For exactly 100 years as of October 2016, Planned Parenthood’s services have included tests and treatments for sexually transmitted diseases, breast examines, affordable contraception, pap tests, abortion services, etc. However, the new administration is planning to deny their right to governmental funding.

Planned Parenthood was originally founded in 1916 by Margaret Sanger, sister Ethel Byrne and Fania Mindell in Brooklyn, New york. The clinic was originally founded to provide women with the proper care and information needed to live healthy lives. Currently, Planned Parenthood services both men and women.

Though it seems beneficial, many U.S. citizens have taken a stand against the organization, in order to lower the country’s abortion rates.

Planned Parenthood performs 1 in 3 of the abortions in the U.S. For some, this may pose as an issue, however for others it is simply right. Nonetheless, having it be half the country is pro-choice while the other half is pro-life, the controversy of defunding Planned Parenthood is fifty-fifty. President Donald Trump, however, is strictly pro-life, and is planning to make changes regarding abortion laws during his term.

What sparks the problem is not the defunding of abortions within the organization, but the necessary services for men and women beyond this that will also lose government funding, such as cancer screenings for women who are at risk of having breast cancer.

Although Planned Parenthood generates a significant revenue, without funding they would sink, and people dependent on their offerings would either be hopeless, or in search of new clinics, which may result in dangerous abortion procedures.

Speaking of the public’s reliance on Planned Parenthood, the organization is, in fact, America’s largest provider of sex education, as they implicate comprehensive, medically accurate curriculums for schools and programs, as well as educators and advocators. Teens and young adults in need of necessary information may be at a loss if Planned Parenthood is defunded.

This could mean an increase in unplanned pregnancies. According to their website, in 2012, Planned Parenthood provided 3.7 million women with contraceptives. Therefore, these almost four million women would suddenly become denied of their affordable birth control, which can put these women, especially those of which struggle financially at risk of having absolutely no contraceptives.

Though statistics show abortions would be decreased if funding was cut, the issue of abortion itself currently stands as controversy in this nation itself.

The fact is, as controversial as it is, the notion of ending Planned Parenthood is feared by millions of men and women, solely because of the nation’s reliance on their services, and how millions can and will be affected by the defunding of Planned Parenthood.