{"id":198283,"date":"2019-03-13T06:25:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T11:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=198283"},"modified":"2019-03-22T19:02:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T00:02:07","slug":"poor-women-health-centers-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/poor-women-health-centers-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor women need comprehensive health centers, not Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Planned Parenthood claims 75 percent of its patients have incomes at or below 150 percent of the federal poverty level. Recent HHS rule changes put in place by the Trump administration regarding TitleX family planning funds<\/a> threaten to remove tax dollars from Planned Parenthood as long as it continues to commit abortions in the same facilities where it dispenses birth control. Supporters of the changes argue that poor and low-income men and women should not be forced to visit abortion facilities in order to access health care, nor should taxpayer dollars be used to prop up<\/a> abortion facilities. And that’s what has been happening, as this video<\/a> explains.<\/p>\n

Despite this, supporters of the abortion corporation falsely claim that if Planned Parenthood is defunded, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC),\u00a0as identified by the federal\u00a0Health Resources and Services Administration<\/a>\u00a0(HRSA), would not be able to handle the influx of patients, a claim\u00a0previously<\/a> debunked.<\/p>\n

There are vast differences<\/a> between\u00a0community health centers (which provide comprehensive health services to women and families) and Planned Parenthood, whose president called abortion the corporation’s “core mission.”<\/p>\n

FACILITIES<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood (PP) facilities have been decreasing nationwide, while FQHC sites are increasing:<\/p>\n