The Guttmacher Institute predicts a 51% increase in abortions in Oregon if Planned Parenthood loses its federal funding. I assume the reason this statistic is displayed so prominently in the sidebar is because abortion is undesirable. There is a simple solution, then: Planned Parenthood stops offering abortions.

It's a win all around -- Planned Parenthood keeps its funding, thousands of Oregonians continue receiving contraceptive services, fewer pregnancies occur, and the number of abortions goes down.

DamosA: You're right that abortions may not decrease if Planned Parenthood stops offering them. But there's a good chance they would, since PP is the largest abortion provider in the country. Expectant mothers may be less likely to get an abortion if it is significantly less convenient to do so.

But the point of my comment -- which I didn't make clear -- was that if PP doesn't want its funding jeopardized, all it has to do is stop providing abortions.