged sword, tax dollars are either going to be used for family planning or welfare.

I think it's wonderful what your husband and you are doing, I admire that. I'm not obsessed with 'dead babies', I just think that most of what PP does is provide women who don't have insurance or a whole lot of money much needed health services. I am fine with my tax dollars going towards preventing unwanted pregnancies, thus preventing abortions, because it costs less for society in the long run. And most of what Planned Parenthood does is provide free or low cost birth control for women who can't afford it. It's also valuable for women who don't have insurance yet don't qualify for Medicaid.

The botton line is PP does not care about woman they care about making money and they are making plenty of it from our tax dollars. I wonder how many politicians are getting kickbacks from PP, many I'm sure.

Mia, if you want to be smart and righteous, you may want to learn how to spell properly.

Well, you know, anyone who disagrees with Angela is stupid. Remember that and always echo everything her angry, bitter little hands type and you will not feel the sharp edge of her ad hominem "arguments". ;)

Or, you can just realize that the opinion of someone who doesn't know you ABOUT you and about whom you don't care is about the least powerful thing in the world...

I will not shed a single tear if PP is defunded but I doubt the Senate will go along with it.

While I tend to agree that some ( not all ) churches push the envelope of their side of the tax-free social contract, and have long questioned that contract...dispensing with it would probably not pass Constitutional muster. "The power to tax is the power to destroy", and I suspect that the framers had that apothegm in mind when they penned the document.

But of course this is just a red herring to distract from the actual issue of whether or not to fund PP. That there are problems over there in Issue X has no real bearing on the problems with Issue A.

The question at hand is not moral, at least to me, but rather wholly economic. The nation has enough actual legitimate functions to fund as it is, without making one human "need" after another into a human "right" to be funded by the taxpayers. We are reaping the consequences of decades of this sort of policy creep into the social sphere right now, and it's only going to get worse as demographic trends go against us, as rivals like China grow stronger and require more counteraction, and world resources dwindle and become more expensive.

We can no longer afford to make every one of Maslow's hierarchy of needs into an entitlement. That is the bottom line.