Senior Research Paper - Source Selections

Directions - As you research the topic that you have chosen, document the credible
books, news and journal articles, and other sources below. DUE: Tuesday, October 31,
2017.

● Requirements for sources - you must use a total of 7 credible sources for this paper. Your
sources may include books, scholarly websites, news articles, journal articles, and other
educational publications. Optionally, you may also include one interview and one video
(newscast, documentary, or debate).
● Use the following guidelines in choosing credible sources
➢ Never use Web sites where an author cannot be determined, unless the site is
associated with a reputable institution such as a respected university, a credible media
outlet, government program or department, or well-known non-governmental
organizations.
➢ Beware of using sites like Wikipedia, which are collaboratively developed by users.
Because anyone can add or change content, the validity of information on such sites
may not meet the standards for academic research.
➢ Use this step-by-step guide to selecting credible websites.

1st Prong - Due Monday, October 23, 2017 (by end of class)
1st prong - Establish the context of the problem (What is the history of the problem?)
1. First Context Source
a. URL/Link (or, book title and author) -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-cut-planned-parenthoods-funds-
increase-them/2015/07/31/fe66aad8-379e-11e5-b673-
1df005a0fb28_story.html?utm_term=.20acbaac885f

b. Summary - The author was trying to make her opinion clear about how she does
not think the government should defund Planned Parenthood. Not only are they
removing access to abortion services, but contraception, STI testing, medication,
etc. She believes the government should not have the decision whether you are
ready to build a family or not. They are risking more teen pregnancies, facilitating
sexually transmitted diseases, and producing uneducated sex.

c. Important sentences (quotes) -

■ “The federal money that goes to the organization cannot be used to
underwrite its abortion services except in some rare exceptions.”
■ “Rather, defunding Planned Parenthood would mean taking away money
that it receives from the federal government for contraception and other
essential services.”
 ■ “ Among low-income women who receive publicly supported
contraceptive care at clinics, more than one-third use Planned Parenthood
clinics.”
■ “ One important fact in assessing how to respond is their scarcity. These
involve second-trimester abortions, which account for less than 10 percent
of abortions.”

2. Second Context Source

a. URL/Link (or, book title and author) -
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/338960-senate-gop-bill-defunds-planned-
parenthood-for-one-year

b. Summary - It is saying that the GOP bill defunded Planned Parenthood for an
entire year because the money is not just going to birth control, and STD testing,
but abortion services and republicans do not support abortions. Pretty much they
blocked Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood so they were very close
to removing the clinics completely. People believe that it is not okay, because
many women rely on Planned Parenthood for health care.

c. Important sentences (quotes) -

■ “... in blocking Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood, which
provides women's healthcare and abortion services.”
■ “Two Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski (Ala.) and Susan Collins
(Maine), have already suggested they may not support the bill if it defunds
Planned Parenthood.”
■ “President Trump has vowed to defund Planned Parenthood”
■ "Slashing Medicaid and blocking millions of women from getting
preventive care at Planned Parenthood is beyond heartless. One in five
women in this country rely on Planned Parenthood for care. They will not
stay silent as politicians vote to take away their care and their rights.”

3. Third Context Source

a. URL/Link (or, book title and author) - http://time.com/4626516/planned-
parenthood-defund-republicans/

b. Summary - The author who wrote this article wanted to explain how the
government wanted to defund Planned Parenthood and how they would get their
money to help the community. Without planned parenthood, there are statistics
that say for example, ⅔ of their patients use medicaid for their health care.

c. Important sentences (quotes) -

■ “Defunding Planned Parenthood—a legislative priority of abortion
opponents throughout Obama’s presidency—would have a significant
 impact on the group’s ability to provide health care services, particularly
for low-income women and men. “
■ “... as nearly two-thirds of Planned Parenthood patients rely on public
programs like Medicaid for their health care”
■ “You can’t completely end a public health care system in America and
not think about what the impact will be on the folks who have least access
to care.”
■ “ Planned Parenthood affiliates received $553 million in government
funding in 2014, which accounted for more than 40% of their total $1.3
billion revenue. The money comes not as a lump sum from the federal
government, but largely as reimbursements for services provided to
patients on public programs like Medicaid—services from cervical cancer
screenings to STI testing, but not abortions, for which federal funds are
prohibited.”

2nd Prong - Due Wednesday, October 25, 2017 (by end of class)
2nd prong - Explain its current impact (Who is it affecting and how?)
1. First Current Impact Source
a. URL/Link (or, book title and author) https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-
defunding-planned-parenthood-could-affect-health-care/

b. Summary - In this article, the author states lots of research regarding, what will
happen if low-income women do not have access to these Planned Parenthood
clinics? Research shows that in 2014, Planned Parenthood patients had income at
or below 150% of the federal poverty level People rely on Planned Parenthood for
contraception or testing they need.
c. Important sentences (quotes) -
■ “Planned Parenthood affiliates received $553 million in government
funding in 2014, which accounted for more than 40% of their total $1.3
billion revenue. “
■ “For the first time in eight years, Dannenfelser and anti-abortion advocates
are on the offensive and hoping their electoral work will pay off.”
■ “Then a vote to defund Planned Parenthood came up in the Senate in 2015
as part of a budget reconciliation measure that Obama later vetoed,
ultimately Collins voted against it and Murkowski voted for it.”
■ “Although no federal money is spent on abortions except in cases of rape,
incest or where the mother’s life is at risk, about 40 percent of Planned
Parenthood’s revenue for other services — including contraception,
sexually transmitted infection testing and cancer screenings — comes
from the government, mostly through Medicaid.”
2. Second Current Impact Source
a. URL/Link (or, book title and author) -
 https://students.com.miami.edu/netreporting/?page_id=2364

