Ending Medicaid Payments to Planned Parenthood

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ENDING MEDICAID PAYMENTS TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD

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Ending Medicaid Payments to Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is a national non-profit organization that advocates for reproductive health in the U.S. with affiliates nationwide and operate in every state. Planned Parenthood centers offer care in routine gynecological exams, breast and cervical cancer screenings, contraceptive services, abortion care, sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment, and HIV testing and education to three million women, men, and adolescents. (“Planned Parenthood Action”, 2015). One would think then, that such a prestigious organization that offers these much-needed medical services to individuals would be on the receiving end of as much funding as possible and advocating for more and would be operating beyond approach. Why then, have States such as Arkansas, Louisiana, Utah, Alabama and New Hampshire, all taken steps to defund Medicaid payments to this ‘prestigious’ organization? What would be that line that had to have been crossed to pave the way for such drastic actions? Is it justified? The answer, human trafficking and a resounding ‘yes’ for its justifiability!

Planned Parenthood offers a number of services for women mostly, who otherwise cannot afford proper medical care or even mediocre medical care at best. So when Arkansas Governor, Asa Hutchinson, held a press conference covered by news outlets such as MSNBC and ABC news in August 2015, to put an end to Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood, despite numerous Federal warnings, only to join other States who had already done so, was a monumental move and an in depth review had to be undertaken.

The cause, required little searching. Human trafficking, the illegal selling of body parts. Who would think a prestigious organization such as this would be involved in something so gruesome? But that is exactly...