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Cerritos College • Norwalk, Calif.

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No sense in aborting the parenthood plan

With the government trying to cut spending, Planned Parenthood is looking like the next program to get the ax.

The recent House decision to cut funding to PP will not only add to our deficit, but it will be signing a death warrant for the nearly five million people who use PP’s services, according to the PP website.

The House seems to believe that cutting this vital program will reduce spending.

Of course it will, for the first nine months at least.

PP provides low-income citizens and families with birth control and Plan B, the morning after pill.

Cutting access to free contraceptives can, and will, lead to unwanted births and add to the 31.6 million people, according to the U.S. Census, already living in poverty and under government welfare.

Although cheap contraceptives are available, we can’t be optimistic and believe that people who don’t have money to pay for their bills will go out and buy a pack of condoms.

Not only does PP provide family planning, it also provides free STD screenings, pap tests, breast exams, consultations and more.

Without access to these screenings, people who can’t afford doctor visits can go on for years living with syphilis, chlamydia, gonorrhea, HIV and AIDS.

Add to that the women who are denied breast cancer screenings and pap smears, and Christina Aguilera can start singing, “O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave, o’er the land of the pregnant and the home of the diseased,” and no one will give her heat for it.

This vote is not only an ignorant and ill-thought out decision, it will also set the women’s rights movement back at least 50 years.

Betty Friedan, a women’s liberation movement icon and founder of the National Organization for Women, stated in her Women’s Bill of Rights that women had “the right to control their own reproduction by removing from penal codes the laws limiting access to contraceptive information and devices and laws governing abortion.”

Women should have the right to control their bodies, and the government should give them access to the tools they need.

It doesn’t matter what your feelings are toward PP;  is it really a good decision to cut it?

If this amendment passes, Friedan will be turning in her grave.

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