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John Oliver/Last Week Tonight 2/21/2016: Abortion. Please watch. (Original Post) CurtEastPoint Feb 2016 OP
PP prevents 345,000 abortions per year bjobotts Feb 2016 #1
Oh, this is sure a MUST SEE! Iwillnevergiveup Feb 2016 #2
Kicked for VISIBILITY! MrMickeysMom Feb 2016 #3
 

bjobotts

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1. PP prevents 345,000 abortions per year
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 10:13 PM
Feb 2016

...from Nicholas Kristoff’s article in NYT “…This in a country where half of all pregnancies are unintended, where 30 percent of American teenage girls become pregnant by age 19.

The Guttmacher Institute, which studies reproductive health, calculates that Title X family planning centers (PP) prevent about one million unintended pregnancies a year, of which 345,000 would have ended in abortion. It says that every year Title X clinics (PP) avert some 53,000 cases of chlamydia and 8,800 cases of gonorrhea, and save the lives of 1,100 women who would otherwise die of cervical cancer.

In other words, Title X prevents an abortion about once every 90 seconds...."
This should be shoved in the faces of all those ignorant or misinformed senators who voted to defund Planned Parenthood as they have no idea how much good this organization does. Keep in mind none of these legislators would have any trouble what so ever getting an abortion done...it's only the poor and middle class you are affected by these draconian laws

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