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House of Representatives,
disagreed with Sluskys research, saying Planned Parenthood was entirely separate
from womens health care
centers.
Planned Parenthood is not
womens health, Whitten
said. We cant interchange
those two. Planned Parenthood runs an abortion facility. Womens health is gynecologists, etc. They are separate,
and you cannot interchange
those.
Elise Higgins, a spokesperson with Planned Parenthood
of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, said Sluskys research goes
along with what the organization has said: Defunding
clinics that provide preventive
services has a direct negative
effect on women.
Higgins also agreed with
Sluskys finding that women who have less than a high
school diploma for an education are less likely to seek preventive care than women with
a higher level of education.
Because education can be
linked to income, that is absolutely true. Having a lower
income makes it much harder
to travel over an hour to get
the health care you need, especially if you work at a job
without flexible times or if you
need child care, she said. Politicians dislike Planned Parenthood because of abortion,
but abortion has nothing to do
with the funding that is cut off
for family planning services.
These policies always end up
hurting the most vulnerable
women in our community."
Slusky said the findings directly impact University and
other college students as they
begin voting in elections and
determining how they evaluate the statements politicians
make about womens health
issues. He added that college
students are in a key age group
when it comes to receiving
preventive care.
KU students are of the
prime age that are served
by these types of clinics. For
many women, the only doctor
they see in a year is a doctor at
Planned Parenthood and the
other organizations. If those
organizations dont exist, it is
possible that KU students are
not going to be getting preventive care as well, he said.
Slusky said the goal of the
research was not to sway a
political argument one way or
another. He said the argument
was determining whether a decrease in preventive care was
justifiable, or if there needs to
be more emphasis on funding
preventative care and making
it more accessible.
With this particular research, what I am hoping to do
is add a piece of nonpartisan
analysis to this conversation
about how much public funding should be going to these
organizations, he said.

With this particular research, what I am hoping to do is add a piece

of nonpartisan analysis
to this conversation
about how much public
funding should be going to these organizations.
DAVID SLUSKY
Co-author of study and assistant
professor of economics at the
University

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