Indiana Shut Down Its Rural Planned Parenthood Clinics And Got An HIV Outbreak

[Katzndogz]

Closing the clinic did not cause anyone to get HIV. That's silly.

 

[Faun]

Closing the clinic did not cause anyone to get HIV. That's silly.

You can't actually state that with any amount of certainty. Many people who know they have HIV make a conscious effort to avoid spreading it. Many others avoid risky behaviors with people known to be HIV positive. Therefore, testing for HIV is one method of combating the spread of the disease. And Planned Parenthood offered HIV testing. Eliminating that, in all probability, contributed to the outbreak.

 

[EastCoastLiberal]

Closing the clinic did not cause anyone to get HIV. That's silly.

And Planned Parenthood did not cause anyone to get unwillingly pregnant

 

[Where_r_my_Keys]

This thread is as typically absurd. But no less so than the idiots throwing a celebration that Pence 'has changed his mind', when Pence hasn't changed his mind in the slightest.

 

[Mr.Right]

Scott County, Indiana, the center of an exploding HIV outbreak, has been without an HIV testing center since early 2013, when the sole provider -- a Planned Parenthood clinic -- was forced to close its doors. The clinic did not offer abortion services.

The Scott County clinic and four other Planned Parenthood facilities in the state, all of which provided HIV testing and information, have shuttered since 2011, in large part due to funding cuts to the state's public health infrastructure. Those cuts came amid a national and local political campaign to demonize the health care provider. Now, the state is scrambling to erect pop-up clinics to combat an unprecedented HIV epidemic caused by intravenous drug use.

The fact that Scott County was "without a testing facility until a few weeks ago is a glaring example of the kind of public health crisis that results when prevention and testing are left unfunded," said Patti Stauffer, Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky's vice president for public policy.

Indiana's GOP-led state legislature was one of the first to declare war against Planned Parenthood in 2011, when it passed a bill that defunded the family planning providerbecause some of its clinics offer abortion services. A federal judge later blocked that law from going into effect, but the state has continued to slash various sources of funding to Planned Parenthood at a time when the cost of operating a medical facility continues to rise.

In 2005, Planned Parenthood of Indiana received a total of $3.3 million in funding from government contracts and grants. By 2014, that funding had dropped to $1.9 million. Five of Planned Parenthood’s smaller clinics in the state -- the health centers in Scottsburg, Madison, Richmond, Bedford and Warsaw -- were unable to keep up with the growing technology costs that were necessary to remain competitive as a medical provider. All five clinics that were forced to close had offered HIV testing. None had offered abortions.

Even without five of its clinics, Planned Parenthood's HIV testing in Indiana has been increasing each year. Overall, the provider's 25 remaining clinics in Kentucky and Indiana gave more than 8,000 HIV tests in 2014, about 1,000 more than the previous year. And the numbers would certainly be higher if the five shuttered clinics in Indiana had been able to continue to operate.

Stauffer said if the Planned Parenthood facilities in Scottsburg and Madison, both in southwest rural Indiana, had received the funding they needed to stay open, they could have been a vital resource in preventing the current HIV outbreak.

"We applaud the state’s public health officials in acting to address this epidemic, but we also encourage our legislators to adequately fund public health efforts to protect all Hoosiers from future health crises from HIV and other devastating outcomes," said Stauffer.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) has warned that the HIV outbreak amounts to an epidemic. Last week, he broke with previous policy to create a temporary needle-exchange program to stem the tide. His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


And there you have it....the unintended but easily forecastable problem with closing down Planned Parenthood because of the name instead of the services provided.

HIV is probably the most preventable disease we've ever had. It is almost exclusively spread by behavior that people KNOW is wrong. We wouldn't need testing centers if people would simply do the right thing.

You realize that most people globally with Hiv/Aids are heterosexual right? So being gay or not doesn't reduce your risk of getting it.

And it's all thanks to a pervert who thought monkey's were sexy. He was probably gay, because the disease first showed up in the gay community. If it wasn't for perverts we probably wouldn't have aids in the first place. Also, the majority of aids infected people are in third world countries like Africa. The numbers are a bit different here in the USA. There is no reason why someone in America should get aids unless they are careless. I repeat. It is the most preventable disease we've ever had. That's a fact.

 

[Mr.Right]

Scott County, Indiana, the center of an exploding HIV outbreak, has been without an HIV testing center since early 2013, when the sole provider -- a Planned Parenthood clinic -- was forced to close its doors. The clinic did not offer abortion services.

