Stat check: No, women couldn’t just “go somewhere else” if Planned Parenthood closed

[David_42]

Rational people would want poor women to have access to free birth control pills, so they have both fewer babies and fewer abortions. But Republicans have this bizarre viewpoint that makes them care more about punishing poor people for being slutty or something.

The "defund Planned Parenthood" movement has a standard response to the question of where women would go if their local clinic closed: somewhere else.

RelatedThe Planned Parenthood controversy over aborted fetus body parts, explained
"There are 13,000 community-based organizations that provide health services to women, 13,000 in this country," Jeb Bush said at last week's Republican primary debate. "I don’t believe that Planned Parenthood should get a penny from the federal government."

Other Republicans make a similar claim. A spokesperson for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued that Planned Parenthood's funding could be diverted to "community health centers and other entities providing health services without abortions." And on paper, it sounds plausible that 13,000 clinics might be able to absorb Planned Parenthood's 2.7 million patients who get government help paying for birth control and other reproductive health services.

But a Vox review of academic research, recent Planned Parenthood closures in Texas, and interviews with half a dozen health policy experts suggests the opposite. Historically, researchers have found that when Planned Parenthood clinics close, other clinics do not step up to fill the gap. Meanwhile, when there are fewer reproductive health clinics available, women get less reproductive health care — from birth control to cancer screenings to STD testing and treatment. Unintended pregnancies would likely increase, too.

WHEN PLANNED PARENTHOOD CLINICS CLOSE, OTHER PROVIDERS DON'T STEP UP

So while many politicians like to assert that women can "go somewhere else," the consensus in the literature shows a different picture. Higher-income women will find alternatives. But a sizable minority of Planned Parenthood's patients, particularly low-income women, would lose access to medical services.

Planned Parenthood is a major part of America's reproductive health network

A patient has a Pap smear test at a Texas Planned Parenthood. (Melina Mara/the Washington Post via Getty Images)

Planned Parenthood plays a big role in women's reproductive health care in America for two reasons: It has hundreds of clinics, and those clinics tend to serve a higher number of patients than other health-care providers.

About one in six American counties — 491 counties in total — have a Planned Parenthood clinic. Taken together, they see about 2.6 million patients annually.

Planned Parenthood exists in many places where other family planning clinics don't: a new analysis from the Guttmacher Institute estimates that there are 103 counties in the United States where Planned Parenthood is the only provider of publicly funded contraceptives. In an additional 229 counties, Planned Parenthood serves the majority of women who are low-income and qualify for government help paying for birth control.

 

[DarkFury]

Obozocare was suppose to take away the need for PP. Now we have tax money dumped into both.

 

[Tank]

This is good practice for when muslims are in control

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

"Stat check: No, women couldn’t just “go somewhere else” if Planned Parenthood closed"

That's not even the issue.

The issue is the idiocy of the reprehensible right, and their desire to 'defund' an organization predicated solely on lies.

 

[Bassman007]

Rational people would want poor women to have access to free birth control pills, so they have both fewer babies and fewer abortions. But Republicans have this bizarre viewpoint that makes them care more about punishing poor people for being slutty or something.

The "defund Planned Parenthood" movement has a standard response to the question of where women would go if their local clinic closed: somewhere else.

RelatedThe Planned Parenthood controversy over aborted fetus body parts, explained
"There are 13,000 community-based organizations that provide health services to women, 13,000 in this country," Jeb Bush said at last week's Republican primary debate. "I don’t believe that Planned Parenthood should get a penny from the federal government."

Other Republicans make a similar claim. A spokesperson for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued that Planned Parenthood's funding could be diverted to "community health centers and other entities providing health services without abortions." And on paper, it sounds plausible that 13,000 clinics might be able to absorb Planned Parenthood's 2.7 million patients who get government help paying for birth control and other reproductive health services.

But a Vox review of academic research, recent Planned Parenthood closures in Texas, and interviews with half a dozen health policy experts suggests the opposite. Historically, researchers have found that when Planned Parenthood clinics close, other clinics do not step up to fill the gap. Meanwhile, when there are fewer reproductive health clinics available, women get less reproductive health care — from birth control to cancer screenings to STD testing and treatment. Unintended pregnancies would likely increase, too.

WHEN PLANNED PARENTHOOD CLINICS CLOSE, OTHER PROVIDERS DON'T STEP UP

So while many politicians like to assert that women can "go somewhere else," the consensus in the literature shows a different picture. Higher-income women will find alternatives. But a sizable minority of Planned Parenthood's patients, particularly low-income women, would lose access to medical services.

Planned Parenthood is a major part of America's reproductive health network

A patient has a Pap smear test at a Texas Planned Parenthood. (Melina Mara/the Washington Post via Getty Images)

Planned Parenthood plays a big role in women's reproductive health care in America for two reasons: It has hundreds of clinics, and those clinics tend to serve a higher number of patients than other health-care providers.

