We hear about this daily debate over Planned Parenthood and whether it’s considered “right” or “wrong,” but do we really understand the underlying problem being talked about? It's not what you think.

What is planned parenthood?

It is an overall reproductive health care system with the majority of the health care in prevention, primary care, and cancer screenings. It was founded in October of 1916 and closing in on that 100 year mark. Abortions are offered at some, but not all locations. Also, the program has been taken outside of our nation's borders and into the rest of the world to do good for those who don't always have it.

On the website, they explain their goals as, "fighting for commonsense policies that promote women’s health, allow individuals to prevent unintended pregnancies through access to affordable contraception, and protect the health of young people by providing them with comprehensive sex education."

What is the controversy over the federally funded program?

The Center for Medical Progress called Planned Parenthood out when they sent in an “under cover” employee posed as a possible buyer of fetus tissue to see what the reaction was. After releasing a video recording of the interactions at the office, which shows the actual possibilities of the purchase, they accused Planned Parenthood of illegally selling the fetus tissue. After this accusation, a bill written by Senate pulled back the government funding going into this program.

Even after this, Planned Parenthood still denies this illicit selling by saying “that its process is legal and limited to a handful of states.” More states have either questioned their in-state locations or, like Louisiana, have completely diminished their contracts with Planned Parenthood, never mind the fact that some locations in the states do not even offer abortions.

The video released shows the possible amounts of money related to these tissues to be $30 to $100, which protesters have used as a hard attack point, but in reality, the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993 says, “reasonable payments associated with the transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, or storage of human fetal tissue” are legal.

Speaking on the controversial sides of this program, many protesters today stick to their religions when fighting the abortion side of this controversial issue, as well as this newly proclaimed "illegal" selling of aborted humans' bodies.

What to keep in mind as a follower of the topic:

--Selling fetal tissue is illegal, but donations are legal.
--These donated fetus tissues are used for testing and research of present diseases like AIDS, Parkinson’s, and muscular dystrophy.
--The Roe vs Wade case in 1973 makes abortions legal in the first trimester.

What's the answer?

Controversial issues hardly are resolved without blood and tears shed for many decades. In my 18-year-old opinion on the national issue, I say that the abortion protests have been one-sided for far too long. The thought of killing an unborn human-being currently prevails over the mothers’ decisions. Being immoral for aborting an unwanted baby is one thing, but consider the circumstances that come along with these abortions. In many cases these women were raped, another immoral doing that we can all agree on, or are mentally, physically, or emotionally not prepared for this huge life shift.

Many people cling to the idea that if one was stupid enough to get pregnant in the first place, they should have to raise the child, but I disagree heavily with that. A child is brought into the world out of love and compassion, not because it is the humane thing to do. Many people, myself included, do not desire to have or raise children where Planned Parenthood can help out. Their clinics and website inform women around the world about the prevention methods for these life decisions. These decisions should not end with abortion, but should begin in a stage of knowledge of what can be done in the situation.

Planned Parenthood is also saving a lot of parents' asses by informing the youth of the consequences of premarital sex. It's inevitable in today's society, and it's an awkward conversation in the household, so many parents rely on school systems or some other unreliable source for their kids to learn, which leads to a lot of cases of trial and error.

On the controversial topic of fetal tissue market: buying or donating, it doesn't matter, because in the long run, it will all help the community. Dear crazy protesters: thank you for yet again pointing out the flaws of our human race, but lying happens in every field. Check your politics. The benefits of the use of fetal tissue is far more powerful than a closed-minded, all-I-do-is-protest citizen could ever recognize. It goes into solving the problems of our world, which is then translated into every language to help those third-world countries that you were probably fighting for on some issue last week.

Fetal tissue is another alternative to stem cell research, although the fetal tissue can be looked at as recycling. It lived its life, although unborn, and now heads on to do more good for us.

And finally, the violent protests need to end. Voicing your opinion is good, but learning the facts before you go out with pitch-forks and guns is better, because not all clinics even offer these abortions that they fight so vehemently against. As seen by Bryn Greenwood's tweets of each and every act of violence they lived through as Planned Parenthood employees as well as the shooting that killed three people in Colorado, violence seems to be the only way to express opinions in the eyes of the protesters, and we, as a nation, know all too well how violence leads to separation.

No one has a definitive "this is how we solve world hunger" answer, and I don't believe we ever will, but violence will never be the answer either. Planned Parenthood helps more than harms, so why waste all of your breath fighting them when people like Trump is the new American Hitler?