The Scott County clinic and four other Planned Parenthood facilities in the state, all of which provided HIV testing and information, have shuttered since 2011, in large part due to funding cuts to the state's public health infrastructure. Those cuts came amid a national and local political campaign to demonize the health care provider. Now, the state is scrambling to erect pop-up clinics to combat an unprecedented HIV epidemic caused by intravenous drug use.

The fact that Scott County was "without a testing facility until a few weeks ago is a glaring example of the kind of public health crisis that results when prevention and testing are left unfunded," said Patti Stauffer, Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky's vice president for public policy.

Indiana's GOP-led state legislature was one of the first to declare war against Planned Parenthood in 2011, when it passed a bill that defunded the family planning providerbecause some of its clinics offer abortion services. A federal judge later blocked that law from going into effect, but the state has continued to slash various sources of funding to Planned Parenthood at a time when the cost of operating a medical facility continues to rise.

In 2005, Planned Parenthood of Indiana received a total of $3.3 million in funding from government contracts and grants. By 2014, that funding had dropped to $1.9 million. Five of Planned Parenthood’s smaller clinics in the state -- the health centers in Scottsburg, Madison, Richmond, Bedford and Warsaw -- were unable to keep up with the growing technology costs that were necessary to remain competitive as a medical provider. All five clinics that were forced to close had offered HIV testing. None had offered abortions.

Even without five of its clinics, Planned Parenthood's HIV testing in Indiana has been increasing each year. Overall, the provider's 25 remaining clinics in Kentucky and Indiana gave more than 8,000 HIV tests in 2014, about 1,000 more than the previous year. And the numbers would certainly be higher if the five shuttered clinics in Indiana had been able to continue to operate.

Stauffer said if the Planned Parenthood facilities in Scottsburg and Madison, both in southwest rural Indiana, had received the funding they needed to stay open, they could have been a vital resource in preventing the current HIV outbreak.

"We applaud the state’s public health officials in acting to address this epidemic, but we also encourage our legislators to adequately fund public health efforts to protect all Hoosiers from future health crises from HIV and other devastating outcomes," said Stauffer.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) has warned that the HIV outbreak amounts to an epidemic. Last week, he broke with previous policy to create a temporary needle-exchange program to stem the tide. His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


And there you have it....the unintended but easily forecastable problem with closing down Planned Parenthood because of the name instead of the services provided.

HIV is probably the most preventable disease we've ever had. It is almost exclusively spread by behavior that people KNOW is wrong. We wouldn't need testing centers if people would simply do the right thing.

You realize that most people globally with Hiv/Aids are heterosexual right? So being gay or not doesn't reduce your risk of getting it.

Uh, you obviously have no comprehension of statistics.

Yes, gays are a LOT more likely to get it.

Worldwide (read..AFRICA), women get it a lot, because their HIV infected homo/drug addicted/sex market boyfriends and husbands bring it home to them. They infect their women, who in turn infect their unborn children.

But in THIS country, it is almost EXCLUSIVELY transmitted between homosexual men.

Too stupid as always.

Actually ... in this country ... almost 1/3 of new cases reported are among heterosexuals...

CDC HIV in the United States Statistics Overview Statistics Center HIV AIDS

Queers make up about 3.5 percent of the population, yet they account for two thirds of new cases. you're not helping your case at all.

 

[Faun]

This thread is as typically absurd. But no less so than the idiots throwing a celebration that Pence 'has changed his mind', when Pence hasn't changed his mind in the slightest.

Thanks for the free entertainment. It's always fun watching brain-dead conservatives writhe in their own denial.

Just last week, Pence said he planned on signing a bill which passed in his state's House. This week, after a firestorm of backlash hit him in the face, he declares he won't sign the bill he was prepared to sign prior to the backlash.

But, nooooo ... he hasn't changed his mind.



You're too funny, con.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Closing the clinic did not cause anyone to get HIV. That's silly.

That is silly...I kinda thought that false logic was clear tho.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Scott County, Indiana, the center of an exploding HIV outbreak, has been without an HIV testing center since early 2013, when the sole provider -- a Planned Parenthood clinic -- was forced to close its doors. The clinic did not offer abortion services.

The Scott County clinic and four other Planned Parenthood facilities in the state, all of which provided HIV testing and information, have shuttered since 2011, in large part due to funding cuts to the state's public health infrastructure. Those cuts came amid a national and local political campaign to demonize the health care provider. Now, the state is scrambling to erect pop-up clinics to combat an unprecedented HIV epidemic caused by intravenous drug use.

The fact that Scott County was "without a testing facility until a few weeks ago is a glaring example of the kind of public health crisis that results when prevention and testing are left unfunded," said Patti Stauffer, Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky's vice president for public policy.