b. Summary - In the article it states that the defunding of this clinic would affect low
income men and women who rely on this clinic to get the proper health care they
need. Such as testing, vasectomies.
c. Important sentences (quotes) -
■ “Essentially, the bill would cut $300 million in federal aid and grants to
Planned Parenthood””
■ “ ...that de-funding Planned Parenthood would prevent taxpayer dollars
from being used to fund abortions.”
■ “Planned Parenthood offers an estimated three million women annually
with birth control, breast exams, pap tests, cervical cancer screenings, STI
testing and treatment and other health services – all which, are services
that made readily with the help of taxpayer money.”
■ “ To put things in perspective, Planned Parenthood’s 2008 Annual Report
said the organization provided a total of 10,943,609 services.”

3. Third Current Impact Source

a. URL/Link (or, book title and author) -
https://www.cbpp.org/blog/defunding-planned-parenthood-would-leave-thousands-of-
women-without-care
Judith Solomon

b. Summary - This article is saying that most low-income women rely on Planned
Parenthood for birth control, or any reproductive needs. They are completely
removing access for these women, and men as well.
c. Important sentences (quotes) -
■ “Some states have tried to bar Planned Parenthood from their Medicaid
programs by claiming it isn’t qualified simply because it provides
abortions, separate from its participation in Medicaid.”
■ "Planned Parenthood saw 2.5 million patients in 2014. About three-
quarters of them have incomes below 150 percent of the poverty line, and
about 60 percent get their care through Medicaid or the federally funded
Title X family planning program.”
■ “The women most likely to lose access to care under the House bill live in
areas without other clinics serving low-income populations, CBO found.”
■ “Federal Medicaid funds can’t pay for abortions except in cases of danger
to the life of the mother, rape, or incest.”

3rd Prong - Due Tuesday, October 31, 2017

3rd prong - Examine what is being done to resolve this issue. (What solutions have been
proposed? What is working or not working to resolve the issue?)
1. First “Solutions” Source
a. URL/Link (or, book title and author) -
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/849008

b. Summary - In this article, Art Caplan is giving out important information about
why women need this clinic because it does not just offer abortions, but it also
offers quite important needs to be sexually ready and healthy.

c. Important sentences (quotes) -

■ “ Attacking Planned Parenthood isn't new, because one of the services
they offer is abortion. They have constantly been under attack.”
■ “In fact, no public money goes specifically to support the provision of
abortion services. But still, Planned Parenthood gets a lot of public money
for healthcare screenings and treating women's health problems, and to
defund it would leave poor women at a huge disadvantage in terms of
being able to access health services.”
■ “Make it clear that all women consent to having the tissue used, that no
tissue is used without the express consent of the women. Make it clear that
no techniques are modified in any way and that they never will be in order
to get tissue.”
■ “The prime purpose of Planned Parenthood services is to protect the
safety of the woman, not to be in the business of trying to supply tissues to
researchers.”

2. Second “Solutions” Source

a. URL/Link (or, book title and author) -
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/planned-parenthood-is-not-about-
abortion_us_58cf241de4b07112b6472f2e

b. Summary - Republicans think it is okay to remove money from Planned

Parenthood just because they offer abortion services. Most of the funding that
Planned Parenthood receives, does not go to abortions but except of pregnancy
due to rape, incest, or if the mother is in danger of death. In one year there was
650,000 cancer screenings. Most of the funding planned Parenthood goes to
cancer screenings, birth control, medication, and testing for sexually transmitted
diseases.

c. Important sentences (quotes) -

■ “ Because this “defund” provision will effectively block 1.5 million
Medicaid patients from accessing the care they need at Planned
Parenthood health centers. This care ranges from birth control to cancer
screening (Planned Parenthood provides over 650,000 cancer screenings
each year.)”
■ “How do you expect the millions of low income women nationwide who
depend on Planned Parenthood for vital human services to get their needs
met?”
 ■ “The House bill, which the Trump Administration fully supports, says
that people cannot use Medicaid at Planned Parenthood clinics.”
■ “There is a section in the GOP bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act that
would prohibit the federal government from reimbursing Planned
Parenthood for treatment of low-income clients who use Medicaid or Title
X family-planning programs, because, says Congress, some of its clinics
also offer abortions, although for decades, the Hyde Amendment has
prohibited taxpayer funding for “elective” abortions.”

3. Third “Solutions” Source

a. URL/Link (or, book title and author) - https://www.istandwithpp.org/defund-
defined/impact-defunding-planned-parenthood

b. Summary - Republicans are trying to rid of the healthcare that these clinics
provide. Per year, almost 2 million people go to Planned Parenthood for birth
control. Imagine that without these services what are women going to do.

c. Important sentences (quotes) -

■ “Per year, Planned Parenthood health centers provide birth control for
nearly 2 million people, as well as over 4.2 million STD tests and
treatments; over 320,000 breast exams; and nearly 295,000 Pap tests.”
■ “For many women in America, Planned Parenthood is the only place
where they are able to get needed quality care.”
■ “One study found that pregnancy-related deaths doubled after the state
stopped reimbursing Planned Parenthood and imposed stringent funding
cuts for women’s health — and 54% fewer patients in the state received
care.”
■ “Without Planned Parenthood’s over 600 health centers across the
country, many patients would not have timely access to basic preventive
health care services.”