According to the research, "an outpouring of public donations helps Planned Parenthood significantly expand our breast health training, outreach, and medical programs -- and helps several thousand more low-income patients get biopsies and other advanced diagnostic screening" (Planned Parenthood, 2013, p 7). Currently, public donations only accounted for about 26% of the organization's revenue. This would not be enough for the organization to sustain itself without government funding. Campaigns to increase awareness and reach out to community members would ultimately help increase this percentage so that the organization could still operate in the event that government funding is cut.
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Current and Future Direction
Promoting national sex education programs remains one of the organization's biggest current programs. Here, the research suggests that "Planned parenthood is an extensive grassroots direct service provider that impacts the national dialogue about teenage access to reproductive services" and sexual health education (Richards, 2007). Thus, it continues to fund and produce sexual education programs and services for patients of all walks of life.
Margaret Sanger's fighting spirit is still very much alive in the modern Planned Parenthood of today. The organization "believes that the freedom to manage one's own fertility is a fundamental right; a fundamental right that should not be abrogated by any criteria, including age" (Richards, 2007, p 57). Thus, it is willing to fight to keep providing these services to those in need. The organization is pro-choice, with abortions making up about 3% of the services provided by the organization (Planned Parenthood, 2013). Yet, it is this issue that has put it in the line of fire. Many Conservative Republicans in government have tried to cut funding because of the controversy surrounding abortions. In 2011, one piece of legislation almost ruined the organization; "under the Pence amendment, other clinics that provide reproductive health services to low-income men and women would still get Title X funding, as long as they didn't offer abortions, and the government would still pay for Medicaid recipients' reproductive health care" (Marcotte, 2011). However, this would be a clear violation of what the organization stands for. Thus, Planned Parenthood has stayed...
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