...Planned Parenthood& The Defunding Movement Introduction Planned Parenthood is a national nonprofit organization of the United States. It is a fundamental provider of reproductive health care. Planned Parenthood has 61 affiliates throughout the country, with an estimated 700 health clinics in almost all states. It is not only a health care provider, but also an educator and advocate for women’s health. Planned Parenthood assists women in making conscious and well-informed choices about health, sex, and family planning. Every year over three million women, men, and teens visit Planned Parenthood associated medical centers to receive health care such as routine gynecological exams, breast and cervical cancer screenings, contraceptive services, abortion care, sexually transmitted infection/disease testing and treatment. According to Planned Parenthood, one out of five female Americans pays a visit to a Planned Parenthoodcenter throughout the course of her life (Planned Parenthood, 2014). Because Planned Parenthood is a nonprofit organization, it relies heavily on government funding to support its broad mission and programs. At the end of the 2014 fiscal year, it was revealed that Planned Parenthood health centers were recipients of $528.4 million in government funds. These funds were the largest source of income for the organization followed by private donors, charitable foundations, and non-government sources. With this being said, federal funding is absolutely essential to...
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...A Research Study to Determine if the GOP’s Argument to Defund Planned Parenthood is Creditable By Nathaniel A. Payne Submitted to the Faculty of Brandman University In partial fulfillment of the requirement for HRCU 630 Conflict & Negotiation 03 April 2016 Introduction The Grand Ole Parties’ (GOP) argument to defund Planned Parenthood is not creditable because of one particular reason; Planned Parenthood is not using government funds to conduct abortion. These are the term in which the legislation was written and passed in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Planned Parenthood receives public funds to provide comprehensive reproductive and complementary health care services and ensure access to such services to provide educational programs which enhance understanding of individual and societal implications of human sexuality to promote research and the advancement of technology in reproductive health care and encourage understanding of their inherent bioethical, behavioral, and social implications (Planned Parenthood, 2014). Now the GOP wish to change legislation and deny Planned Parenthood public fund because now the Party wish to argue that no organization should receive public fund that conducts abortions for any program it does. All people have the right to make decisions for them-selves. To be able to make informed choices people need education and resources (Lottes, 2013). First and foremost this is not attracting the Republican...
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...A Research Study to Determine if the GOP’s Argument to Defund Planned Parenthood is Creditable By Nathaniel A. Payne Submitted to the Faculty of Brandman University In partial fulfillment of the requirement for HRCU 630 Conflict & Negotiation 03 April 2016 Introduction The Grand Ole Parties’ (GOP) argument to defund Planned Parenthood is not creditable because of one particular reason; Planned Parenthood is not using government funds to conduct abortion. These are the term in which the legislation was written and passed in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Planned Parenthood receives public funds to provide comprehensive reproductive and complementary health care services and ensure access to such services to provide educational programs which enhance understanding of individual and societal implications of human sexuality to promote research and the advancement of technology in reproductive health care and encourage understanding of their inherent bioethical, behavioral, and social implications (Planned Parenthood, 2014). Now the GOP wish to change legislation and deny Planned Parenthood public fund because now the Party wish to argue that no organization should receive public fund that conducts abortions for any program it does. All people have the right to make decisions for them-selves. To be able to make informed choices people need education and resources (Lottes, 2013). First and foremost this is not attracting the Republican...
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...In 1983: Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health declared an Ohio law requiring all abortions after the first trimester be performed at a hospital with a 24-hour waiting period and parental consent needed for girls younger than 15 unconstitutional. Then in 1989, Webster v. Reproductive Health Services struck down a law that requiring doctors to perform tests on the fetus prior to administering any abortions. 1992 left those on either side of the abortion debate puzzled when Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania. v. Casey rules that abortion regulations that present an "undue burden" on women's constitutional right will be prohibited. In 1994, President Bill Clinton signed into effect the Abortion-Clinic Protection Bill, which protects abortion clinics from any protesting they may face. Very recently in 2000, The Food and Drug Administration approved RU-486, a drug enabling a woman to terminate a pregnancy and removed the need for surgical abortion within 7 weeks of conception. 2003 brought about the outlawing of dilation and extraction, a method of abortion by President George W. Bush. Then in 2007 The Supreme Court upheld this law making it the first restriction on abortion methods since Roe v....
