Romney: Let's get rid of Planned Parenthood!

[King]

I enjoyed Ben Kenobi's circular logic at the start of this thread. Yes, Planned Parenthood gets a third of its revenue from abortions. They don't use their government money towards abortions and would cut out their other services if funding was lost for precisely that reason. Abortions are profitable and breast cancer screenings are not. The point of government subsides is to make crucial but commercially unviable products sell. By forcing them to go free market, you are forcing them to either (a) eliminate valuable health programs that have nothing to do with contraceptives and (b) try to promote an increase in contraceptive profits in order to self-subsidize the rest of their nonprofit business. As there is not enough support to outright ban abortion, removing Planned Parenthood's funding wouldn't eliminate abortions but, in fact, eliminate the federal government's role in Planned Parenthood.  This removes any control they might have had over PP's dissemination of information as state laws cannot be applied easily to a national company and, again, their need to go for-profit would probably cause them to have to expand not shut down.