Hello Paul,
I'm just a college student living on the West Coast and I doubt you will ever see this...but if you do, please continue reading. Many have already heard that you and the rest of the GOP are trying to defund Planned Parenthood along with the Affordable Care Act. I'm going to guess this whole witch hunt against PP is because you're against abortions. I understand that you may be against abortion due to your religious beliefs. So are many other people in the US. What I don't get is that of all people, you, a politician and lawmaker, don't understand, or want to know that abortions from Planned Parenthood are not funded by federal money?
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Do you just hate women? From my perspective, it seems like you have a vendetta against us. Cutting off funding from PP means women who need screenings for breast cancer, cervical cancer, etc., won't be able to. How can you be pro-life when you ultimately cut our lives short when we can't access affordable health care? If you don't like abortions, great, don't get one. You don't have a vagina anyways so I'm not sure why destroying women's healthcare is such a big issue for you. Abortions are only one of many things Planned Parenthood offers. Are you against birth control, STD testing, counseling services, contraceptives, and cancer screenings? Mental illness is a big problem in the United States but with PP, women are able to still access affordable counseling from PP. I go to the clinics for cancer screenings and other health-related issues because it's hard to find a doctor that takes my insurance, or is accepting new clients.
This past week hundreds of women standing with Planned Parenthood arrived at your office to deliver boxes containing 87,000 petitions asking you to stop the process to defund the organization. But instead of hearing from the people YOU REPRESENT, you put security guards in front of your office and tried to send them away. Are you really that scared of women who care about their health? You work for us - so why can't you listen to us? When you defund Planned Parenthood and get rid of the ACA, what are your plans for the people who rely on it? To just let them get sick and die? You don't have a plan but you probably don't care. It's easy to not care when you're so privileged and can look away.
So Paul, do you really, really just hate women - and people in general, or are you not looking at the bigger picture? Ask yourself, "Do I have a vagina?" and if your answer is no, shut the fuck up stop playing around with other people's health.
