Saturday, May 14, 2011

Planned Parenthood

Indiana Health Insurance Emblem

On April 27, 2011
Indiana HB 1210
Repealing Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood
Concurrence Vote Passed:
House (66 - 32) Yea

Sheila Klinker (D) -- voted Yea, in favor of repealing funds
There may be a thousand explanations, but I can never forgive Sheila Klinker for joining the Republicans to prevent Indiana from receiving health care funding for our citizens. Shameful!

Attention: Mitch Daniels (Governor) & Sheila Klinker (State Representative)

The entire time that I was a student, from undergraduate days through grad school, in Missouri, Arkansas, and Indiana, Planned Parenthood was my primary health care provider. I was not often sick, but I did need to see a doctor at least once a year for an Annual Exam, and it was rare in those days for a campus health center to offer any kind of gynecological service, even a Pap smear.

Luckily for me, Planned Parenthood was always nearby, in an accessible location and an accessible building. I kept my appointments there without any harassment or stigma or erroneous assumption that abortion was the only service a woman might seek at Planned Parenthood. As I recall, it was considered a logical, sensible, affordable, responsible option for meeting routine needs. It pains me to realize that this is not still the case.
It should be.

I am grateful for those years of available, reliable, dignified health care from Planned Parenthood, so readily provided that I took it for granted without ever giving it a second thought. Now I find it distressing and inequitable for Planned Parenthood of Indiana to be under attack. I want to live in a country and a state where any student seeking health care can visit Planned Parenthood unimpeded by political squabbling and hectoring.

and I vote!


Post Scripts

March 2012: Very annoying to hear Rush Limbaugh complain that pharmacy benefits are an extravagance. In fact, women need hormone coverage for many reasons. Maybe his wives have been lucky -- no acne, dysmenorrhea, endometriosis, menopause, migraines, or ovarian cysts. Not that Rush needs to know why I might be taking estrogen, that's between me and my doctor. And don't forget, he has no children -- would he feel differently if he had a daughter?

April 3, 2017: Please remember: "Planned Parenthood does more to PREVENT abortions than any other organization. A vote against Planned Parenthood is a vote to increase the overall number of Abortions. When you attack Planned Parenthood, you embrace abortions, and become complicit in their growth." ~ Jon Thorpe

5 comments:

  1. March 2012: Very annoying to hear Rush Limbaugh complain that pharmacy benefits are an extravagance. In fact, women need hormone coverage for many reasons. Maybe his wives have been lucky -- no acne, dysmenorrhea, endometriosis, menopause, migraines, or ovarian cysts. Not that Rush needs to know why I might be taking estrogen, that's between me and my doctor. And don't forget, he has no children -- would he feel differently if he had a daughter?

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  2. April 27, 2011
    HB 1210 Repealing Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood Concurrence Vote Passed - House (66 - 32) Yea
    Sheila Klinker (D) -- voted Yea, in favor of repealing funds



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  3. Facebook Note: https://www.facebook.com/notes/kitti-carriker/planned-parenthood/10150180950594528

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  4. Please remember: "Planned Parenthood does more to PREVENT abortions than any other organization. A vote against Planned Parenthood is a vote to increase the overall number of Abortions. When you attack Planned Parenthood, you embrace abortions, and become complicit in their growth." ~ Jon Thorpe

    https://www.facebook.com/buffyr/posts/10154569241317297

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  5. I know if was several years ago, and I know there may be a thousand explanations, but for this, I can never forgive Sheila Klinker:


    HB 1210 Repealing Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood Concurrence Vote Passed - House (66 - 32) Yea
    Sheila Klinker (D) -- voted Yea, in favor of repealing funds

    https://votesmart.org/bill/votes/34789#.WCaXTvkrLIU

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