We (American government) should defund Planned Parenthood.

Contention 1: Teen pregnancy and STIs "It is true that PP (Planned Parenthood) does provide these services" So with this Pro concedes that planned parenthood helps prevent Teen pregnancy and STIs. "but so do almost all local and school based health clinics." Well, this is actually not true. In fact only 19 states in the U.S require that any sex education that is taught must have factual base. In other words, in the rest of the 31 states schools can say almost anything about sex education whether it is true or not. Planned Parenthood does what schools should be teaching, factual evidence about sexual health and safe sex. Planned Parenthood also provides contraceptives Then for the rest you talk about the fact the Planned Parenthood also offers abortion. I don't see what this has to do with Teen Pregnancies and STI's but it just furthers their ability to reduce the amount of teen parents and unwanted children. I truly hope this doesn't turn into a debate about the morality of abortion, because that's not what the debate should really be about. Now to further my argument I would like to stress on just how terrible teen pregnancy, parenthood and STIs are. If you look here -> http://youth.gov... You will see that 1. Teen parents are much less likely to graduate high school. 2. Have a very small chance of graduating college. Their kids are more likely to be 1. underdeveloped at birth and more likely to face infant mortality. 2. Have lower levels of emotional support (Mostly from parents) 3. Have behavioral problems and chronic medical conditions. 4. Spend their lives in prison. 5. Not achieve in school and dropout 6. Become teen parents themselves 7. Face joblessness as adults. Children of teen parents also contributes to the creation of poverty and often partake in criminal actions. If we want to stop crime, starting with stopping teen pregnancy is a great idea. Teens giving birth creates a vicious cycle of all of these problems and their kids being very likely to repeat the cycle. The parents and children often become a drain on societies resources by living off social programs. With STIs the less people who use condoms the more people who are infected, and the people who made that choice aren't the only ones who get affected. Other people become infected through those people. This creates an overall unhealtheir society with the less serious STIs, but it becomes worse with serious infections like HIV. If HIV is allowed to run rampant thousands, if not millions will die. And it's not only people who have sex. If a pregnant woman is infected with HIV or AIDS her child has a high chance of being infected with a terminal disease for just being born to the wrong mother. That is something we need to stop at all costs. Contention 2: Medical research Since you dropped the previous contention I figure it's to the best of my interests to bring it up again and turn it into a contention. So as I proved before, Planned Parenthood is helping us innovate and advance our medical knowledge with stem cell research. This has the possibility of helping us cure cancer, cardiovascular disease, Parkinson's and diabetes. This research will also help us treat things such as serious burns. This is another reason why we should keep publicly funding Planned Parenthood. Rebuttal 2: Freedom of Religion As I have proved before by the government funding Planned Parenthood your first amendment rights are in no way being violated. It is against many religions to have an abortion, that is correct, but it is not against your religion for other people to have abortions. That is their choice and not yours. Also my point stands that political change should not be made based on religious beliefs because that violates the very important principle of church and state separation. Rebuttal 3: Plannd Parenthood is not safe for women and young girls Well, there's a lot of logical fallacy in your argument. If you look at the source you provided what happened was a Planned Parenthood worker informed someone who claimed to run human traficking how to preform abortions, and she did not report the person to authorities. This is absolutely unacceptable and inexcusable. As a result the worker was rightly fired and Planned Parenthood fired the worker and retrained thousands of workers. This shows that at least one worker was giving information to who she shouldn't and failed to do the right thing. However this does not mean that Planned Parenthood is not safe for women and young girls. Planned Parenthood only offered information to sex traffickers, while inexcusable and horrible Planned Parenthood itself is not putting anyone at risk. That is the sex traffickers doing and their doing only. This also does not reflect on Planned Parenthood as a whole. A few bad apples does not mean it's a bad tree. For example, in the public education system there are a few instances of a teacher or worker sexually assaulting/raping students. That is horrible and inexcusable, but it does not mean that the public school education system is unsafe for students. Also, as you stated yourself, Planned Parenthood retrained their workers to respond more appropriately to this and report the sex traffickers. This is a good and appropriate response, and it shows that Planned Parenthood is really here to help. http://www.ncsl.org...