Social Conservatives Ass Backwards. Again

Republican logic:

Want to lower unwanted pregnancies, abortions? Under fund Planned Parenthood.

"Abortion opponents are pressing state and local governments to stop sending taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood, arguing that the nonprofit group has plenty of cash and shouldn't be granted scarce public funds at a time of economic crisis"

The single best thing you can spend money on to reduce the number of abortions, not just in this country but around the world, is Planned Parenthood.

via Slate:

If you define pro-life as preventing abortions, Planned Parenthood is the most effective pro-life organization in the history of the world. No, it doesn't give teenagers the idea of having sex. That idea comes to them quite naturally, thank you very much. What Planned Parenthood does, more comprehensively than anyone else, is to distribute the means and knowledge to control your risk of getting pregnant when you don't want to be pregnant. And those two things, combined with pressure to exercise that control assiduously, are the surest way to prevent abortions. If you wait till women are already unhappily pregnant, you're too late.

Preventing unintended pregnancies is the goal. Ask Sarah Palin how effective she was in teaching her kids. We need services like Planned Parenthood, despite your convictions [and don't use the pro-abortion angle if I'm pro-choice], because birth control and sex education works.

Contraception helps prevent abortion. Defunding Planned Parenthood is buying more abortions.

via Elizabeth Nolan Brown:

only about 3-5 percent of PP services are abortion-related anyway; the majority are actually aimed at preventing abortion (by preventing unwanted pregnancies), with the rest devoted to basic women’s health services (mammograms, pap smears, etc.). If anyone is actually going to purchase and give out Planned Parenthood gift cards, it will probably be, say, women’s shelters and charitable organizations that want to help low-income women obtain contraception, STD testing, or basic gynecological care.

Source: Slate