Planned Parenthood should be defunded by the USFG

Thanks for accepting, I'm sure we're going to have a great debate. Contention 1: Planned Parenthood is a key contributor to biomedical research PP is a uniqe and difficult to replace contributer to medical researchers. They donate a large supply of stem cells which is hard to obtain for the researchers. Planned Parenthood provides this in bulk. So you may be asking, why is this so important. Well stem cell research is an innovative new phenominon with absolutely amazing potential. 1. Stem cell research offers the possibility for cure of absolutely horrible chronic diseases, many of which are incurble. We live in a world where people can just be just minding their own bussiness and then are given a death sentence. But, this isn't because they commited a crime and were given the death penalty. They are sentenced to death not by law enforcment, but by nature. Whether it be cancer, or ALS the rest is the same for millions. Death. Now I will quote author Mark Stern as he captures the torture of the disease known as ALS. "For five years, I watched my best friend die of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a terrible disease that causes one’s muscles to waste away. First he struggled to walk, then to speak, then to breathe. One tube pushed air into his lungs; another pushed nutrients into his stomach. Toward the end, he could only move his eyes. ALS does not affect the brain; through it all, he remained perfectly aware of his slow-motion torture. After years of suffering, he died of respiratory failure, his body skeletal and ravaged, his mind alert to his suffocation until the last moments of life." It is societies ethical obligation to create a world with minimal disease as possible. There are countless of us who have lost loved ones to diseases. Those of us know best that pain their loved ones and the pain the person themselves have to go through. I am one of those people. At age 6 my my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. Thankfully she was one of the lucky survivors. However, my grandfather was not so lucky. Earlier this year he died of pancreatic cancer. A type of cancer that is practically a death sentence to be diagnosed with. We should look at these losses and give these people a legacy of us creating a world where people don't have to die like this. Is it right for people to die for doing nothing wrong? More so, is it right for us to do nothing about it?Now to continue on the article "Stem cells hold terrific promise for the treatment—and, eventually, the defeat—of ALS." Now I will remind you this is a disease that has been known for years and because of the complexity has seen litle to no progress in fighting the disease. Stem cells offer the possibility for progress that has not been achieved in decades for ALS.Diseases like ALS aren't the only diseases that stem cell research can possibly cure, treat, or help us understand. Understanding the process of cell division and epigenetics in stell cells yield the potential for revoltionary treatment and cures for cancer. Stem cells also hold the potential for treatment of cardivascular disease which is a leading cause of death in the world.It is our moral duty to create a disease free world and stem cell research is a critical step towards reaching that goal. Planned Parenthood is a huge contributor to this step. Cuting funding would be detrimental to the advancment of public health and medicine.2. Stem cell research is absolutely amazing for the economyStem cell research is the epitome of innovation and advancment in economics. This research will revolutionize the economy. Let me give a few reasons why stem cell research is great for the economy. A. New markets. There is a projected regenerative medicine market of 500 billion. That's huge. This would be a great addition to the economy that would help spur medicine growth as well as help hospitals and clinics.B. Jobs. New researches and pharmacists will be needed for this research. In an economy with such a high unemployment rate this is precisly what we need.C. Stem cell research helps eradicate diseases and sicknesses that are a huge ecpnomic burdon on society. Let's start small, ALS. ALS costs the US $256-$433 million yearly. Because it's a rare disease this isn't huge, but every bit of spending hurts. Now let's move onto cancer. In 2010 cancer cost the us 124.6 billion. In 2020 it is projected to reach 158 billion. We must continue funding PP in order to help lower these costs by contributing to stem cell research.Contention 2: STDs and teen pregnancyTeen pregnancy is a serious issue in America and STDs. Among developed countries we have the highest rate of teen pregnancy. If you read this report here: http://www.plannedparenthood.org...... You will see the many ways that Planned Parenthood tackles this issue. It 1. Provides comprehensive sex education that teaches abstinence as well as sexual health information like