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Psst… fellow dudes. I’ve got a secret for you.
This whole Planned Parenthood thing, doesn’t just affect women. I mean, it does mostly… sure. But check it out.
Do you enjoy sexual activity? Are you pretty stoked about not having any STDs? Are you maybe sleeping with people who aren’t making a zillion dollars a year?
Planned Parenthood provides free or discounted STD tests, treatments and education. They also give out condoms, which like… means you may not have to buy as many in an awkward UBER stop on the way home from the bar.
Like boobies? I like boobies. I like them cancer free, myself. Mostly because cancer sucks and girls with cancer are busy thinking about other stuff and not your access to boobies.
Planned Parenthood provides access to free or discounted cancer screenings, HPV vaccines and screenings, PAP smears, all sorts of stuff.
But dude, you’re in a long-term committed relationship and don’t have to worry about all that, you say? That’s rad! I’m excited for you, but dude… now that you’ve solved the STD problem you gotta worry about an accidental Mini-Me cause you’re not making zillions of dollars either and those kids just NEVER STOP WANTING TO EAT.
It’s cool though, Planned Parenthood has you covered, bro. They provide free or discounted availability to doctors who can prescribe the pill. Now, sadly, the great magicians of the Pharmacology world have not yet figured out a way to make a pill that stops dudes from growing little Michael Phelps’ who just go for that Olympic Gold egg, so your female partner is going to have to make the decision for herself if the pill is right for her, but Planned Parenthood has all the information on that too. They’ve even got fancy implants that goalie stop those little Phelps for months on end so you can keep on enjoying not having children together.
Do you also enjoy not having children with that super hot person you don’t really know, but maybe after a few drinks you connected emotionally and spiritually enough to dance the wild wu-tusu? Maybe that corner store condom had been on the shelf and wasn’t up to the rigors of the task?
Yes, it is true, in addition to all the other things Planned Parenthood provides, they also provide access to abortions and Plan B. If you’ve ever been faced with someone making this decision, it’s rough. It’s not easy, often times on both sides. While they do perform the operation, they also provide counseling and education surrounding abortions.
So, if you’re super against that small part of their services, that’s cool. I get that I won’t be able to change your mind. It’s a super valid position to exercise your personal freedoms not to use those part of their services. It really is…
But, here’s the other thing. They’re not for you, and this is not just for any one individual interest. This is one of those things that affect everyone. If you’re standing on the side of those who want to take away all these those from people to comply to your personal, very reasonable choice not to utilize, you’re also losing your access to STD, cancer-free boobies. And if your tango partner has no access to affordable, safe pregnancy management resources, that means you’re now 50% of a little sleepless, endlessly hungry, expensive half-clone’s entire world.
Just think about that the next time you meet that special someone at 2 a.m., just before the lights turn on. Save the boobies, save the world.
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Reply to Mackay Williams Jan13’17 gdmenprjct: All great unless you are a living human with feelings, thoughts, a soul, RIGHTS!, a heartbeat, brainwaves, facial expressions, reactions to pain & stimulus, yet you simply haven’t been born yet. Your 80+ years of potential life will be thrown in the trash as you are decapitated & dismembered or skull punctured with caustic poison. All because of a few final weeks of discomfort, career or social life of a macabre “mother” who would murder her own child! Who could murder their own child?? A “mother” who had all the CHOICE in the world… Read more »
And BTW “Planned Parenthood doesn’t offer mammograms. They perform breast exams and give referrals to outside clinics that provide mammograms.
ALL of the services you mentioned can be obtained through countless OTHER facilities. PPH is the leader in the abortion industry. You said a small part of their business, “323,999 abortion procedures in the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, 2014”
Planned Parenthood chops up human babies and sells their body parts for cold hard cash. Sound extreme? Then Ben Shapiro dares you to watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhoFNmMeO8k
That is absolutely false, has been proven repeatedly as a hoax and the perpetrator of this has been arrested and charged with felony fraud. http://time.com/4194226/planned-parenthood-david-daleiden-felony/
Daleiden has been cleared of all charges by the Harris County DA. This after a Harris county judged completely dismissed the case against Daleiden.
