Is Planned Parenthood The Only Healthcare Option?
Bruce Japsen, a Forbes Contributor, defended the continued federal funding of Planned Parenthood’s 700 health centers. He appeared on The Road To Freedom on The FOX News Channel on August 8, 2015. He said that, if patients “Like their health center, they can’t keep it…”
But is this true? Or a mis-direction? Is Planned Parenthood a woman’s only access to healthcare?
If the Planned Parenthood story is covered at all, Japsen and other abortion -friendly surrogates echo the talking points of Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood’s CEO. The government subsidies must continue, they claim, because women depend on them as a last-line of healthcare defense. As Richards says, “Planned Parenthood is their only doctor…”
Japsen, who writes on healthcare, has perhaps chosen to overlook at least three points:
1) There are over 5,000 hospitals in the USA. Every citizen in every community in America can follow the ubiquitous signage, the blue “H” pointing the way to healthcare.
2) Planned Parenthood is not the sole source for women’s primary care. There are some 9,000 urgent care facilities. And 2,000 pregnancy care centers (many located within sight of a Planned Parenthood office).
3) Defunding Federal tax dollars does not mean any Planned Parenthood office must close. Indeed, the reverse has occurred. As the funding for Planned Parenthood has increased, the number of clinics has decreased.
And there has been no media backlash over Planned Parenthood’s reduced “access.” Because ‘healthcare’ has not been reduced. Americans United for Life reminds us that the real business of Cecile Richards is not patient care.
Richards is in a different business. Planned Parenthood is Big Abortion Inc.
Planned Parenthood has a corporate mandate that each of its affiliates must perform abortions. Over half of Planned Parenthood’s profits are generated by abortions.
The purpose is not healthcare; it is profit.
A woman seeking healthcare has a number of alternatives to Planned Parenthood.
But does Bruce Japsen have a point? Do patients going to Planned Parenthood enjoy an intimate doctor-patient relationship?
No. Not from Planned Parenthood. A former clinic director tells us that, “there is no doctor-patient relationship.”
And Cecile Richards would like to create even more distance between the clinician and patient. Planned Parenthood is aggressively pushing for doing abortions by webcam.
This is not an organization that values patients.