Planned parenthood makes so much money of off so many services, so why do they even need government funding?
On top of that, they receive donation money and money from investments. According to Planned Parenthood’s 2014 annual report, their total net assets amount to more than $367 million.
According to Forbes, $541 million of federal money was granted to Planned Parenthood in 2013, but $315 million came from private donations.
From the sale of contraceptives, to counseling, sexual education, STD testing, and abortions, Planned Parenthood can make a lot of money from a single person or family.
For example, a college student can go to a nearby center to buy contraceptives; but if they fail, she can go back for counseling and possibly an abortion, then counseling after the abortion. Since Planned Parenthood has assisted her with her first pregnancy experience, she is likely to return for her future family planning needs.
“It’s necessary public health care,” some argue; but that depends on your definition of health care.
College-aged women, 20 to 24 years old, have the highest abortion rate out of all the other age groups, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
Planned Parenthood provides controversial health care for sure, because only 47 percent of US adults identified as pro-choice in 2014, according to a Gallup poll.
Like 46 percent of Americans who identified as pro-life in 2014, I don’t believe abortion is justifiable. For that reason alone, I don’t believe the government should have funded such an institution in the first place.
Planned Parenthood has come under fire in the news lately from an incriminating undercover video that has gone viral on the Internet. From what I have gathered, Planned Parenthood has not really denied the accusations of selling fetal parts expressed in the video.
In a press release and video posted on plannedparenthood.org, the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Cecile Richards, claims that some women have donated fetal tissue for medical research.
It is now up to the Senate to take a closer look at these findings and decide if this organization is worth government funds.