“Planned Parenthood provides free or discounted STD tests, treatments and education” So, you are saying that women don’t have access to these medical services through ObamaCare? Isn’t it the case that everyone is supposed to have health insurance now? “They also give out condoms..” Since PP is taxpayer supported (at least in part), then the tax payers are buying your condoms. If you can’t afford a condom, you can’t afford to have sex. “It’s cool though, Planned Parenthood has you covered, bro. They provide free or discounted availability to doctors who can prescribe the pill.” Again, a woman can get… Read more »
My argument was in fact for public health and the ACA. If repealed as intended by President-elect Trump, and Planned Parenthood is defunded, there are very few options for safe reproductive health. Your argument seems to be against taxation, which is a legitimate point of view, I just believe you are incorrect. The amount of money that you personally are paying for Planned Parenthood is probably in the cents per year range. PP receives, according to a conservative leaning source is 500,000,000 per year. Our national budget is 534 BILLION dollars. (or .09% of your taxation). Is that a reasonable… Read more »
I piity you, snowflake liberals. And I mean it. Not an irony. Planned Parenthood chops up human babies and sells their body parts for cold hard cash. Sound extreme? Then Ben Shapiro dares you to watch this video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhoFNmMeO8k
“So, if you’re super against that small part of their services, that’s cool. I get that I won’t be able to change your mind. It’s a super valid position to exercise your personal freedoms not to use those part of their services. It really is…” That isn’t true. Some men may want the child when the woman doesn’t. Planned Parenthood being de-funded means women have the exact same reproductive options men have post conception, none. Men don’t have the option to be a dad if they choose, she could always abort. Also if she can’t legally abort, you know if… Read more »
Planned Parenthood being defunded will only make safe, legal abortions more difficult to obtain, bringing us back to a pre-Roe V Wade world where women died frequently and horrifically by people performing this operation without regulation or the safety of a hospital, it will not change the law that abortions are legal in the United States. I find fault in your argument that women are putting babies up for adoption after claiming an abortion. I’m not sure if you’ve interacted much with the adoption world, but it’s not a simple process that takes considerable time and is governed by some… Read more »
Adoption like a lot of legal issues is sometimes forum shopped. People go to states such as Utah where the adoption regulations are little more than legal kidnapping. I’ve heard stories from men, granted they’re not common, who’ve had girlfriends / former girlfriends they thought had an abortion only to find out months later that his child was placed for adoption. My issue with abortion isn’t so much an issue with the abortion, but an issue with one person having the sole decision to greatly affect the lives of at least two people. I don’t see how you can have… Read more »
Well, biologically, we women bear the physical AND (more of) the emotional burden of the pregnancy, not to mention the consequences when a dude can bail at any time post pregnancy (an issue if u have an “oops” with someone you don’t know very well). Soooo your argument is largely based on biology. Take it up with god or whatever force you believe created us. So yeah, ultimately when it comes down to it it IS our choice because it’s our bodies and try as you might you can’t control another person’s body (unless you’re a fan of rape, I… Read more »
Sorry girl. But you in Gary had your choice shall we say the moment you said yes. Then it went south. So the fellow now has parental rights too, which you conveniently forget because now it’s your body. Man this is so fucked up to be inconceivable. No pun intended.
@ An actual female who has experienced this “when it comes down to it it IS our choice because it’s our bodies and try as you might you can’t control another person’s body” Sure they can. Government does this all the time. It’s called conscription. It’s called child support because being forced to work for someone else benefit isn’t doing with your body what you want. It’s called infant circumcision (which actually has a lifetime effect, not just 9 months). It’s called holding an innocent person in pre-trial detention. It usually comes down to balancing the interests of each individual… Read more »
So true!
How a few weeks of discomfort, career or social life is deemed more valuable or worthy of rights than the entire 80+ year lifespan of a living human baby is beyond me!
Murder is Murder, plain & simple!
Murdering one’s own child is a far greater burden on ones self and humanity.
Glad to see you correctly refer to the unborn baby as Human.
“Safety of a hospital” ????
Real safe if you’re a helpless, innocent, defenceless Living Human Being that hasn’t been born yet.
Far more women die from “safe” abortions (not to mention the physical & emotional toll of this macabre and unnatural act of murder) than from allowing the healthy & natural process of life to take it’s course. duh!