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Should abortion and birth control be subsidized by the government?


I dont understand why conservatives get so weird about abortion. For the party of "small government" they sure do like telling people how to live their personal lives.
Birth control is a public good, so I'm totally fine with it being subsidized by the government, especially compared to other things that are subsidized. Abortion is a last ditch form of birth control, thereforeI'm also fine with it being subsidized.

If not for everyone, then at least for people in poverty.
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Conservatives think you can't give babies up for adoption which cost us way more.
Ad Hominem.
Abortions and birth control should be paid for entirely by tax dollars of pro-life people.
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Literally nothing should be subsidized.
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No.
Yes, it's been proven that crime goes down when there are less unwanted or unexpected pregnancies. This in turn saves the taxpayers money in law enforcement, courts, prison, etc
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FigureOfSpeech posted...
Abortions and birth control should be paid for entirely by tax dollars of pro-life people.

You really think we would have a problem with that?
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"my abortion is none of your business but I demand you pay for it"
CiIantro posted...
I dont understand why conservatives get so weird about abortion. For the party of "small government" they sure do like telling people how to live their personal lives.


If you want my money to do something, I absolutely get a say in it. Have all the abortions you want- just don't expect me to foot the bill.
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r4X0r posted...
CiIantro posted...
I dont understand why conservatives get so weird about abortion. For the party of "small government" they sure do like telling people how to live their personal lives.


If you want my money to do something, I absolutely get a say in it. Have all the abortions you want- just don't expect me to foot the bill.


But wouldn't you rather save money by providing BC and abortions as opposed to increased law enforcement, courts, public defenders, prisons and etc?
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MakoReizei posted...
"my abortion is none of your business but I demand you pay for it"

Really they don't demand it is paid for. They just want one without being harassed and demonized.
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creativerealms posted...
MakoReizei posted...
"my abortion is none of your business but I demand you pay for it"

Really they don't demand it is paid for. They just want one without being harassed and demonized.

So we can stop giving Planned Parenthood billions of dollars in taxpayer funding every year?
'It's okay that those gangbangers stole all my personal belongings and cash at gunpoint, cuz they're building a rec center!' - OneTimeBen
Yes, all healthcare should be subsidized by the government
darkjedilink posted...
creativerealms posted...
MakoReizei posted...
"my abortion is none of your business but I demand you pay for it"

Really they don't demand it is paid for. They just want one without being harassed and demonized.

So we can stop giving Planned Parenthood billions of dollars in taxpayer funding every year?

No. They provide a valuable service to the community and should be fully funded by the government
darkjedilink posted...
So we can stop giving Planned Parenthood billions of dollars in taxpayer funding every year?

Do you realize that PP does far more than just abortions?
GATTJT posted...
darkjedilink posted...
So we can stop giving Planned Parenthood billions of dollars in taxpayer funding every year?

Do you realize that PP does far more than just abortions?

Do you realize that, outside of abortion, most non-Catholic churches offer the exact services without a dime of government money?
'It's okay that those gangbangers stole all my personal belongings and cash at gunpoint, cuz they're building a rec center!' - OneTimeBen
Birth Control coverage should be mandatory for anything that covers viagra. Hell, even more than Viagra, because birth control has legitimate medical use outside of sex.
darkjedilink posted...
GATTJT posted...
darkjedilink posted...
So we can stop giving Planned Parenthood billions of dollars in taxpayer funding every year?

Do you realize that PP does far more than just abortions?

Do you realize that, outside of abortion, most non-Catholic churches offer the exact services without a dime of government money?


But with planned parenthood offering the same services, we could just not have churches anymore.
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darkjedilink posted...
GATTJT posted...
darkjedilink posted...
So we can stop giving Planned Parenthood billions of dollars in taxpayer funding every year?

Do you realize that PP does far more than just abortions?

Do you realize that, outside of abortion, most non-Catholic churches offer the exact services without a dime of government money?

Wait what? Churches provide healthcare now?
darkjedilink posted...
GATTJT posted...
darkjedilink posted...
So we can stop giving Planned Parenthood billions of dollars in taxpayer funding every year?

Do you realize that PP does far more than just abortions?

Do you realize that, outside of abortion, most non-Catholic churches offer the exact services without a dime of government money?

