Outrageous Reallocation of Planned Parenthood Funding

Birth Choice Health Clinics, a staunch supporter of abstinence-only education for young women seeking sex education and abortion options within the Orange County area, is slated to receive the reallocation of funds ripped from Planned Parenthood by the Orange County supervisors a few weeks ago.

The fact that the religious leanings of the supervisory crew could so detrimentally affect the access of young women to factual information about their legal options is outrageous. The fact that, in a nation where freedom of religion is a cornerstone, where we've gone so far as to ban 'God talk' in schools and push the Pledge of Allegiance out of the classroom due to religious overtones, this blatantly misinformed decision on the part of those who would like to impose their moral and religious views on the general populous, ignoring overwhelming evidence proving that abstinence-only education does not work, is abhorrent.

Funds given to Planned Parenthood were used for education and examinations, for religiously unbiased, medically sound advice to the poor, marginalized and disadvantaged women of Orange and San Bernardino Counties. Denying women access to every tool legally at their disposal in favor of imposing an idealistic set of options wrought of those who concern themselves more with fetal rights than the rights of the living children of our nation holds none of our democratic principals in reverence, and acts in a dictatorial fashion shove the belief system of the few down the throats of the rest. That, my friend, is not democracy, nor is it American.