Indiana's GOP-led state legislature was one of the first to declare war against Planned Parenthood in 2011, when it passed a bill that defunded the family planning providerbecause some of its clinics offer abortion services. A federal judge later blocked that law from going into effect, but the state has continued to slash various sources of funding to Planned Parenthood at a time when the cost of operating a medical facility continues to rise.

In 2005, Planned Parenthood of Indiana received a total of $3.3 million in funding from government contracts and grants. By 2014, that funding had dropped to $1.9 million. Five of Planned Parenthood’s smaller clinics in the state -- the health centers in Scottsburg, Madison, Richmond, Bedford and Warsaw -- were unable to keep up with the growing technology costs that were necessary to remain competitive as a medical provider. All five clinics that were forced to close had offered HIV testing. None had offered abortions.

Even without five of its clinics, Planned Parenthood's HIV testing in Indiana has been increasing each year. Overall, the provider's 25 remaining clinics in Kentucky and Indiana gave more than 8,000 HIV tests in 2014, about 1,000 more than the previous year. And the numbers would certainly be higher if the five shuttered clinics in Indiana had been able to continue to operate.

Stauffer said if the Planned Parenthood facilities in Scottsburg and Madison, both in southwest rural Indiana, had received the funding they needed to stay open, they could have been a vital resource in preventing the current HIV outbreak.

"We applaud the state’s public health officials in acting to address this epidemic, but we also encourage our legislators to adequately fund public health efforts to protect all Hoosiers from future health crises from HIV and other devastating outcomes," said Stauffer.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) has warned that the HIV outbreak amounts to an epidemic. Last week, he broke with previous policy to create a temporary needle-exchange program to stem the tide. His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


And there you have it....the unintended but easily forecastable problem with closing down Planned Parenthood because of the name instead of the services provided.

Birth control does not stop STD's

 

[thereisnospoon]

What does Planned Parenthood have to do with intravenous drug use? Stupid thread.

Because they got HIV from the drugs...Planned Parenthood tests for HIV. Too complicated for you?

to Find HIV use test. Test at Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood gone tho.

Yes needle sharing is such an intelligent thing to do....

 

[Faun]

Scott County, Indiana, the center of an exploding HIV outbreak, has been without an HIV testing center since early 2013, when the sole provider -- a Planned Parenthood clinic -- was forced to close its doors. The clinic did not offer abortion services.

The Scott County clinic and four other Planned Parenthood facilities in the state, all of which provided HIV testing and information, have shuttered since 2011, in large part due to funding cuts to the state's public health infrastructure. Those cuts came amid a national and local political campaign to demonize the health care provider. Now, the state is scrambling to erect pop-up clinics to combat an unprecedented HIV epidemic caused by intravenous drug use.

The fact that Scott County was "without a testing facility until a few weeks ago is a glaring example of the kind of public health crisis that results when prevention and testing are left unfunded," said Patti Stauffer, Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky's vice president for public policy.

Indiana's GOP-led state legislature was one of the first to declare war against Planned Parenthood in 2011, when it passed a bill that defunded the family planning providerbecause some of its clinics offer abortion services. A federal judge later blocked that law from going into effect, but the state has continued to slash various sources of funding to Planned Parenthood at a time when the cost of operating a medical facility continues to rise.

In 2005, Planned Parenthood of Indiana received a total of $3.3 million in funding from government contracts and grants. By 2014, that funding had dropped to $1.9 million. Five of Planned Parenthood’s smaller clinics in the state -- the health centers in Scottsburg, Madison, Richmond, Bedford and Warsaw -- were unable to keep up with the growing technology costs that were necessary to remain competitive as a medical provider. All five clinics that were forced to close had offered HIV testing. None had offered abortions.

Even without five of its clinics, Planned Parenthood's HIV testing in Indiana has been increasing each year. Overall, the provider's 25 remaining clinics in Kentucky and Indiana gave more than 8,000 HIV tests in 2014, about 1,000 more than the previous year. And the numbers would certainly be higher if the five shuttered clinics in Indiana had been able to continue to operate.

Stauffer said if the Planned Parenthood facilities in Scottsburg and Madison, both in southwest rural Indiana, had received the funding they needed to stay open, they could have been a vital resource in preventing the current HIV outbreak.

"We applaud the state’s public health officials in acting to address this epidemic, but we also encourage our legislators to adequately fund public health efforts to protect all Hoosiers from future health crises from HIV and other devastating outcomes," said Stauffer.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) has warned that the HIV outbreak amounts to an epidemic. Last week, he broke with previous policy to create a temporary needle-exchange program to stem the tide. His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


And there you have it....the unintended but easily forecastable problem with closing down Planned Parenthood because of the name instead of the services provided.