No, they don't. Not even close.
FigureOfSpeech posted...
darkjedilink posted...
GATTJT posted...
darkjedilink posted...
So we can stop giving Planned Parenthood billions of dollars in taxpayer funding every year?

Do you realize that PP does far more than just abortions?

Do you realize that, outside of abortion, most non-Catholic churches offer the exact services without a dime of government money?


But with planned parenthood offering the same services, we could just not have churches anymore.

This sounds like a far better solution
darkjedilink posted...
GATTJT posted...
darkjedilink posted...
So we can stop giving Planned Parenthood billions of dollars in taxpayer funding every year?

Do you realize that PP does far more than just abortions?

Do you realize that, outside of abortion, most non-Catholic churches offer the exact services without a dime of government money?


They provide 97% of PP's services for free? Source?
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Man.

Who'd have known that after having so much trouble with healthcare, my female friends could have just gone to one of the fifty churches in my town and gotten a pap smear
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ThanksUglyGod posted...
darkjedilink posted...
GATTJT posted...
darkjedilink posted...
So we can stop giving Planned Parenthood billions of dollars in taxpayer funding every year?

Do you realize that PP does far more than just abortions?

Do you realize that, outside of abortion, most non-Catholic churches offer the exact services without a dime of government money?

Wait what? Churches provide healthcare now?

Pretty much every free clinic that doesn't offer abortion services and isn't run by PP is run by a Christian church.
'It's okay that those gangbangers stole all my personal belongings and cash at gunpoint, cuz they're building a rec center!' - OneTimeBen
I better let my fiancee know she can get birth control there
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darkjedilink posted...
ThanksUglyGod posted...
darkjedilink posted...
GATTJT posted...
darkjedilink posted...
So we can stop giving Planned Parenthood billions of dollars in taxpayer funding every year?

Do you realize that PP does far more than just abortions?

Do you realize that, outside of abortion, most non-Catholic churches offer the exact services without a dime of government money?

Wait what? Churches provide healthcare now?

Pretty much every free clinic that doesn't offer abortion services and isn't run by PP is run by a Christian church.


According to infowars or breitbart?
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FigureOfSpeech posted...
darkjedilink posted...
ThanksUglyGod posted...
darkjedilink posted...
GATTJT posted...
darkjedilink posted...
So we can stop giving Planned Parenthood billions of dollars in taxpayer funding every year?

Do you realize that PP does far more than just abortions?

Do you realize that, outside of abortion, most non-Catholic churches offer the exact services without a dime of government money?

Wait what? Churches provide healthcare now?

Pretty much every free clinic that doesn't offer abortion services and isn't run by PP is run by a Christian church.


According to infowars or breitbart?

According to churches themselves.

My eldest son's first sonogram is courtesy of the Lutheran church in Willmar, MN. Their information brochures talked up all their non-abortive family planning services, adoption services, pre- and post-natal care, family checkups, etc.

Pretty exhaustive, actually, and a testament to what can be accomplished when you wean yourself off the government tit.
'It's okay that those gangbangers stole all my personal belongings and cash at gunpoint, cuz they're building a rec center!' - OneTimeBen
darkjedilink posted...
Pretty exhaustive, actually, and a testament to what can be accomplished when you wean yourself off the government tit.

Indeed, you can accomplish a lot when you don't have to pay taxes to the government and receive millions in donations.
Fuck that. Shut down all planned parenthood clinics and revoke the medical licenses of anybody who works there. A doctor's job is to SAVE lives.
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GATTJT posted...
darkjedilink posted...
Pretty exhaustive, actually, and a testament to what can be accomplished when you wean yourself off the government tit.

Indeed, you can accomplish a lot when you don't have to pay taxes to the government and receive millions in donations.

So why does PP need government funding? They're just as tax-exempt as churches.
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Prestoff posted...
darkjedilink posted...
GATTJT posted...
darkjedilink posted...
So we can stop giving Planned Parenthood billions of dollars in taxpayer funding every year?

Do you realize that PP does far more than just abortions?

Do you realize that, outside of abortion, most non-Catholic churches offer the exact services without a dime of government money?

LOL no, they wouldn't even provide contraceptions because Catholics believe every sperm is sacred. So yes, Catholics believe that masturbation is a sin lol.