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... 1. In the 1992 Casey vs. Planned Parenthood decision, the Supreme Court struck down a Pennsylvania law that required, among other things, a 24hour waiting period between the confirmation of a pregnancy and an abortion. 2. In what year did the Supreme Court rule that abortions were legal? 3. The 1992 Supreme Court decision in the Casey vs. Planned Parenthood case upheld a Pennsylvania law that placed which of the following restrictions on abortion? 4. In 1973, abortion became legal in the United States by virtue of 5. The Hyde Amendment, passed by Congress in 1976, 6. A researcher asks, "What is your relationship to the people you are living with?" He provides the following list of choices: parents/relatives, friends, spouse, living by myself, other. What method of gaining information is being used? 7. A social problem for some may be a solution for others. 8. The first state to define abortion as a private, noncriminal act was Alaska. 9. The text argues that one of the ways that sociologists can promote a better understanding of social problems is by 10. In Kristin Luker's study of an abortion clinic, she found that many unmarried women who obtained abortions had not used contraceptives because they did not want to confront the fact that they were sexually active. 11. One of the major advantages of using openended rather than closedended questions is that 12. Experiments are rarely used in the study of social problems because ...
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...Roe v. Wade is the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion within the first two months of a women's pregnancy. The plaintiff, Jane Roe, resided in Texas where abortion was illegal unless a woman’s life was at risk. She sought to have an abortion because her financial situation was not stable enough to support a child. The case began in 1970 when Roe took federal action against Dallas Counties’ district attorney, Henry Wade. The case officially went to trial on on December 13th, 1971. Eventually the case was moved to the Supreme Court on October 11th, 1972. On January 22nd, 1973, the US Supreme Court came to a seven to two decision. The conclusion of the court case affirms a women's right to have an abortion under...
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...Frances Musone Abortion Honors Biology Unger Abortion is the termination of pregnancy. This is a very controversial topic and there are many sides to this topic. Abortion can be performed in two different ways in a doctor’s office. You can either take pill or a doctor can do a surgical procedure. The pill is ingested. In the next 48 hours the recipient will have cramps and bleeding. This is the least invasive way of abortion and is similar to having a miscarriage. This can occur 5-10 weeks after your pregnancy. If you don't get abort in time, there is a second way. The second way is a in-clinic procedure where a trained doctor will basically use a suction tube to empty out the uterus.This is more invasive but it is quicker than the pill....
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...legally. The way these women were performing their illegal abortions was very dangerous, and that is when the public realized that it should be the mother's choice on whether or not she wants to have an abortion. In 1969 a young woman needed to have an abortion, but since she lived in Texas they were illegal, so she began searching everywhere for someone to perform an illegal abortion. On her search to find an illegal abortion she ran into two lawyers that were wanting to challenge the Texas law that determined abortion is unconstitutional. One of the lawyers decided to represent the girl in court and that is when the case started. The case began in Texas and went all the way to the supreme court. The name of the case was Roe vs Wade, and in January of 1973 the supreme court ended the state laws that had confined women's access to abortions. After the Roe vs Wade case many states had immediately changed their abortion laws. Some of the states increased the time period that the mother had to get an abortion once she was pregnant, and other states completely got rid of all the laws that were regulating abortion. (Roe v Wade). The number of abortions went up significantly. “By the late 1980s, 1.5 millions legal abortions were performed annually in the country, and about three out of every ten pregnancies ended in abortions” (Roe v. Wade). Since then that number has gone down. Today the number of legal abortions that take place in America each year is around 700,000. When talking about...