HIV is probably the most preventable disease we've ever had. It is almost exclusively spread by behavior that people KNOW is wrong. We wouldn't need testing centers if people would simply do the right thing.

You realize that most people globally with Hiv/Aids are heterosexual right? So being gay or not doesn't reduce your risk of getting it.

Uh, you obviously have no comprehension of statistics.

Yes, gays are a LOT more likely to get it.

Worldwide (read..AFRICA), women get it a lot, because their HIV infected homo/drug addicted/sex market boyfriends and husbands bring it home to them. They infect their women, who in turn infect their unborn children.

But in THIS country, it is almost EXCLUSIVELY transmitted between homosexual men.

Too stupid as always.

Actually ... in this country ... almost 1/3 of new cases reported are among heterosexuals...

CDC HIV in the United States Statistics Overview Statistics Center HIV AIDS

Queers make up about 3.5 percent of the population, yet they account for two thirds of new cases. you're not helping your case at all.

My case is 2/3rds is not "almost exclusively."

Without redefining the English language, 2/3rds is nowhere near "almost exclusively."

KG is an imbecile which is why she says nonsense like that. Derek Jeter's lifetime batting average in MLB is almost 1/3rd. According to her senility, Derek Jeter's at bats resulted in him being "almost exclusively" out.

 

[koshergrl]

HIV is probably the most preventable disease we've ever had. It is almost exclusively spread by behavior that people KNOW is wrong. We wouldn't need testing centers if people would simply do the right thing.

You realize that most people globally with Hiv/Aids are heterosexual right? So being gay or not doesn't reduce your risk of getting it.

Uh, you obviously have no comprehension of statistics.

Yes, gays are a LOT more likely to get it.

Worldwide (read..AFRICA), women get it a lot, because their HIV infected homo/drug addicted/sex market boyfriends and husbands bring it home to them. They infect their women, who in turn infect their unborn children.

But in THIS country, it is almost EXCLUSIVELY transmitted between homosexual men.

Too stupid as always.

Actually ... in this country ... almost 1/3 of new cases reported are among heterosexuals...

CDC HIV in the United States Statistics Overview Statistics Center HIV AIDS

Queers make up about 3.5 percent of the population, yet they account for two thirds of new cases. you're not helping your case at all.

My case is 2/3rds is not "almost exclusively."

Without redefining the English language, 2/3rds is nowhere near "almost exclusively."

KG is an imbecile which is why she says nonsense like that. Derek Jeter's lifetime batting average in MLB is almost 1/3rd. According to her senility, Derek Jeter's at bats resulted in him being "almost exclusively" out.

Actually, you've proven repeatedly in this thread that you're an imbecile. Like you are the arbiter of the meaning of "almost" lololol...what a dork.

al·most
ˈôlˌmōst/
adverb
adverb: almost
not quite; very nearly.
Do you see a percentage named?

me either. Loon.

 

[Faun]

You realize that most people globally with Hiv/Aids are heterosexual right? So being gay or not doesn't reduce your risk of getting it.

Uh, you obviously have no comprehension of statistics.

Yes, gays are a LOT more likely to get it.

Worldwide (read..AFRICA), women get it a lot, because their HIV infected homo/drug addicted/sex market boyfriends and husbands bring it home to them. They infect their women, who in turn infect their unborn children.

But in THIS country, it is almost EXCLUSIVELY transmitted between homosexual men.

Too stupid as always.

Actually ... in this country ... almost 1/3 of new cases reported are among heterosexuals...

CDC HIV in the United States Statistics Overview Statistics Center HIV AIDS

Queers make up about 3.5 percent of the population, yet they account for two thirds of new cases. you're not helping your case at all.

My case is 2/3rds is not "almost exclusively."

Without redefining the English language, 2/3rds is nowhere near "almost exclusively."

KG is an imbecile which is why she says nonsense like that. Derek Jeter's lifetime batting average in MLB is almost 1/3rd. According to her senility, Derek Jeter's at bats resulted in him being "almost exclusively" out.

Actually, you've proven repeatedly in this thread that you're an imbecile. Like you are the arbiter of the meaning of "almost" lololol...what a dork.

al·most
ˈôlˌmōst/
adverb
adverb: almost
not quite; very nearly.
Do you see a percentage named?

me either. Loon.

WTF needs a percentage to know that 67% is NOT "very nearly" 100%??

You really are that dumb.

Do you also need a calculator to know 1+1=2?

 

[koshergrl]

Uh, you obviously have no comprehension of statistics.

Yes, gays are a LOT more likely to get it.

