James Peron
Aug 31, 2018 · 1 min read

Thanks. If anything Planned Parenthood is on more legitimate grounds in that the bulk of funding they get is not direct, as in the case of Catholic Charities, but various government covered medical services they provide to clients—and as you note, abortion is not one of them. They are receiving funds in the same way any local clinic does, via customers who are covered by Medicaid or other services. If anything they increase competition and lower prices. Catholic Charities acts directly as a government provider. Most of PP’s work is with people on family planning and treating STDs.

So, they don’t act as a direct service provider for government, as Catholic Charities does, but more like any local physician would. Of course, the biggest difference is Planned Parenthood doesn’t refuse services to people that violate some religious dogma. It is one problem to take money from people without their consent, it is quite another to then insist on the right to discriminate against the people you force to fund you.

    James Peron

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    James Peron is the president of the Moorfield Storey Institute, was the founding editor of Esteem a LGBT publication in South Africa under apartheid.