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...i Abortion Controversy: Conflicting Beliefs and Values In American Society By: Joseph B. Tamney, Stephen D. Johnson, and Ronald Burton Submitted By: Thomala J. Hollingsworth Sociology 100 Professor: Gwendolyn Royal-Smith February 26, 2013 ii Abstract This study examines the ideological and structured basis for attitudes and political action relating to abortion. A sample from “Middletown” in fall of 1989 showed that most people believed that abortion begins at conception, a belief in privacy rights, and religion. Social traditionalism also played an important role in a pro-life stand, which is only influential for conservative Protestants and not for Catholics. Catholics believe in abstinence and refraining from taking anyone’s life as it relates to abortion. The political action, the data showed that the pro-life movement was more important in 1989 than the pro-choice movement. Party identification was not used for abortion as a political litmus test. However, attending pro-life churches did increase the likelihood of using abortion for voting decisions. I am interested in this particular article because the subject of legalized abortion or the lack thereof, hits home for me. I feel that women everywhere should have the right to say what happens to their bodies, which is in the United States, even in other countries where women are not allowed to have freedom of speech and treated unequally. Legalized Abortion I Women...
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...Department of Health and Human Services (MacKay, Fingerhut, & Duran, 2000), more than 900,000 adolescents become pregnant each year. Three hundred thousand of these annual pregnancies occur in mothers under the age of 15, 78% are unplanned, creating multiple negative consequences for the adolescent and society.”(Pierangeli,L. 2006) This study addresses the community health nursing role in trying to reduce the number adolescent pregnancy by teaching students about abstance to prevent teenage pregnancy that abstained will also prevent STD. If a child hears the message about abstinence before they become sexually active it is received better. Therefore it reduces both STD and teenage pregnancies. “Worth the Wait is an abstinence education program designed for sixth through eighth grade students. It focuses on healthy relationship building, goal setting, and the challenges of parenthood. The WTW program consists of three main topic areas. They are: ‘healthy relationships,’ ‘parenting can wait,’ and ‘making good decisions. ”(Pierangeli, L. 2006) The Theory of Planned Behavior(TPB) (Ajzen, 1988, 1991; Ajzen & Madden,1986) is used in this study as a framework for reviewing the literature. The TPB is based on another theory called the Theory of Reasoned Action(TRA) this theory based is behavior can be controlled however you must have the attitude, willing to control a behavioral and has nothing to do with demographics and environment. An older physician whom I worked with told...
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...Even if the minor has a close relationship with her parents the need for privacy can cause drastic measures (204). Rebecca Bell, a minor in Indiana who had a “very close relationship with her parents,” sought an illegal abortion and died as a result all because she did not want her parents to know about her pregnancy (204). The need for privacy is compelling and “minors may be driven to desperate measures” (204). Another fear for some is if one service at a clinic requires consent minors may stop seeking the care they need (205). According to Leslie Tarr Laurie, the President of Tapestry Health Systems, “confidentiality is the cornerstone” of their services and they help teens to avoid “the costly and often tragic consequences of unintended pregnancy and childbearing” (205). She says if they do not assure confidential health care, “teenagers simply will stop seeking the care they desire and need” (205). This law is supposed to make it safer for the...
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...Eugenics in America during the 20th Century. I intend to present a purely informative paper on the sociological perspective of eugenics during the past century in the United States through Conflict Theory. A linear history of causality, implementation, and significance. 1. Conflict Theory Perspective a. Margaret Sanger b. Plato’s Republic c. Negative Eugenics d. Sterilization e. Planned Parenthood Federation of America f. Legislation g. Economic Implications Early 1900’s American political movement under Margaret Sanger 1. advocate the control over individual rights to reproduction 2. purpose of societal advantage 3. rights governed by the state and supported by a public majority 4. originally designed as a method of public oppression and controlled persecution. 5. Sanger an outspoken advocate for Eugenics a. racial dominance, class restraint, and a member of the American Eugenic Political Party, opened a family planning and birth control clinic. 6. Established first Abortion Clinics in NY b. On October 16, 1916, a member of the Eugenic party movement opened a then privately funded business, now partly funded by the public, in New York City. 7. clinic’s policy on providing pregnancy termination to the impoverished and uneducated. 8. The Birth Control Review and Birth Control News for the Socialist Party Paper known as, The Call, and wrote bylaws, conditions, and doctrines for the...
