Funds Pulled from Planned Parenthood [UPDATE]

[dreadfulpenny81]

Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the nation's largest breast cancer charity, has pulled hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants toward breast cancer screenings from Planned Parenthood, citing it's newly implemented policy that they will not award grants to groups under investigation from the federal government. This is great news for many in the pro

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[jacobs_muse]

Yeah, this is good news.

[trevelyanl85a2]

Not really. Even though you may not like Planned Parenthood, they do provide legitimate services for people who cannot afford such things at regular clinics.

The problem with the Komen foundation is that they've been too arrogant with marketing and less on focusing on funding. I've heard a report how they tried to sue another group simply for them using the words "race for the cure" I believe. .....

[eajou]

Yeah. I tried going to "birth control centers" that were NOT Planned Parenthood and some were religious based and they told me that they couldn't even help me get birth control and I should only be calling them if I was pregnant. I'm like, dude, I'm in college and uninsured and you want me to wait to do anything with my reproductive organs UNTIL I'm pregnant. Actively seeking BC here, WHY IS THAT A BAD THING?! Planned Parenthood was the only place around here that offered anything in the way of prevention services.

[zansa_san]

Your on-campus health clinic doesn't provide BC ...?

(And many clinics with religious affiliations are for pregnancy crisis, specifically. They also typically don't condone premarital sex. If you don't want to be told to keep it in your pants, there are plenty of secular clinics to choose from.)

[eajou]

I don't live on (or near) my campus. I am finishing up my last three classes at a community college and they are being transferred into my Uni. They don't offer BC.

1. I was not looking for BC because I can't keep it in my pants, but rather because I need regulation. I can go five months with nothing, and then be dying in pain with cramps when it happens.
2. Not all the clinics had religious affiliations, even the secular clinics said the same. PP is the ONLY clinic around that helps people in lower incomes get BC.

[nisie]

My sister got her BC from the free clinic. They get funding from the federal government and gave her BC free.

[eajou]

I asked about it and got a noncommittal answer and a pat on the head. The only people who have ever been helpful at all is PP.

[zansa_san]

I did two years at community college, and I know they don't offer on-campus health services. But if you're planning on transferring to a University, or are already a registered student at one, they are more likely to offer BC, and you should check them out. Or did you mean that your University doesn't offer BC? I'm confused by the wording in your response.

I have lived with horrible cramps and terrible PMS since I started menstruating. Sometimes, you just have to suck it up and live with it if you can't afford to pay for BC to regulate it, until you are in a position to do so. Those pills cost money to make, too.

I know that PP offers other services, but I guess one has to ask oneself whether or not they feel morally comfortable patronizing a business who's bread and butter is performing abortions. *shrug*

[eajou]

I was living at the uni and they only offered condoms. Which was entirely unhelpful. Now that I'm finishing up at the CC and transferring those credits in, I am five hours away from my main Uni campus. The bread and butter for PP is not preforming abortions, it is for issues surrounding reproductive health. They just happen to preform abortions, an issue which stands out to a pro-life crowd.

I'll consider your wonderful advice telling me to suck it up the next time I have a combined massive migraine and crippling cramps and have to go to the emergency room for help. Of course, I guess I just should suck up passing out or wanting to whither on the floor and die.

I wouldn't patronize PP if there were other options out there for low-income persons. So yeah, I feel entirely comfortable patronizing them until there are other options available for people who need BC. My moral conscious is clean.

[zansa_san]

Obviously condoms would be unhelpful for the sort of problems you're having - that's a given.

And yes, yes it is. Abortion is their primary "health care" service; it's also where the majority of the funding they receive is directed. And even if it wasn't, it wouldn't matter - it's still morally, ethically unsound at any level.

I guess it can't be expected for everybody to be made of sterner stuff - I only know that I somehow manage to ride out the migraines and the nausea and the anemia every month without the help of anything stronger than Tylenol.

And that's perfectly fine. Whatever helps you sleep at night.

[eajou]

Good for you.

[kharmii]

I used to get really bad cramps and migraines during my period. Doctors put me on birth control, which helped a little. Then I found out I had endometriosis. The removal of that, plus the fact that I've given birth once, has cured all my monthly problems completely.

[kharmii]

I hope so too. I had an easy pregnancy because the labor pains were no more or less painful than the cramps I got from my period about every third time for the last twenty years. Then, for some reason, endometriosis must be a new discovery, because so many doctors put me on birth control as a cure all. When I got the endometriosis removed, they found a huge fibroid in my uterus that could have been there for who knows how long. I remember the birth control pills made me depressed and the pain was still there.