Worldwide (read..AFRICA), women get it a lot, because their HIV infected homo/drug addicted/sex market boyfriends and husbands bring it home to them. They infect their women, who in turn infect their unborn children.

But in THIS country, it is almost EXCLUSIVELY transmitted between homosexual men.

Too stupid as always.

Actually ... in this country ... almost 1/3 of new cases reported are among heterosexuals...

CDC HIV in the United States Statistics Overview Statistics Center HIV AIDS

Queers make up about 3.5 percent of the population, yet they account for two thirds of new cases. you're not helping your case at all.

My case is 2/3rds is not "almost exclusively."

Without redefining the English language, 2/3rds is nowhere near "almost exclusively."

KG is an imbecile which is why she says nonsense like that. Derek Jeter's lifetime batting average in MLB is almost 1/3rd. According to her senility, Derek Jeter's at bats resulted in him being "almost exclusively" out.

Actually, you've proven repeatedly in this thread that you're an imbecile. Like you are the arbiter of the meaning of "almost" lololol...what a dork.

al·most
ˈôlˌmōst/
adverb
adverb: almost
not quite; very nearly.
Do you see a percentage named?

me either. Loon.

WTF needs a percentage to know that 67% is NOT "very nearly" 100%??

You really are that dumb.

Do you also need a calculator to know 1+1=2?

^^^imbecile

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

Uh, you obviously have no comprehension of statistics.

Yes, gays are a LOT more likely to get it.

Worldwide (read..AFRICA), women get it a lot, because their HIV infected homo/drug addicted/sex market boyfriends and husbands bring it home to them. They infect their women, who in turn infect their unborn children.

But in THIS country, it is almost EXCLUSIVELY transmitted between homosexual men.

Too stupid as always.

Actually ... in this country ... almost 1/3 of new cases reported are among heterosexuals...

CDC HIV in the United States Statistics Overview Statistics Center HIV AIDS

Queers make up about 3.5 percent of the population, yet they account for two thirds of new cases. you're not helping your case at all.

My case is 2/3rds is not "almost exclusively."

Without redefining the English language, 2/3rds is nowhere near "almost exclusively."

KG is an imbecile which is why she says nonsense like that. Derek Jeter's lifetime batting average in MLB is almost 1/3rd. According to her senility, Derek Jeter's at bats resulted in him being "almost exclusively" out.

Actually, you've proven repeatedly in this thread that you're an imbecile. Like you are the arbiter of the meaning of "almost" lololol...what a dork.

al·most
ˈôlˌmōst/
adverb
adverb: almost
not quite; very nearly.
Do you see a percentage named?

me either. Loon.

WTF needs a percentage to know that 67% is NOT "very nearly" 100%??

You really are that dumb.

Do you also need a calculator to know 1+1=2?

This is the beauty of the written word and how these idiots choke on their own.

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

Too stupid as always.

Actually ... in this country ... almost 1/3 of new cases reported are among heterosexuals...

CDC HIV in the United States Statistics Overview Statistics Center HIV AIDS

Queers make up about 3.5 percent of the population, yet they account for two thirds of new cases. you're not helping your case at all.

My case is 2/3rds is not "almost exclusively."

Without redefining the English language, 2/3rds is nowhere near "almost exclusively."

KG is an imbecile which is why she says nonsense like that. Derek Jeter's lifetime batting average in MLB is almost 1/3rd. According to her senility, Derek Jeter's at bats resulted in him being "almost exclusively" out.

Actually, you've proven repeatedly in this thread that you're an imbecile. Like you are the arbiter of the meaning of "almost" lololol...what a dork.

al·most
ˈôlˌmōst/
adverb
adverb: almost
not quite; very nearly.
Do you see a percentage named?

me either. Loon.

WTF needs a percentage to know that 67% is NOT "very nearly" 100%??

You really are that dumb.

Do you also need a calculator to know 1+1=2?

^^^imbecile

Wow, scathing, scorched-earth response. I'd quit while you're way behind.

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

I'm just really glad to see a Red state get it up their tight, homophobic, ultra-evangelical, myopic collective ass. They have generated fear and ignorance and it's come home to roost. Love it.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

I'm just really glad to see a Red state get it up their tight, homophobic, ultra-evangelical, myopic collective ass. They have generated fear and ignorance and it's come home to roost. Love it.

They are really good, at shooting others in the head while getting themselves in the foot.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Birth control does not stop STD's

Deer have antlers

 

[koshergrl]

Birth control does not stop STD's

Deer have antlers

Antlers won't prevent STDs either.

Though probably they have some voodoo cures out of Africa and Haiti that include ground up rhino horn.