About one in six American counties — 491 counties in total — have a Planned Parenthood clinic. Taken together, they see about 2.6 million patients annually.

Planned Parenthood exists in many places where other family planning clinics don't: a new analysis from the Guttmacher Institute estimates that there are 103 counties in the United States where Planned Parenthood is the only provider of publicly funded contraceptives. In an additional 229 counties, Planned Parenthood serves the majority of women who are low-income and qualify for government help paying for birth control.

So you are saying that women would just die without planned parenthood.

Life finds a way, and birth control pills are not free, Obama pays for them, because he does not want any more of the idiots that voted for him in the World......

Just reality.

Next.

 

[Maryland Patriot]

This is good practice for when muslims are in control

it will be easier to justify an abortion for muhammads goat

 

[Avorysuds]

Republicans what to use religion to end something Government is doing while Dems want to use Government to pay for something Government shouldn't be doing.

Both are un-constitutional.

This is what happens when you have a 2 party system filled with the dumbest people history has ever produced.

 

[Avorysuds]

~

 

[DarkFury]

Obozocare was suppose to take away the need for PP. Now we have tax money dumped into both.

"Stat check: No, women couldn’t just “go somewhere else” if Planned Parenthood closed"

That's not even the issue.

The issue is the idiocy of the reprehensible right, and their desire to 'defund' an organization predicated solely on lies.

Obozocare is SUPPOSED to be a one insurance fits all. That IS what was PROMISED. It was SUPPOSED to REPLACE all the smaller systems.

So I guess YOU lied eh?

 

[David_42]

Obozocare was suppose to take away the need for PP. Now we have tax money dumped into both.

"Stat check: No, women couldn’t just “go somewhere else” if Planned Parenthood closed"

That's not even the issue.

The issue is the idiocy of the reprehensible right, and their desire to 'defund' an organization predicated solely on lies.

Obozocare is SUPPOSED to be a one insurance fits all. That IS what was PROMISED. It was SUPPOSED to REPLACE all the smaller systems.

So I guess YOU lied eh?

"Obozocare is SUPPOSED to be a one insurance fits all. That IS what was PROMISED. It was SUPPOSED to REPLACE all the smaller systems. "

 

[Avorysuds]

I have a question. Why does it seem like Democrats believe every nationality, and all females need help from the "white man" to be successful or accomplish anything?

 

[Avorysuds]

David_42 is clearly sexist and racist in the true sense.

 

[Blackrook]

Basically, here is what white liberals want.

They want black and Hispanic women to have the most birth control and the most abortions, in order to keep down the number of "undesirable" people.

Margaret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood for that reason, not to "help" minorities, but to kill them off.

Corporate America and government, run mostly by white people, agree with that goal, so they fund Planned Parenthood.

They are not shocked or surprised by the videos showing Planned Parenthood selling baby parts.

They're just annoyed that they got caught.

 

[the_human_being]

Rational people would want poor women to have access to free birth control pills, so they have both fewer babies and fewer abortions. But Republicans have this bizarre viewpoint that makes them care more about punishing poor people for being slutty or something.

The "defund Planned Parenthood" movement has a standard response to the question of where women would go if their local clinic closed: somewhere else.

RelatedThe Planned Parenthood controversy over aborted fetus body parts, explained
"There are 13,000 community-based organizations that provide health services to women, 13,000 in this country," Jeb Bush said at last week's Republican primary debate. "I don’t believe that Planned Parenthood should get a penny from the federal government."

Other Republicans make a similar claim. A spokesperson for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued that Planned Parenthood's funding could be diverted to "community health centers and other entities providing health services without abortions." And on paper, it sounds plausible that 13,000 clinics might be able to absorb Planned Parenthood's 2.7 million patients who get government help paying for birth control and other reproductive health services.

But a Vox review of academic research, recent Planned Parenthood closures in Texas, and interviews with half a dozen health policy experts suggests the opposite. Historically, researchers have found that when Planned Parenthood clinics close, other clinics do not step up to fill the gap. Meanwhile, when there are fewer reproductive health clinics available, women get less reproductive health care — from birth control to cancer screenings to STD testing and treatment. Unintended pregnancies would likely increase, too.

WHEN PLANNED PARENTHOOD CLINICS CLOSE, OTHER PROVIDERS DON'T STEP UP

So while many politicians like to assert that women can "go somewhere else," the consensus in the literature shows a different picture. Higher-income women will find alternatives. But a sizable minority of Planned Parenthood's patients, particularly low-income women, would lose access to medical services.

Planned Parenthood is a major part of America's reproductive health network

A patient has a Pap smear test at a Texas Planned Parenthood. (Melina Mara/the Washington Post via Getty Images)

Planned Parenthood plays a big role in women's reproductive health care in America for two reasons: It has hundreds of clinics, and those clinics tend to serve a higher number of patients than other health-care providers.

About one in six American counties — 491 counties in total — have a Planned Parenthood clinic. Taken together, they see about 2.6 million patients annually.

