Resolved: The United States Federal Government should end its public funding for Planned Parenthood.

I thank Con for sharing his heartfeld story and it really pulls on my heart strings to the point to where I really had to think if I could bring myself to respond to the debate and argue against his stories. I too share a similiar story, but I do not wish to disclose it publically. Anyways on to the debate. Unfortunately there's a mesh between the two argument's my opponent has made and since they're so intertwined I have to address them collectively.My opponent begins this contention showing how the money is being spent and what operations and programs the companies do. I agree that Planned Parenthood does 3% total abortions, but that's not the reason that I oppose them. There have been many strange corrilations that have occured with Planned Parenthood. We all know that Planned Parenthood is a non-profit organization, but let's take a look at their books when it has come to federal funding. s://saynsumthn.files.wordpress.com...; alt="" />I don't know about you, but I find it quite shocking that nearly $1.3 billion of federal funding could just disappear like that. [1] Before you just dismiss this argument as just some crazy right winged nonsense we have to see that the sourcing of the GAO. Meaning that the federal government's watchdog agency has found that this agency has been misusing its money. Not only that, but there have been countless accounts of Planned Parenthood overcharging states and the federal government in order to get more funding for their clinic. There were even reports that they were over charging clients WAY more than average on a normal operation procedure. [2] Planned Parenthood has even gone out of control with many of their spending habits that the Texas Planned Parenthood has gone $1 million in debt. Not to mention that many of their own clinic leaders were fined money for violating keys campaign laws. In 2008, Cary Jennings violated this law in Texas by failing to disclose it's political contrabutions. To make matters worse those funds were embezzalment. [3] We can already see that apparently Planned Parenthood provides a lot more then just "Planning Parenthood." To further this we can see that they completely do not handle their own money wisely. According to Dian Harrison, Planned Parenthood Golden Gate, announced that the company lost $2.8 million in revenue. The strange thing about this was that Panned Parenthood received a great deal of federal funding and they were reporting losses. To make matters worse we can see that 92% of their employees work at or bellow the poverty line which is shocking with the money that they are pulling in. [4][5]Not let's move on to the funding and abortion itself. s://saynsumthn.files.wordpress.com...; alt="" />I have already shown how Planned Parenthood is not trustworthy with a single penny of Federal Funding, but now I intend to continue to show how they are violating the Hyde Amendment. Once again, here is another graph from the GAO. It shows a direct corrilation between an increasing of federal funds and the increasing of abortions preformed. My opponent may point again to his graph showing that Planned Parenthood only does 3% of their total opperations in abortion, but we have to remember that they have a major transparency issue that the GAO has reported multiple times. Even in Kansas, a Kansas Supreme Court rages over Planned Parenthood creating over 100 false documents so they could preform illegal abortions. [6] In 2010, a similiar case occured in California where there was a case of multimillion dollar fraud case in which Planned Parenthood misused federal funding to artificially raise the price on birth control pills and the prices remain that way to this day. [7] Here we can see that even though abortion is only 3% of their business operations we can see that it means a whole lot more than that. The graph you see above is their 2008 profit margins of abortion vs other types of businesses they offer. We can see that abortion is very profitable for them, so you can see that this is something that they would want to maximize and they have done this by going under the table. [8] We can see that this explains for a lot of the transparency and fraud and even some of their embezzlement issues. We see that since abortion isn't covered by Medicare that there are issues in the system and that it is more costly to get an abortion which hurts the clinic, but when that is worked around they can maximize profits. This is almost completely found true in the graph bellow. We can see that despite being all about "Planned Parenthood" it seems more likely than not that they try to prevent it more via abortions. We cannot have another bad corrupt industry that is nearly more corruption than Boss Tweed's Tamney Hall and this completely demands defunding, but there are many other reasons as to why we should. As I brought up in my last round that we must stick to the Hayek model of "Creative Destruction." Not to mention that my opponent leaves out that there are plenty of other clinics out there that can easily fill this void left behind by Planned Parenthood and this would increase the incentive to continue innovation as I have brought up. Sources1. ( http://www.gao.gov...)2. ( http://www.youtube.com...)3. ( http://www.texaswatchdog.org...) 4. (http://www.washingtontimes.com...)5. (http://www.lifeliberty.net...#) 6. ( http://www.mcclatchydc.com...)7. ( http://aclj.org...)8. ( http://www.lynnscatholictreasures.com...)