Once again federal funding for Planned Parenthood is in the country’s focus.

Federal funding means that you and I are paying for to this organization. Why would we do that? The argument is that Planned Parenthood provides vital services for women’s health.

The counter is that there are thousands of facilities that provide vital services for women’s health, the 700 Planned Parenthood centers are a small portion. Planned Parenthood provides abortions. By funding the organization, you and I are funding abortions. The counter argument to that is that the money Planned Parenthood receives from the federal government is not for abortions but for other services. Then there’s a squabble: if the money is mixed, the people’s money allows abortions to occur, etc.

Of course, funding for private schools runs into the same arguments. Money can go for mathematics books at a Catholic school, not for a theology book. But it’s the same principle.

And the two sides argue back and forth and no progress is made.

There is a simple solution to this issue, however.

Those who state that without Planned Parenthood women will be without facilities for women’s health need to be educated. Since ObamaCare has passed, women’s health services are guaranteed. Any woman can go to any local facility for her health services. The insurance policy pays for the services. Women cannot be denied.

If Planned Parenthood were to go out of business all on its own, this is what women would do, correct?

Planned Parenthood isn’t going out of business. It is a VERY profitable company. It doesn’t profit much on women’s health services though. Rather, its profits come from abortions. That’s what Planned Parenthood does for its money. No money needs to flow to this organization to prop it up; it needs no propping.

Planned Parenthood will do one of two things. It will either cut those less than profitable services and become an abortion clinic (as it is now) or it will take some of its profits and invest in other women’s health services to make it profitable for its company.

Under no circumstances should taxpayers fund a private business like this.

Women do not lose. Women’s healthcare is guaranteed under ObamaCare.

This is very much like school lunches. Poor families receive food stamps to feed itself. Why would taxpayers pay a second time to feed the child at school? We’ve already paid for food for the children.

As for women’s health services, taxpayers are picking up the tab under ObamaCare. Why would we pay a second time by directly funding Planned Parenthood?

So, before I clicked “publish” I got to thinking . . .
If the American taxpayer is willing to pay for a mammogram (bad example since Planned Parenthood doesn’t involve itself with them) or a PAP Smear, why should we balk at reimbursing Planned Parenthood for that service?

Because it isn’t direct funding that Planned Parenthood receives; it receives reimbursement for services rendered.

Generally, I am okay with that.

But if Planned Parenthood is going to claim it’s a nonprofit, where does it get off paying Ms. Richards more than $500 million annually? Where does it get off funneling money to Democrats?

And where does it get off selling baby parts?

And that is what this is really is about. If the organization performs 325,000 abortions a year because it feels a fetus is not a human (if it did, those would be murder), how can it profit from selling living baby parts?

Planned Parenthood rejects that it does. So, this seems like it is a straightforward issue. Either it does or doesn’t. Investigate the issue. Resolve it and then move on. If Planned Parenthood did sell live baby parts, prosecute those responsible and hold the company responsible. Also, the IRS should be investigating the nonprofit status it claims it has.