What do Catholics have to do with what I posted?
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Yeah, I just deleted my post. Reading comprehension.
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darkjedilink posted...
FigureOfSpeech posted...
darkjedilink posted...
ThanksUglyGod posted...
darkjedilink posted...
GATTJT posted...
darkjedilink posted...
So we can stop giving Planned Parenthood billions of dollars in taxpayer funding every year?

Do you realize that PP does far more than just abortions?

Do you realize that, outside of abortion, most non-Catholic churches offer the exact services without a dime of government money?

Wait what? Churches provide healthcare now?

Pretty much every free clinic that doesn't offer abortion services and isn't run by PP is run by a Christian church.


According to infowars or breitbart?

According to churches themselves.

My eldest son's first sonogram is courtesy of the Lutheran church in Willmar, MN. Their information brochures talked up all their non-abortive family planning services, adoption services, pre- and post-natal care, family checkups, etc.

Pretty exhaustive, actually, and a testament to what can be accomplished when you wean yourself off the government tit.


Okay, that started off as not all that interesting of a story, but I liked that part at the end. Good for you for weaning yourself off the government tit.
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Villain posted...
r4X0r posted...
CiIantro posted...
I dont understand why conservatives get so weird about abortion. For the party of "small government" they sure do like telling people how to live their personal lives.


If you want my money to do something, I absolutely get a say in it. Have all the abortions you want- just don't expect me to foot the bill.


But wouldn't you rather save money by providing BC and abortions as opposed to increased law enforcement, courts, public defenders, prisons and etc?


Yes, which is why we should stop subsidizing single moms to be full-time baby factories and creating these situations in the first place. You think it's just a coincidence that kids born out of wedlock and into poverty multiplied to historic levels since the "war on poverty," even though birth control and abortion didn't exist before that?
What churches do is irrelevant to the fact that PP's services nonetheless extend far beyond abortion.
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Dragonblade01 posted...
What churches do is irrelevant to the fact that PP's services nonetheless extend far beyond abortion.

And that's irrelevant to the fact that, since government funds cannot be used for abortion, and everything else can be 100% funded by private donation, they don't need government funding in any way.
'It's okay that those gangbangers stole all my personal belongings and cash at gunpoint, cuz they're building a rec center!' - OneTimeBen
yes, Planned Parenthood does more than abortions

yes, Planned Parenthood is important for many things

but abortions are also an important aspect of women's health, and they should be covered 100% by the state
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darkjedilink posted...
Dragonblade01 posted...
What churches do is irrelevant to the fact that PP's services nonetheless extend far beyond abortion.

And that's irrelevant to the fact that, since government funds cannot be used for abortion, and everything else can be 100% funded by private donation, they don't need government funding in any way.


And human beings don't need electricity. Doesn't mean we should shut down the entire power grid and go back to dark ages.
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darkjedilink posted...
Dragonblade01 posted...
What churches do is irrelevant to the fact that PP's services nonetheless extend far beyond abortion.

And that's irrelevant to the fact that, since government funds cannot be used for abortion, and everything else can be 100% funded by private donation, they don't need government funding in any way.

Doesn't mean if they don't "need" it or not, it should still have it
Darklit_Minuet posted...
darkjedilink posted...
Dragonblade01 posted...
What churches do is irrelevant to the fact that PP's services nonetheless extend far beyond abortion.

And that's irrelevant to the fact that, since government funds cannot be used for abortion, and everything else can be 100% funded by private donation, they don't need government funding in any way.

Doesn't mean if they don't "need" it or not, it should still have it

No, they shouldn't. PP has no right to steal other people's property at gunpoint.
'It's okay that those gangbangers stole all my personal belongings and cash at gunpoint, cuz they're building a rec center!' - OneTimeBen
FigureOfSpeech posted...
darkjedilink posted...
Dragonblade01 posted...
What churches do is irrelevant to the fact that PP's services nonetheless extend far beyond abortion.

And that's irrelevant to the fact that, since government funds cannot be used for abortion, and everything else can be 100% funded by private donation, they don't need government funding in any way.

And human beings don't need electricity. Doesn't mean we should shut down the entire power grid and go back to dark ages.