Planned Parenthood exists in many places where other family planning clinics don't: a new analysis from the Guttmacher Institute estimates that there are 103 counties in the United States where Planned Parenthood is the only provider of publicly funded contraceptives. In an additional 229 counties, Planned Parenthood serves the majority of women who are low-income and qualify for government help paying for birth control.

We never had a problem getting them before. The contraceptives weren't free on my insurance but they were very affordable. We simply went to our doctor and he wrote a prescription for them and then went to the drug store and had the prescription filled. This was fifty years ago. What changed that made it so difficult for women to get them?

 

[Papageorgio]

It's free on Obama care and everyone in America has to have insurance and everyone can afford it. Wasn't that what we were told.

ObamaCare Birth Control - Obamacare Facts

So why the hell do we need planned parenthood.

 

[David_42]

It's free on Obama care and everyone in America has to have insurance and everyone can afford it. Wasn't that what we were told.

ObamaCare Birth Control - Obamacare Facts

LOL. (Same website )
Do We Still Need Planned Parenthood? - Obamacare Facts
"We need Planned Parenthood. ObamaCare’s expansion of coverage options provides free sexual and reproductive health services, but millions fall in the Medicaid gap in states that didn’t expand Medicaid, and millions more have yet to get coverage through theHealth Insurance Marketplace."

 

[Papageorgio]

It's free on Obama care and everyone in America has to have insurance and everyone can afford it. Wasn't that what we were told.

ObamaCare Birth Control - Obamacare Facts

LOL. (Same website )
Do We Still Need Planned Parenthood? - Obamacare Facts
"We need Planned Parenthood. ObamaCare’s expansion of coverage options provides free sexual and reproductive health services, but millions fall in the Medicaid gap in states that didn’t expand Medicaid, and millions more have yet to get coverage through theHealth Insurance Marketplace."

If all birth control is all free, and the law requires everyone to have Obummer Care, not seeing a reason for Planned Aborthood.

 

[David_42]

It's free on Obama care and everyone in America has to have insurance and everyone can afford it. Wasn't that what we were told.

ObamaCare Birth Control - Obamacare Facts

LOL. (Same website )
Do We Still Need Planned Parenthood? - Obamacare Facts
"We need Planned Parenthood. ObamaCare’s expansion of coverage options provides free sexual and reproductive health services, but millions fall in the Medicaid gap in states that didn’t expand Medicaid, and millions more have yet to get coverage through theHealth Insurance Marketplace."

If all birth control is all free, and the law requires everyone to have Obummer Care, not seeing a reason for Planned Aborthood.

"We need Planned Parenthood. ObamaCare’s expansion of coverage options provides free sexual and reproductive health services, but millions fall in the Medicaid gap in states that didn’t expand Medicaid, and millions more have yet to get coverage through theHealth Insurance Marketplace."

 

[Maryland Patriot]

It's free on Obama care and everyone in America has to have insurance and everyone can afford it. Wasn't that what we were told.

ObamaCare Birth Control - Obamacare Facts

LOL. (Same website )
Do We Still Need Planned Parenthood? - Obamacare Facts
"We need Planned Parenthood. ObamaCare’s expansion of coverage options provides free sexual and reproductive health services, but millions fall in the Medicaid gap in states that didn’t expand Medicaid, and millions more have yet to get coverage through theHealth Insurance Marketplace."

If all birth control is all free, and the law requires everyone to have Obummer Care, not seeing a reason for Planned Aborthood.

"We need Planned Parenthood. ObamaCare’s expansion of coverage options provides free sexual and reproductive health services, but millions fall in the Medicaid gap in states that didn’t expand Medicaid, and millions more have yet to get coverage through theHealth Insurance Marketplace."

the states that didnt expan coverage should pay directly to PP if they choose. no need to charge someone in a state that did comply to cover a state that did not.
and for those millions that have yet to get coverage? its available, if they dont feel enough of a need to get it, why should I feel enough of a need to pay for their alternative care?

 

[Papageorgio]

It's free on Obama care and everyone in America has to have insurance and everyone can afford it. Wasn't that what we were told.

ObamaCare Birth Control - Obamacare Facts

LOL. (Same website )
Do We Still Need Planned Parenthood? - Obamacare Facts
"We need Planned Parenthood. ObamaCare’s expansion of coverage options provides free sexual and reproductive health services, but millions fall in the Medicaid gap in states that didn’t expand Medicaid, and millions more have yet to get coverage through theHealth Insurance Marketplace."

If all birth control is all free, and the law requires everyone to have Obummer Care, not seeing a reason for Planned Aborthood.

"We need Planned Parenthood. ObamaCare’s expansion of coverage options provides free sexual and reproductive health services, but millions fall in the Medicaid gap in states that didn’t expand Medicaid, and millions more have yet to get coverage through theHealth Insurance Marketplace."

Why haven't they not gotten coverage, it's the law and everyone can now afford it.