Washington Post distressed that defunding Planned Parenthood would cause more babies to live

‘Washington Post reporter Sandhya Somashekhar believes the biggest problem with the possible defunding of Planned Parenthood is the thousands of additional pregnancies that will be allowed to continue.
The newly released American Health Care Act includes a provision in the bill that would prohibit states from directly spending federal funds on entities that provide abortions. That would mean that Planned Parenthood, which is responsible for more than 300,000 abortions each year, would have difficulty finding sustainability.
According to a new budget analysis from the Congressional Budget Office, which assesses the fiscal impact of major legislative bills, they predict that excluding Planned Parenthood from the Medicaid program would leave 15% of low-income women without services to help avert unwanted pregnancies. Analysts believe that any savings of federal money would be partially offset by the fact that there would be “several thousand” more births paid for under Medicaid, which already picks up the costs of about 45 percent of all U.S. births. And many of those new babies would likely qualify for the Medicaid program.’
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