condoms and other contraceptives. Comprehensive sex education has been proven to reduce STI infections as well unwanted pregnancy. If you read the report it also talks about how it is empirically proven that "Increased Use of Contraception Accounts for 86 Percent of the Recent Decline inTeenage Pregnancy" So by providing teens with contraceptives we only help reduce rates of teen pregnancy, and that's exactly what Planned Parenthood does.Also "Easy Access to Contraception Helps Reduce the Incidence and Cost of Teen Pregnancy" So again that's exactly what Planned Parenthood does. They also offer confidentiality which is proven to attract teens to their services, therefore reducing teen pregnancy.Planned Parenthood should be kept publicly funded because they use the methods that are scientifically proven to work best, that is the best way to tackle the issue of teen pregnancy and the spread of horrible and preventable diseases. They do best, because they understand how teens think and do their absolute best to work with them. Many other programs do not do this, such as abstinence only sex education which has been shown to make the problem worse. Planned Parenthood should be kept because they are the solution we need. If we cut funding to them, I promise you the problem will get worse.STDs take a huge drain on society. Gonnorea, Syphillis, and clamydia costs the U.S. 15.6 billion every year. Lately the prevelence of some stds have increased. A happen to young, low income, poorly eductated minorities. In a time with increasing STD rates sex education and cheap, accessible, resources to teens are key to reverse this trend. HIV is predicted to cost the US 30.7 billion next year.Teen pregnancy in the U.S. costs the government 9.4 billion in 2010. While teen pregnancy is declining it is still a huge issue. In fact, researchers have concluded that the reason teen pregnancy is on the decline is because of increased contraceptive use. Increasing availability to the most efficient way to contraceptives is the way to go in this situation. A test in Saint Lois showed this.A total of 8000 women were given access to free contraceptives. IUDs, the pill, condoms, everything. What were the results?"Teen pregnancies - 80 percent of which are unintended - plummetted. They stood at 6.3 per 1,000 teens in the study group, compared to 34 per 1,000 teens nationally."When women were offered free contraceptives those women's teen pregnancy rate is 18.5% of the national average. That's less than 5 times the national average rate.For those of you who are against abortion you should fully support a plan like this. Under these women abortion rates were 44% of the national average. That's less than half of the regular abortions.Free/cheap and easily accessible contraceptives is part of Planned Parenthood's mission. In other words, Planned Parenthood is a huge part of the solution to the problem of STDs and Teen pregnancy.Now to conclude this contention I'm going to talk more about just how bad teen pregnancy is.1. Teen pregnancy is detrimental to education. The parents are much less likely to A. Learn anything in school while they have the kid. You stress the kids and distract them from what they should be doing at their age, learning.B. Make the parents much more likely to drop out of highschool before finishing.C. Most importantly you harm the child. They are far less likely to be sucessful in a school due to living in a household with a likely financially and emotionally instable family. They are more likely to cause trouble in class making teachers and students much less likely to help the child suceed in school.Education is one of the best options to advance society. In order to foster societies development eliminating teen pregnancy is key.2. Teen pregnancy increases crime, draining societies resources.A. The parents are more likely to escape through their lives with drugs. B. The parents are more likely to go to extreme, criminal methods to get money for their family.C. The child grows up more likely to turn to gangs, drugs and a life of crime. They are likely in search of familial acceptance, escape from reality or trying to provide for their families.3. The children are more likely to grow up in broken homes resulting in single motherhoodA. Children growing up in fatherless homes are 4 times as likely to live in poverty.B. The children are much more likely to be dependent on alcohol or drugs.C. The children are much more likely to fall to a life of crime.D. The daughters are more likely to become teenage mothers and the sons are more likely to impregnate a teenager creating a full cycle.4. The Children with teenage parents are more likely to become teanage mothers or impregnate a teenager.5. The children are much more likely to be dependent on social programs like welfare or food stamps.A. This drains societies economic resources.B. Under these programs you are less likely to have a job, so you aren't contributing to the economy.