Planned Parenthood is good for the country
It makes birth control and birth control education available to people with low budgets, the poor and working class, and the young who are just getting started in the economy. Without those services, we'd have a lot more pregnancies in families and single women who couldn't afford a child (or more children,) and a lot more abortions, incidentally. We have an economic system that depends on a working class, and we will always have the poor; it's not productive or decent to leave a large slice of our people priced out of this kind of medical care. It's been the American way to keep this kind of thing out of government and in the hands of non-profits, like PP. If government didn't fund PP to do pap smears and pass out contraceptives to the poor, how would it get done?
Planned Parenthood also counsels people on healthy pregnancies, as well as preventing them, or aborting them. It's a full set of GYN services. Most of the people who see PP are not there for abortions.
There's a big distaste for sex in this country, and a feeling that we'd all be better off with less of it, and being secretive about what's left. Bull. Lying to ourselves about what we want and do is not a rational policy. I lived through the 50s. It wasn't a better time to be a woman, or to be a man, for that matter.
