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I mean, honestly. The baby can’t thank you if he or she is dead. Let’s get real.
Planned Parenthood does many other helpful services that are not abortion. A lot of PP’s don’t even offer abortions. The prenatal care they offer is wonderful and affordable. Let’s get real.
Your time would be better spent taking a class on not sucking at Photoshop, OP.
Congratulations on finding a nice piece of propaganda to copy-paste, OP! (And much congratulations to whichever anti-choicer scrounged up a calculator and found the divide key!)
I don’t know if you’re just a superhuman with no medical needs whatsoever, but sometimes people need to go to the doctor for multiple things, over multiple visits in one year. We get sick. We run out of prescription refills. Unexpected things happen.
I personally have been to Planned Parenthood multiple times in the last year- for my annual Pap/birth control appointment, and then on several other occasions to be treated for urinary tract infections.
Yes, I am only one person, but Planned Parenthood has helped me multiple times. They have rendered multiple services. They have spent multiple appointment slots, multiple laboratory tests, multiple sliding scale fees because I’m a poor grad student, and multiple hours of the doctors’/nurses’/lab techs’/receptionists’ time on me. They are right to report each instance of serving me as an individual service rendered. The fact that my urinary tract is a terrible hotbed of recurring infection is irrelevant.
So when you (or really, the author of this image, because you have yet to demonstrate any semblance of independent thought) imply that Planned Parenthood is somehow dishonest by reporting their services rendered as individual services rendered, you are only serving to prove that you have no knowledge of our medical care system.
For any action X that a PP healthcare provider performs on a patient, (whether that be an STI test, Pap smear, birth control consultation, IUD insertion, or administering antibiotics for someone’s 10th UTI that year), only 3 in 100 of those Xs will be an abortion. It doesn’t matter if one patient needs ten things in one visit, those ten things are still separate services that PP works hard and depletes resources to provide.
As for your allegations about the money Planned Parenthood makes on abortion: No fucking shit.
In the United States, the Hyde Amendment blocks all federal Medicaid programs from covering abortion services. The majority of states also block state Medicaid coverage of abortions. Some states have also passed bans on using private insurance coverage for abortion, and most insurance plans don’t cover elective abortion anyway. Every last person who walks into Planned Parenthood for an abortion must find a way to finance it. PP cannot and does not subsidize abortion care
Compare this to contraception, STI testing/treatment, and cancer screenings, all of which are heavily subsidized by local and federal programs such as Title X. A huge number of people who walk into Planned Parenthood for non-abortion services receive their care at a reduced (or nonexistent) fee, sometimes at a loss by PP.
But don’t take my word for it, let’s actually look at the numbers:
In 2009-2010, Planned Parenthood made a total of $320.1 million from its health clinics. This is the money paid by patients to PP for services rendered and accounts for 36% of PP’s total revenue that year.
That’s only one-third of the money PP needs to stay in business. It’s not exactly a cash cow.
In 2009-2010, Planned Parenthood’s operating budget exceeded $1 billion. And 46% of their revenue came from government services, grants, and reimbursements.
But none of that almost half of PP’s income can be used on abortions. None.
So yes, people who want abortions from PP have to pay for them. That’s now healthcare works in this country, especially when private and public insurance programs are banned from paying for a certain service.
It costs money to keep a health clinic running. Planned Parenthood must pay its doctors, nurses, lab staff, receptionists, and building maintenance employees. Every procedure, from Pap smears to UTI urinalysis, requires expensive medical equipment, some of which must be replaced for every patient.
And, thanks to the “pro-life” movement, Planned Parenthood must pay for security measures above and beyond anything required for any other health clinic. My local Planned Parenthood is equipped with security guards, bulletproof glass, and a system of doors that everyone must be buzzed through- and this PP doesn’t even provide abortions.
My apologies, the terrorist nature of the anti-choice movement got me a little derailed. If you’ll return your attention to the 2009-2010 annual report once more, I’d just like to point out that PP spends 68% of its money on medical services, another 15% on non-medical program services (mostly comprehensive sexual education and outreach), and 1% on international family planning. This is an organization that spends 84% on dedicated program services, earning it four stars from CharityNavigator.org.
