![Republicans’ hate of women’s health, visualized (from GOOD.is):
The pie chart above depicts all the services Planned Parenthood centers around the country provided in 2009. As you can clearly see, only three percent of those services were abortions, while the majority of the other 97 percent were STD tests, contraception provisions, and cancer screenings. In other words, relative to its other services, Planned Parenthood does almost no abortions at all. And of the abortions it does provide, not a single one is paid for with federal funds. Read more
[Meanwhile,] “Pro-life” Republicans are targeting Title X funding, which provides contraception and sexual health advice to millions of needy Americans, and more specifically Planned Parenthood, whose contraception and sexual health services (but not abortion services) are partially supported by Title X. In 2009, Planned Parenthood performed a total of 332,278 abortions (pdf), a number that congressional Republicans apparently find intolerable. According to Guttmacher, however, if the government were to cut all Title X funding, we could expect 406,000 more abortions every year. Read more
Can someone explain to me what small government has to do with women’s health care? How have the mainstream GOP shifted focus from fiscal responsibility to being the morality police? If the GOP was actually so concerned about reckless government spending, why did it allow the previous administration to launch into the two longest foreign wars the USA has ever fought?](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljdyz4HzjY1qzdwdxo1_500.jpg)
Republicans’ hate of women’s health, visualized (from GOOD.is):
The pie chart above depicts all the services Planned Parenthood centers around the country provided in 2009. As you can clearly see, only three percent of those services were abortions, while the majority of the other 97 percent were STD tests, contraception provisions, and cancer screenings. In other words, relative to its other services, Planned Parenthood does almost no abortions at all. And of the abortions it does provide, not a single one is paid for with federal funds. Read more
[Meanwhile,] “Pro-life” Republicans are targeting Title X funding, which provides contraception and sexual health advice to millions of needy Americans, and more specifically Planned Parenthood, whose contraception and sexual health services (but not abortion services) are partially supported by Title X. In 2009, Planned Parenthood performed a total of 332,278 abortions (pdf), a number that congressional Republicans apparently find intolerable. According to Guttmacher, however, if the government were to cut all Title X funding, we could expect 406,000 more abortions every year. Read more
Can someone explain to me what small government has to do with women’s health care? How have the mainstream GOP shifted focus from fiscal responsibility to being the morality police? If the GOP was actually so concerned about reckless government spending, why did it allow the previous administration to launch into the two longest foreign wars the USA has ever fought?
