The goal of defunding planned parenthood

PLANNED PARENTHOOD

The recent allegations against planned parenthood is an assault from anti-abortionists to rid these health clinics of all funding at any cost.

The highly edited videos have been used against this organization, and recently, the (majority) conservative politicians have used this as an excuse to defund the organization as a method of ridding it of a facility to carry out abortions.

FACT:
Planned Parenthood does not sell fetal tissue (or aborted baby parts) for profit.
They do, however, donate the tissue at the request of the patient for scientific research. They are only reimbursed for the cost of the procedure.

"Planned Parenthood Sells Baby Parts" is a lie, and has been a lie that's been appealing to anti-abortionists as a way of attacking a clinic that performs these procedures.

FACT:
Planned Parenthood does not use tax-payer money for its abortion services.  It is against the law per the Hyde Amendment. The only exception to this rule is if a woman has been raped, or in the case of incest, the government may then fund an abortion.

Congress defunding Planned Parenthood would result in, disproportionately, loss of basic health care services to women under the poverty line. Around 54% of Planned Parenthood clinics are in medically underserved areas.

To pretend that Planned Parenthood is under attack because it did something illegal is just not true. The real reason Planned Parenthood is under attack is because there are a group of people who don't like abortion. Since abortion is legal, the only way to stop women from having these safe and legal abortions are to take away the entire facility.

This means that despite the other 97% of services planned parenthood provides (STI tests, cancer screenings, contraception access, and sex education), people in congress are willing to defund these services because that would stop the 3% of abortions that take place. The end goal of (a mostly conservative agenda) is to stop abortion by taking the facility away despite the costs to women's overall health.