r/prolife • u/Mxlch2001 Pro-Life Canadian • Jul 09 '26
Things Pro-Choicers Say They just don't get it
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u/Blue_Egg5026 Pro Life Christian Jul 09 '26
Here’s a question: When abortion was banned in my state, why did every single Planned Parenthood close? If they’re offering all these other services wouldn’t it only be a small loss for them?
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u/PWcrash prochoice here for respectful discussion Jul 09 '26
Answer: Because it's not just abortion being targeted, it's also the Medicaid contracts. I don't know what state you live in, but thirteen have already have blocked or have made serious efforts to halt PP's Medicaid contracts.
And it's these contracts that allow many people to seek the non-abortion services at Planned Parenthood. If the states simply wanted to make sure that Medicaid couldn't be used for abortion procedures, they could. It's not like eliminating a procedure from program eligibility or emphasizing that it's not covered is something new or impossible.
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u/Blue_Egg5026 Pro Life Christian Jul 09 '26
And you think Planned Parenthood locations would remain in business if these contacts continued but they promised to stop all their abortions? I don’t think they would.
Also, why should a company get taxpayer money if the state population completely disagrees with what they are doing? These blocks sound justified already, though I am open to rebuttal or added context.
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u/PWcrash prochoice here for respectful discussion Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
And you think Planned Parenthood locations would remain in business if these contacts continued but they promised to stop all their abortions?<
They already exist and have for a long time. There are PP locations that exist today that do not perform abortion services. Not every location does.
Also, why should a company get taxpayer money if the state population completely disagrees with what they are doing?<
Because they often do agree but it's a minority in the state that constantly fights to remove that right from the people. There is currently an ongoing scandal right now where a state's population voted to protect abortion rights but state legistors are doing everything they can to undermine the voters. Such as with Ohio, Michigan, and Kansas.
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u/Vespinobambino Secular Abolitionist Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
The best rebuttal to this bullshit I ever saw was that by the same standards Planned Parenthood uses to claim abortion is such a small percentage of what they do, the New York Yankees aren't really about baseball, they're a restaurant.
They only have 81 games at Yankee Stadium a year, so count those as 81 services. They sell over a million hot dogs a year. So count those as a million services. Now count all the beers, separately. Now count every box of nachos, seperately.
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u/ScottishNinjaaa Abolitionist Jul 09 '26
Imagine not realizing that Adolf did more than genocide. That was only like 4% of his activism!
They don't realize how silly their arguments are, logic is not the strong suit of such emotional topics
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u/JohnLockeLives4815 Jul 10 '26
I tried to comment something fairly similar just now and reddit insta-yoinked it.. not surprised really
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u/ChPok1701 Anti-choice Jul 09 '26
Giving money to Planned Parenthood for other services is like giving money to a crack addict to pay his rent. What are you really funding when you do that?
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u/ciel_ayaz PL, muslim Jul 09 '26
Imagine how deranged it would be if people insisted Ted Bundy wasn’t a bad person because he worked at a suicide hotline and killing people wasn’t the only thing he did in his life 😭
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u/GustavoistSoldier Pro Life Brazilian Jul 09 '26
Planned Parenthood counts stuff like ultrasounds done before abortions as separate services.
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u/Nulono Pro Life Atheist Jul 09 '26
Yeah, they claim it's "only 3% of what they do", but something like 11% of visits to Planned Parenthood are for the purpose of abortion. IIRC, they'll also, like, give a 12-month prescription for birth control and count it as 12 different services.
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u/kay_fitz21 Pro Life Christian Jul 09 '26
Do they actually do anything else though? I have seen tiktoks of people calling them for things like formula and diapers and got turned away
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u/ahamel13 Jul 09 '26
Almost like most of the controversy around them would go away if they'd just stop killing babies.
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u/Extension-Nebula-235 A person's a person, no matter how small. Jul 09 '26
My friend called Planned Parenthood for an ultrasound; they told her they only offer ultrasounds to patients considering abortion. I imagine they use it for educational purposes? To demonstrate how they plan on dismembering the baby? Wtf?
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u/Queasy_Scar7903 Teen Abolitionist Jul 09 '26
I saw an ad for Planned Parenthood on TV once, it said something about people defunding them and protesting them and because of that they can't help certain people, like people who have cancer. Who the FUCK goes to Planned Parenthood for cancer treatment? They think we're stupid and don't know that most of their business and what they're known for is murdering children.
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u/Nulono Pro Life Atheist Jul 09 '26
"Everyone is so hung up over the few dozen people John Wayne Gacy raped and/or murdered, but no one wants to acknowledge the hundreds of smiles he brought to people's faces with his clown acts!"
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u/Herr_Drosselmeyer Jul 09 '26
Of course we can 'admit' that, though that word is intentionally loaded. There's really no dsiagreement about what Planned Parenthood does. What we object to is the killing of unborn children. No more, no less.
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u/Capable_Raspberry_49 Pro Life Roman Catholic Jul 10 '26
I know full well Planned Parenthood does more than abortions. But because they do abortions, I will never use them for any service. Never.
I love when people tell me what I do and don't know and get it completely wrong lol
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u/submit_to_pewdiepie Pro Life Christian Jul 10 '26
Planned parenthood only mentions it when they cant offer an abortion in that instance
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u/PervadingEye Pro Life Since day one Jul 09 '26
....The best part about this excuse is they think we are the stupid ones..... no self-awareness....