Strollerderby

Their argument makes a lot less sense when you consider that if you can't help low-income women avoid having babies, the government has to help to pay to feed them and educate them, so one way or another, the tax dollars are going to go to those same people (might as well use that money to give them choices, not to feed children they were forced to have).

Also: duh.

How would this happen without actually getting rid of Title X funding? Or is that the proposed vehicle - eliminating Title X?

Oh, and Bunny: Low-income women are supposed to give their babies to married heterosexual couples in higher economic brackets to adopt, not raise them themselves. Didn't you get the memo? That contingent is all about Adoption, Not Abortion (and certainly not supporting single or impoverished parenting)!

When I was a teenager, I got my first pap smear & some necessary health care at a Planned Parenthood.  I was a virgin, I wasn't sexually active but 12 hours a day in a leotard at dance camp turned out to be very bad for me in some predictible ways.  This was a time when my mom was a single parent and we didn't have health care.  No PP = less access to low cost community based health care which is a bad thing, especially in this economic environment.

I really wanted a midwife birth when I found out I was pregnant with my first son.  Planned Parenthood was the only midwifery practice within 50 miles of my home.  

The prenatal care and whole birthing process was so wonderful, that when I got pregnant with my second son, I went to PP again.

We recently moved, and when I got pregnant with my third boy, I searched out the PP.  In my new state, the PPs don't offer prenatal care, and I ended up with a more "upscale" midwifery clinic.  My experience and the birth of the youngest was fine, but really, no where near as good as the care I got from Linda at the PP.

I know I am the minority here but Go Rebublicans!! I am very anti-planned parenthood. In my area we have county health clinics that offer the same prenatal care and contraceptive distribution and pap smears for free that planned parenthood offer. However, when you are funded by referrels to abortion clinics how can you be considered any better than a person who hires a hitman?

Oh and before you decide that I am anti-mom, I work in a pro-life shelter for teen moms. I strongly support a woman's choice to raise her baby no matter her circumstances. I, of course, also support adoption.

You and I will obviously never agree on abortion, Twyla, but thanks for the work you're doing with mothers who need some help to raise their children themselves. I'm not anti-adoption, but I am anti-coercison in adoption. Can't say that the "adoption counseling" materials I ordered recently from Family Research Council ("Birth Mother, Good Mother - Her Story of Heroic Redemption") have left me feeling much more optimistic about the pro-relinquishment propoganda some CPCs are doling out these days. Have you read this? Do you have any insight on it? What is up with this BS?

Abortion is for pregnant women who don't want to be pregnant and give birth to a baby. In my experience, the decision to have an abortion can come from a deeply moral and maternal place, just as can the decision to take a pregnancy to fruition. I won't try to convince you that abortion should be a safe, legal, and accessible option for all women (including economically accessible, which in this country requires subsidization), bcecause that's a waste of both of our time. Instead, I will simply hope that all the young women you're working with made a freewill decision to become mothers, and that they receive the support they deserve in order to do the good job they want to do for their kids.

Just another shout out for PP from someone who did use it for basic health care when I was broke and uninsured.