My Controversy

http://www.buzzfeed.com/emaoconnor/more-states-defund-planned-parenthood-amid-fetal-tissue-cont#.bn29aMBmR

Recently, there has been much controversy over whether or not Planned Parenthood has been illegally selling post-abortion fetal tissue. Although the issue has not yet been proven to be true or not, states have been defunding Planned Parenthood because of this controversy. 

In the article on Buzzfeed News, it states that Arkansas and Utah have recently cut all funding towards Planned Parenthood. These states do not believe that the organization should receive any funding if they are breaking laws, however, the controversy has not yet been proven. This begs the question, are these states actually concerned with this unproven controversy, or do they just not support the organization of Planned Parenthood in general?

To me, the controversy does not seem to be the unproven accusation of receiving profit for fetal tissue, but rather, the innumerable amount of accusations made against Planned Parenthood everyday. 

This topic is interesting to me because I have followed Planned Parenthood for years and have written about the defunding of the organization before. In high school, I wrote about the negative effects of defunding Planned Parenthood for my school's online news hub, The Potomac Pulse. Check it out!