And just in case you still think Planned Parenthood is making billions and billions of dollars (mua ha ha ha) off its patients: in 2009-2010, PP earned $18 million in excess of its >$1 billion (that’s $1029 million) operating expenses. That’s like if you made a budget of $100, and in the end you had $1.70 extra. No one is getting rich off abortions.
And as for your minor hissy fit over “90% of pregnant people get abortions at PP!!!!!11” - you’re looking at the wrong numbers.
One of PP’s most crucial services to pregnant people are free or low-cost pregnancy tests administered by medical professionals. In 2009, PP administered over one million of these. An official pregnancy test (blood or urine) is what millions of low-income individuals need to get onto Medicaid and other forms of social assistance that they will need to have and raise their child.
Once an individual has a Planned Parenthood doctor’s certification that they are pregnant, they can use their Medicaid coverage to see a permanent OB/GYN in a private practice. They may not come back to Planned Parenthood over the course of their pregnancy, but Planned Parenthood still made it possible for them to continue their pregnancy and raise their child.
And no, religiously motivated “Crisis Pregnancy Centers” cannot provide the same service, because while they do offer drugstore urine stick pregnancy tests, they are not staffed with medical professionals and cannot legally certify a pregnancy.
So when you claim that 90% of pregnant people at PP want abortions, you are ignoring the millions of people who go to PP suspecting they are pregnant and who receive help in getting prenatal care from outside doctors. And you are ignoring the people who find out they aren’t pregnant, and then receive the help and contraception they need to make sure they never have an unwanted pregnancy.
Planned Parenthood is a multifaceted organization that helps literally millions of people with millions of different life situations. Sit down and leave the math to the professionals.
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this is a wonderously thorough take down. love it!
Reblogging for commentary.
When I was a kid, I used to go over to friend’s houses and notice that their parents never seemed to bully them or hit them. I assumed this was just because they had a friend over, and that their parents terrorized them all the time when I wasn’t around. I didn’t identify my situation as abuse or reach out to a teacher or counselor because I thought everyone had to live through this. I was probably twenty by the time I realized that some families really don’t humiliate and belittle their kids, ever.
I wish someone had gotten that through to me. I wish instead of saying vaguely and uncomfortably “you can talk to the counselor if you have problems at home,” my teachers had said flat-out “it is not normal to be afraid of your parents, and not normal to be unhappy whenever you’re at home, and you can ask us if you’re not sure if something’s okay or not.” I wish someone could have taught me that wanting to be safe was human instead of selfish.
And I’m probably going to make a whole post about this so I won’t belabor the point right now, but this is why feminists care about media and memes that normalize rape. (Or that stigmatize the words “rape” and “rapist,” but enthusiastically normalize the act of forcing sex on people, as long as you don’t call it that.) Because it tells people that rape is normal, that it’s a popular and accepted way to express romance and/or dominance, and we can’t assume that everyone absorbing this culture knows “of course that’s not how it really works.”
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The Pervocracy, Everyone else is doing it… right? (via slutwalksignideas) !!! I wish someone could have taught me that wanting to be safe was human instead of selfish. (via newmodelminority) |
Just a pool, disguised as a pond, with a trampoline instead of a diving board.
I wrote a paper about these kinds of pools several years ago for a class when they were just prototypes. These pools have a natural filtration system that run based on the plants that are in the pool that give the water nutrients that allow it to not only be crystal clear, but you are also able to drink the water because it becomes so clean. And the best part is that once the initial filtration system is installed and calibrated, it maintains itself and eliminates the need for chlorine or constant maintenance like salt water pools.
i want this pool, the whole thing.
I want to go to there…
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YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!!!
| - JAG lawyer, speaking to my husband’s plant during Sexual Assault Prevention Month. (via circusbones) |
Fuck Yeah Feminist Thor.
David Tennant what are you even part of this universe.
but, I love you.
One of the very few things I will instantly reblog every time probably.
I will always reblog this XD
never not reblogging this
how the hell did he jump that high
he’s david tennantt that’s how
hes a timelord
timelords have springs in their feet
A wonderful thing is a Time Lord
A Time Lord is a wonderful thing
Their tops are made out of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs
They’re bouncy, bouncy, timey-wimey
fun, fun, fun, fun, fun
And the most wonderful thing about Time Lords is
I’m the only—oh.
Now you go sit in the corner and think about how you’ve ruined a happy post
Reblogging for the comments. I applaud you tumblr.