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...Abortion: Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice ENGL 135, Composition Abortion: Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice Abortion is when a woman’s pregnancy is surgically terminated through the use of surgical methods or medication (Planned Parenthood, 2014). The risks associated with having an abortion are excessive bleeding which can result in death, damage to the cervix, and damage to the womb which can lead to inability to have children in the future (NHS.uk, 2014). Abortion is a very controversial topic that everyone has a different opinion on. Even though the U.S. Supreme Court declared abortions a fundamental right in the Roe v. Wade case in 1973, Americans are still divided about whether or not the procedure should be legal (ProCon.org, 2015). Although, abortion is not an option for myself, but do support women’s right to choose what is best for their own bodies and circumstances. Opponents of abortion identify themselves as pro-life. They believe that human life has value and everyone should be given a chance to live and not be murdered by having an abortion. They also believe that personhood begins at conception, and therefore abortion is the immoral killing of an innocent human being (Procon.org, 2015). They also believe that abortion inflicts suffering on the unborn child. It is unfair to allow abortion when there are couples who cannot biologically conceive and are willing and waiting to adopt (Procon.org, 2015). Pro-life supporters believe that human life is precious, worth living...
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...every two seconds In many states, abortion has been banned after 16 weeks of pregnancy and many doctors will not perform an abortion unless of a medical reason. Some small clinics such as Planned Parenthood will perform these abortions. When going to these clinics there are pro-life and pro-choice groups usually standing out front with signs. Pro-life groups favor greater restrictions on abortion. They argue that a fetus is a human being with the right to live, so abortion is murder. Pro-choice groups argue that a woman has certain reproductive rights especially the right to choose whether to carry a fetus or not. My own is that I think if there is nothing wrong with the fetus when the woman goes to her ultrasound appointments and nothing shows up and there’s no medical problems with the woman then she should keep it. One of the most common reasons a woman chooses to abort is because they want to delay a pregnancy because they are too young. However, in some cases a woman becomes pregnant from being rapped and decides to abort the baby. They do not want to live with the reminder of the rape so keeping the baby would be too hard for them. I do see the reasoning behind this, but I still believe that they could love the child and not regret their decision to keep it. According to two doctors who conducted one study, Sandra Kathleen Mahkorn, M.D. and William V. Dolan, M.D. revealed that 78% of the 30% of women who had abortions after their rapes felt that they had made...
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...time dependent on the services provided at the organization. These two trends have become problems for multiple reasons. There is currently a dispute between pro-life and pro-choice activists who you can usually see standing outside of clinics or facilities that offer abortion services. It has gotten to a point where the government is now involved in trying to settle the dispute. The other trend is people are delaying treatment because of the cost of services. In a myriad number of scenarios, this results in the cost of services escalating because the patient no longer utilizes routine and in-expensive treatment. They now require extensive treatment that is costly and with insurance companies placing the financial burden on individuals, this is becoming a major problem. These two trends collectively are major factors that can impact health care administrators and them maintaining a profitable business or covering costs for non-for profit organizations. Currently, women have the right to make the choice to have an abortion. An abortion takes place when a mother decides to terminate life of a fetus that is growing inside of her. Some states have found ways to restrict the rights of mothers in making this decision. For instance, a current case in Idaho involves a woman, Jennie Linn McCormack, who is being prosecuted because she purchased an abortion kit online and administered it on herself. Police officers were given an anonymous tip about the incident and found the fetus...
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