Planned Parenthood is going to have to privatize. After a long and lucrative ride as the recipient of taxpayer dollars for abortions and other services, that ship is about to sail. Away. 

The GOP-led House passed an amendment Friday night that would eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood. Not ALL funding. Just tax payer monies. 11 democrats voted in favor; 7 republicans voted against. The measure passed 240-185.

Yes. Planned Parenthood has the right to operate. Yes, they have the right to provide services. Yes they have the right to offer abortions. But what they don't have the right to is federal funding. Federal funding is not a right; it's a dream come true, it's a Godsend for some and it's like money that falls from the sky right into your bank account. But during the worst economic free-fall in American history, somebody, a lot of somebodies, are going to have to bite the bullet. And instead of screaming for money that isn't there, how about using all of their lawyers and doctors and big heads and millions of dollars of surplus $ and just privatize their clinics and continue selling their services without the huge entitlement mentality?

Abortion is a constitutional right, it is not going away. But asking every tax payer in America to fund it during hard times is a hard case to sell. 

The Federal government does not have to fund my abortion or my car or my education.  

There are several issues that complicate the abortion controversy in America and they are never going to go away. They are facts. And because of these facts, the time has come to stop federal funding. Let Planned Parenthood join the free market and abortions can still be had for all. You just might actually have to pay for one.

One of the complicating issues is that Margaret Sanger who founded Planned Parenthood and lobbied for the whole concept of birth control did so for one purpose:  the extermination of American blacks, immigrants and indigents. She wrote about this in Pivot of Civilization, stating they are "human weeds, reckless breeders, spawning human beings who never should have been born." Her writings and views are both numerous and well-known. According to her, the purpose of birth control was "to create a race of thoroughbreds" which she wrote about in 1921.

In A Social History of Birth Control in America by Linda Gordon, she is famously quoted as saying, "We don't want word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."  

Sadly, Sangers vision isn't too far off course in 2011. According to the Pro-life Action League website, abortions by race of the mother are broken down: 

• White 40%
• Black 31.7%  however, they are only 12.9% of the U.S. population.
• Hispanic 20.1%
• Asian/Pacific Islander 6.4%
• Native American 0.9% 

So 12% of the population is having 31% of the abortions. This has not gone unnoticed in the Black community. 

"Let's be clear. Funding Planned Parenthood with U.S. taxpayer dollars is equivalent to justifying the use of tax dollars to help the Ku Klux Klan buy rope so they can secure their victims in the backs of their wagons," writes Walter Hoye of the Issues4Life Foundation in 2011. 

Another complicating issue is that while the Abortion law passed in January of 1973, sonograms that showed the fetal heartbeat at 6 1/2 weeks were just becoming a tool that could be used by doctors and in hospitals in 1972.  It would take several years for them to become widespread and used consistently. An example of a recent sonogram reading:  "The uterus measures 10 F cm in length. There is a intrauterine gestational sac with a single F live fetus with a fetal heart rate of 153 beats/min. The fetal crown rump F length measured 0.89 cm (6 weeks 6 days). A yolk sac is visualized." 

Showing a fetus' heart beating at 6 1/2 weeks contradicted the physicians who testified in support of Roe vs. Wade. They falsely claimed that aborted fetuses were only unrecognizable clumps of tissue with no feelings. This fallacy alone has fueled much of the anti-abortion opinion in the U.S. If indeed we are merely vacumming out a clump of cells, that's one thing. But when we now have a window into a womans uterus and can see a beating heart and a thumb-sucking fetus along with its gender at 11-12 weeks, it presents a whole other set of moral questions.

Add to that the new technology that allows doctors to save the life of a premature child. And that a new generation of parents are using their babies' 2 month sonogram as their babies' "first" picture for the babybook. You have a hard time convincing them that is not a child.

Another complication: According to the May 2009 Gallup Poll, 42% of Americans are Pro-Choice and 51% are Pro-Life. So the 51% are telling the 42% - it's your constitutional right but nothing says I have to pay for it! 

Radio Talk show hosts often comment on the fact that it is not religious people nor conservatives who are having abortions. Abortion goes against their religion and their values. So liberals are vastly over-represented and anti-abortionists like to point out, ironically, that liberals are aborting themselves out of existence. 

And yet another issue that complicates the abortion choice is....adoption. What did women do in America for the first 196 years before abortion became a constitutional right? Two things. They became parents or they put their child up for adoption. Coat hangers no longer remain a desperate choice in a society that not only accepts unwed mothers but celebrates them. Yes, in 1973, unwed mothers were still fairly taboo. Fast forward to the 2011 in the 21st century and you'd be hard pressed to find a scarlet letter anywhere in this country. Also, in the 21st century the quality and quantity of birth control options have improved exponentially allowing women to have a much better chance at preventing accidental pregnancies than in 1973. Times do change.

So when pro-choice supporters scream about coat hangers, pro-lifers see that adoption is a perfectly reasonable alternative and one that is historically accepted if you cannot afford to have your abortion.

When you give your unwanted child up for adoption, you are still free to live your life uncomplicated by an unwanted child, as well as giving that child life and giving a couple a child they will happily raise. 

There are always three options: Parenting. Abortion. Adoption. And they are here to stay. But the time of federal funding to abortion clinics is over. In America, nothing is impossible. Privatize, Planned Parenthood, just privatize.