Planned Parenthood funding fight heats up

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We asked our followers what they thought of the push to defund Planned Parenthood. A republic provides options, even if we don’t agree. When we remove choice, we’re doing more harm.

@ParanormalSarah

Abortion is the evil without parallel in our time. Defund Planned Parenthood.

@revjonrobbins

Those pushing to defund Planned Parenthood don’t understand how it helps men, women and children. They think it’s all abortion.

@SueClarkArt

Transfer their funds to federally funded community clinics for those in need.

@GHFerdinand

The push is ridiculous and shameful. It is harming poor women only.

@dberl0909

We should never have been supporting them financially in the first place. They’re barbarians.

@RedVelv87704478

If you want to deny women health screening and birth control, and if you want lots of unwanted pregnancies, then go for it.

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Commentary writer Ruben Navarrette

has poignantly captured the ambiguity that many prochoice advocates have over the Planned Parenthood videos (“Pro-choice, but with open eyes, heavy heart,” Opinion, Aug. 31).

The videos are grippingly repugnant, but they should not pre-empt our need for the benefits of fetal research based on abortions. Instead, there is the demand for curbing the callous and disgusting manner in which aborted fetuses are harvested and sold. All forms of human life, both actual and potential, deserve their appropriate form of respect.

Kilian Currey

Brewster, N.Y.

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I am 100% pro-choice. However, I do agree with those who believe that federal funding should be cut from Planned Parenthood.

In light of these recent videos, I don’t see how anyone can support this organization.

Sam Adams

Planned Parenthood is allowed by law to process fetal tissue at cost for research purposes. This is just another nonissue that the do-nothing-important Republicans want to use as a political football.

Gary Patton

Planned Parenthood has activism at its roots. Any program run like that should not be receiving federal funding. If you believe in what they are doing, you are free to financially support them.

Luke Sonner