Last time I checked, the government wasn't stealing my property at gunpoint to give to my energy company they can literally kill people on a daily basis.
'It's okay that those gangbangers stole all my personal belongings and cash at gunpoint, cuz they're building a rec center!' - OneTimeBen
MakoReizei posted...
"my abortion is none of your business but I demand you pay for it"

I paid less than a cent for this and I deserve to be involved!
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darkjedilink posted...
Darklit_Minuet posted...
darkjedilink posted...
Dragonblade01 posted...
What churches do is irrelevant to the fact that PP's services nonetheless extend far beyond abortion.

And that's irrelevant to the fact that, since government funds cannot be used for abortion, and everything else can be 100% funded by private donation, they don't need government funding in any way.

Doesn't mean if they don't "need" it or not, it should still have it

No, they shouldn't. PP has no right to steal other people's property at gunpoint.

God this is astronomically stupid. You one of those taxes = theft people?
Ad Hominem.
Darklit_Minuet posted...
Yes, all healthcare should be subsidized by the government
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Webmaster4531 posted...
darkjedilink posted...
Darklit_Minuet posted...
darkjedilink posted...
Dragonblade01 posted...
What churches do is irrelevant to the fact that PP's services nonetheless extend far beyond abortion.

And that's irrelevant to the fact that, since government funds cannot be used for abortion, and everything else can be 100% funded by private donation, they don't need government funding in any way.

Doesn't mean if they don't "need" it or not, it should still have it

No, they shouldn't. PP has no right to steal other people's property at gunpoint.

God this is astronomically stupid. You one of those taxes = theft people?

If it's so stupid, why does PP have so much more of a right to my property than I do that they can take it at gunpoint, when all their services save one are offered elsewhere without such?
'It's okay that those gangbangers stole all my personal belongings and cash at gunpoint, cuz they're building a rec center!' - OneTimeBen
LordRazziel posted...
MakoReizei posted...
"my abortion is none of your business but I demand you pay for it"

I paid less than a cent for this and I deserve to be involved!


That's more than the other half of the country pays.
darkjedilink posted...
Webmaster4531 posted...
darkjedilink posted...
Darklit_Minuet posted...
darkjedilink posted...
Dragonblade01 posted...
What churches do is irrelevant to the fact that PP's services nonetheless extend far beyond abortion.

And that's irrelevant to the fact that, since government funds cannot be used for abortion, and everything else can be 100% funded by private donation, they don't need government funding in any way.

Doesn't mean if they don't "need" it or not, it should still have it

No, they shouldn't. PP has no right to steal other people's property at gunpoint.

God this is astronomically stupid. You one of those taxes = theft people?

If it's so stupid, why does PP have so much more of a right to my property than I do that they can take it at gunpoint , when all their services save one are offered elsewhere without such?

Stop saying that. Paying taxes isn't theft.
darkjedilink posted...
Dragonblade01 posted...
What churches do is irrelevant to the fact that PP's services nonetheless extend far beyond abortion.

And that's irrelevant to the fact that, since government funds cannot be used for abortion, and everything else can be 100% funded by private donation, they don't need government funding in any way.

Churches can perhaps afford to do (almost) everything through private donations. But PP isn't a church. Furthermore, I don't see this necessary exclusivity that you do regarding things receiving private donations vs. government funding.
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I don't know what the fuck we're arguing about at this point in the topic, but to answer the OP, this article seems relevant.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/study-colorado-family-planning-program-greatly-reduced-pregnancies-abortions-among-young-women

A state family planning program has significantly reduced the states teen birth rate and abortion rate among teens and young women, according to analysis from the University of Colorado.

The study found Colorados Title X Family Planning Program helped provide IUDs or birth control implants to nearly 44,000 people between 2009 and 2016.

It also found that for women aged 15 to 19, the states birth rate fell by 54 percent over the same time period. The birth rate fell by 30 percent for women aged 20 to 24, the study found.
Over that time period, the average age of a womans first birth in Colorado increased by more than a year among all women.

It also found that abortion rates among women aged 15 to 19 fell by 64 percent from 2009 to 2016, and that the rate declined by 41 percent for women aged 20 to 24 in Colorado.

The percentage of teens giving birth for the second or third time fell by 63 percent.

As a result of the drop in unintended births, the study says, between $66.1 million and $69.6 million in state and federal money was saved that would have otherwise been spent on health care and other help for low-income women and their children.
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