As the US desperately seek ways to trim their $1.5 trillion budget deficit before the close of 2011, certain organizations are coming under increased scrutiny with regards their exact need and purpose. Planned Parenthood is one such entity, and has subsisted in the US for decades, despite being at the center of consistent controversy during that time. Now, as an organization that courts direct opposition and receives an estimated $363 million annually from the government, it has emerged as a potential target for expenditure cuts.
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Planned Parenthood has divided opinion in the US for years, and has both staunch supporters and opposition from different individuals and social groups. Those who agree with its presence and purpose feel that it offers and invaluable outlet to pregnant females and families, offering advice and family planning in the strictest of confidence. Conversely, its opposition have claimed that the organization is divisive and carries questionable morality and values, and in essence encourages a casual attitude towards sexual liaison.
The organizations cause has not been helped by recent incidents, which have caused the dismissal of two members of staff and excessive media coverage. In stings conducted by Live Action, one staff member was filmed accepting donations from a racially bigoted donor, while another was captured offering to facilitate birth control and abortions for under-age girls. These incidents were distasteful in the extreme, and have caused an even greater backlash from economists and religious groups nationwide.
Of course, regardless of these recent incidents, the main point of contention remains the organizations role in sexual attitude and promiscuity. Critics of Planned Parenthood maintain that since its inception in the early 1970’s, it has essentially provided abortions on demand, and helped to cultivate an ethos where this course of action is considered as a primary method of birth control. Given this and the notion that the group offers a light and impersonal approach to family planning and sexual health, it could be considered to be a contributor to the current laid back attitudes towards sexual activity.
Assuming Responsibility for Family Planning
When assessing the place of Planned Parenthood in contemporary society, it is important to consider the truth about abortion in the US. While it is true that the organization performed approximately one quarter of all the abortions that were conducted nationwide 2009, it is pertinent to remember that the current level of abortion and teenage pregnancy are far lower than they were throughout the course of the early 1990’s. So while the group are prominent in family planning and pregnancy, it could be argued that they have also been significant in helping to reducing the level of abortions in the US over a period of time.
This fact aside, it is debatable whether a single organization should shoulder such a large portion of blame for the attitudes of an entire generation. After all, we live in an age where our access to knowledge, information and professional advice is as uninhibited as it has ever been, and there is very little excuse for individuals and young adolescents not to be aware of the principles of safe and sensible sexual practice. With liberty and freedom comes a great deal of personal responsibility, which should be carried by elders and parents before being placed upon the shoulders of their children.
This is perhaps the key point in the entire argument, as it is parent and to a lesser extent educational bodies who must cultivate a suitable ethos to sexual practice. The leadership and example of a parent must work alongside a relevant schooling to provide the very best education in safe sexual practice, and this will prove the only genuinely effective method in reducing teenage or unplanned pregnancies. This has little to do with Planned Parenting, who have been developed primarily as an organization to help individuals deal with the consequence of their sexual activities.
Reduced Funding not the Key
Planned Parenting may well face sizeable government cutbacks, but this should in no way be seen as a reflection of the work that they do within society. While their recent history has been blighted by unfortunate incidents and staff who fail to adhere to the organizations own principles of operation, this is not reflective of their own practice and values, and should not be used as something to degenerate the service that they offer to citizens. Of course, there will remain debate about their purpose and role in sexual freedom, but their individual part is small when you consider the wider picture.
As long as groups and individuals continue to point the finger at reactive organizations that only seek to help people conduct family planning or request an abortion, then society will continue to fail to reduce the rates of unplanned and teenage pregnancy within its boundaries. The first and most significant step must be to address sexual education and the example set by parents to their offspring, which would serve a pre-emptive motion that encourages safe sexual conduct and makes the concept of abortion entirely unnecessary.
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