{"id":160355,"date":"2017-01-23T18:07:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T23:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=160355"},"modified":"2017-01-23T18:58:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T23:58:04","slug":"5-reasons-americans-will-benefit-if-planned-parenthood-is-defunded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/5-reasons-americans-will-benefit-if-planned-parenthood-is-defunded\/","title":{"rendered":"5 reasons Americans will benefit if Planned Parenthood is defunded"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>

With President Donald Trump’s vocal support of defunding Planned Parenthood, along with a House and Senate with Republican majorities, the likelihood of the abortion chain losing its government funding has become a real possibility. Planned Parenthood itself knows this, as its letters to supporters have gone into fear mode. Planned Parenthood President, Cecile Richards, penned a fundraising note to supporters on December 18 that said in part:<\/p>\n

We’re just weeks away from a frightening, unprecedented moment…. We don’t know exactly what President Trump will do when he takes office, but if we take him at his word, we can expect some of the worst threats to reproductive rights and health care we’ve ever faced.<\/p>\n

Make sure we’re ready for the fight of our lives<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More aptly stated, it’s a fight for babies’ lives. And defunding the abortion corporation is one critical step in that process of saving lives. Ultimately, the nation will benefit when Planned Parenthood is defunded. And the ways that will happen are clear to see when not looking through a lens of abortion:<\/p>\n

1. Uninsured and low-income women will have greater<\/em> access to all health care.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the opposite of what the abortion giant leads people to believe will happen if Planned Parenthood is defunded. However, the reality is that when Planned Parenthood is\u00a0defunded, that money will not go away; rather, it will be rerouted to Federally Qualified Health Centers. As\u00a0Live Action has previously reported<\/a>, these FQHCs provide all the medical services, apart from abortion, that Planned Parenthood offers, but they also offer more comprehensive health care. Additionally, there are thousands of FQHCs in the nation, but fewer\u00a0than 700 Planned Parenthood locations. Everywhere a woman might seek out a Planned Parenthood, she can find a FQHC. But women will benefit even more, because women in rural areas — where Planned Parenthood doesn’t have facilities because there is less opportunity for profit — there are FQHCs, so women don’t need to travel to the nearest major city (like they do\u00a0to receive Planned Parenthood’s limited services); they need only to go to one of the thousands of FQHCs located all over the nation<\/a>.\u00a0And unlike Planned Parenthood, which has been shown to give patients medically inaccurate information in order to convince women to have abortions<\/a>, women at these FQHCs can be assured they will receive quality, accurate medical care from those without a stake in their decision.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

A photo of the clinics that outnumber Planned Parenthood 20 to 1.<\/p><\/div>\n

2. Planned Parenthood commits human and civil rights violations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Americans cannot thrive in the land of the free when their tax money goes to a government-supported organization that uses its position to violate human rights and twist its medical front into a profit center for fetal parts brokering.<\/p>\n

The human rights violations of the abortion chain have been detailed for year. The most obvious, of course, is that Planned Parenthood\u00a0snuffs out the life of a unique human being each time it commits an abortion. Denying a human a right to be born is the most egregious of all violations. A unique human being with its own DNA is simply a profit margin for the abortion chain.<\/p>\n

Additionally, investigations from the House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives<\/a>\u00a0revealed that in order to gain this profit, Planned Parenthood was willing to violate the\u00a0Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). So iron clad are these regulations of privacy, that even a husband and wife have to sign release papers to disclose health information to the spouse. Yet Planned Parenthood has shown it will violate HIPAA laws in its work to sell fetal parts. As the Panel noted in its complaint letter to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)<\/a> last June:<\/p>\n

The key to understanding the HIPAA and consent violations that we\u2019ve referred to HHS is that there\u2019s a business contract between StemExpress and the abortion clinics\u00a0under which\u00a0both sides make a profit from the baby body parts inside the young woman\u2019s womb. The contract changes the way both entities view the young woman: her\u00a0baby\u00a0is\u00a0now\u00a0a profit-center. This\u00a0betrayal of a young woman\u2019s trust should disgust us all. It takes financial advantage, obtains consent through coercion, and deceives the woman, all in violation of federal privacy laws.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This resulted in the Panel asking for “a swift and full investigation from the Office of Civil Rights” in the HHS.<\/p>\n

3. Planned Parenthood has a history of rampant Medicaid fraud.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As Live Action News reported in 2015<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[P]ro-life legal group Alliance Defending Freedom released a damaging new report outlining Planned Parenthood\u2019s fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars<\/a>. The report outlines how 45 public audits of Planned Parenthood affiliates, along with 57 audits of state family planning programs, found waste, fraud, and abuse to the tune of $129.7 million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Among the findings the Charlotte Lozier Institute named in a report this month, entitled, “Profit. No Matter What,” are a host of overbilling and fraudulent errors. CLI lists them (the entire report may be accessed here)<\/a>:<\/p>\n