Topic > Planned Parenthood: A Fight for Abortion Rights

In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court's finding was that women had the right to choose an abortion, making it legal. As provided above, current numbers from Planned Parenthood's annual report show that abortion is the service they provide the most, in fact it only makes up 3% of the services they provide (Planned). Planned Parenthood receives no abortion funding, so there should be no discussion of even cutting the services it provides because critics think all they do are abortions. Planned Parenthood's purpose is to help and educate, and they've done so much to prove it. Planned Parenthood requires services to be set at a certain price so that everyone has the ability to get those critical health services, and denying access to them would cause a lot of harm to people. Defunding Planned Parenthood would do more harm than good, an example would be women turning to Planned Parenthood to seek affordable birth control if they don't have that access as has been which would likely lead to more unwanted pregnancies and even more abortions. The organization's services effectively reduce the number of abortions (Finn). As previously mentioned, Planned Parenthood prevented 584,000 unwanted pregnancies in 2010, which shows that the organization's primary focus is not abortion as the organization's critics claim. Everyone is entitled to Planned Parenthood services