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<div class="">I support Medicare for All, but in the meantime……</div>
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I don’t know the author but I thought this a good article in the NG. I would like to point out that a Representative’s personal views should not take priority over that of his Constituents, that is why he is known as a Representative. Thus it’s important for
those of us who support PP make our views known to him.
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Why Davis should back PP funding</h1>
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My U.S. representative, Rodney Davis, R-Taylorville, wants to cut funding to Planned Parenthood because of his pro-life views. I respect those views, so I informed Mr. Davis that Planned Parenthood prevents about 1 million unplanned pregnancies a year, 400,000
of which would otherwise end in abortion.</p>
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Mr. Davis justified his lack of support for Planned Parenthood by pointing to his support for community health centers. However, I reminded Mr. Davis that Planned Parenthood serves about a third of the Title X low-income population, using the $70 million a
year it receives in Title X grants to subsidize contraceptives and cancer and sexually transmitted infection screenings for people who can't afford them.</p>
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Planned Parenthood saw 2.7 million patients in 2014 and provided nearly 500,000 breast exams and nearly 400,000 Pap tests. Title X does not allow any money to be used to pay for abortions for any reason.</p>
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Please join me in telling Rep. Rodney Davis that defunding Planned Parenthood will not stop abortions and would actually increase the number of criminal abortions. Prior to Roe v. Wade, an estimated 1.2 million women each year resorted to illegal abortion,
despite the known risks of unsanitary conditions, incompetent treatment, infection, hemorrhage, disfiguration and death.</p>
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By striking down laws that forced women to resort to back-alley abortion, Roe saved many women's lives. According to one estimate made before 1973, more than 5,000 women may have died each year as a direct result of criminal abortions.
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SUE KLEFSTAD</p>
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