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  • Essay / Planned Parenthood: A Fight for the Right to Abortion

    In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court's outcome was that women had the right to choose abortion, making it legal. As previously noted, current figures 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 funding for abortion, so there should be no question of even considering cutting the services they provide because critics think all they do is abortions. Planned Parenthood's purpose is to help and educate, and they have done so much to prove it. Planned Parenthood offers services at a certain price so that everyone has the chance to obtain these basic health services and denying access to them would cause great harm to the population. Defunding Planned Parenthood would do more harm than good, for example, women who come to Planned Parenthood are looking to get affordable birth control, if they don't have that access like before, it would would likely lead to more and more unwanted pregnancies. abortions. The organization's services effectively reduce the number of abortions (Finn). As previously mentioned, Planned Parenthood prevented 584,000 unintended pregnancies in 2010, proving that the organization's primary focus is not abortion as critics of the organization claim. Everyone has the right to Planned Parenthood services