Letter Of The WeeQ

Regarding the Oct. 10 advertisement by Stop Planned Parenthood of Iowa, the Iowa Right to Life Committee and Iowans for Life:

Planned Parenthood spends less than 2 percent of its resources on providing abortions. Its records prove this if people would only take the time to check the facts.

The other 98 percent is spent on providing rural and urban women reproductive health care. That is, mammograms, pap tests, providing birth control (which prevents abortions) to women who cannot afford decent health care because of the cost.

Planned Parenthood is not an adoption agency. Again, an apples-and-orange comparison to try to make the case against Planned Parenthood. Have any of those listed in the Oct. 10 Stop Planned Parenthood of Iowa paid advertisement in the Register adopted children whose mothers could not take care of them for a variety of reasons, i.e. poverty, youth, addiction, etc.?

I'll bet not. This country has left the poor and women out of health-care provisions. Thank God for Planned Parenthood. Keep up the good fight.

-Fran Koontz, Des Moines.

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