Argumentative Essay On Planned Parenthood

45 million Americans live in poverty and rely on government subsidies to get by. Medicaid is a governmental health care program that offers care to those in poverty. Right now over 60% of all patients use Medicaid to cover their procedures received at a Planned Parenthood facility. These include preventive measures such as breast and ovarian cancer screening, HIV testing and contraception methods. The facilities do provide abortions, but it is only a small portion of all the other procedures performed and they are all safe and legal upheld by the Supreme Court Case, Roe v Wade. Many people oppose the services offered by institutions such as Planned Parenthood, but it is an important facility that should not be defunded further because it provides

This is evident through mass movements such as Women’s marches that occurred in cities all around the world on January 21st of 2017. The fight to defund Planned Parenthood is spearheaded by politicians who opposed women’s reproductive rights and their rights to obtain safe and legal abortions. In today's society women are not considered to be truly equal to men. In 1973 Jane Roe took Henry Wade to the Supreme Court in an attempt to rule a law prohibiting abortion in Texas unconstitutional. She was successful and the issue of abortion was ruled a violation of the Due Process Clause from the Fourteenth Amendment. (Lee, 1). In 1976, Congress passed legislation known collectively as the Hyde Amendment which prohibits federal funding, like Medicaid, to be used in the case of abortion. The small exception to this rule is if the mother’s life will be endangered if she continues the gestational period, or in the case of rape or incest that had been properly reported to the police. (Harris v Mcrae 301). Many politicians, such as President Trump, want to defund Planned Parenthood solely because of them providing safe and legal abortions. Even though less that 3 % of all procedures performed are abortion related (Rhode 29). They want to defund Planned Parenthood because of them providing access to a legal medical procedure that the government does not pay for. By doing so they are violating the 14th amendment and a court case over 40 years old.They are not only defunding an important medical institution, they are cutting back on women’s reproductive rights and thus their equality in today’s