Two results of unprotected sex besides the one million abortions/yr:

from the CDC-2006

"Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) remain a major public health challenge in the United States. While substantial progress has been made in preventing, diagnosing, and treating certain S-TDs in recent years, CDC estimates that approximately 19 million new infections occur each year, almost half of them among young people ages 15 to 24.1 In addition to the physical and psychological consequences of STDs, these diseases also exact a tremendous economic toll. Direct medical costs as-sociated with STDs in the United States are estimated at up to $14.7 billion annually in 2006 dollars."

and

http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/20/yes-oral-sex-is-sex-and-it-can-boost-cancer-risk/?npt=NP1

"Yes, oral sex is sex, and it can boost cancer risk-

Here's a crucial message for teens: Oral sex carries many of the same risks as vaginal sex, including human papilloma virus, or HPV. And HPV may now be overtaking tobacco as the leading cause of oral cancers in America in people under age 50.

"Adolescents don’t think oral sex is something to worry about," said Bonnie Halpern-Felsher professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. "They view it as a way to have intimacy without having 'sex.'"

And is not Planned Parenthood supposed to help prevent all of this unsafe sex?

I don't quite know how to say this, but what you two think about this issue is entirely irrelevant to me and to many other people.

This is especially the case insofar as the Christian Evangelicals or Catholics are concerned. IMO there are enough grounds via the Establishment clause to take certain anti-choice Christian groups to court, not to mention the RCC which should be in court on a host of charges.

If you wish to support contraception and wish to devote time, effort, money to promoting it among MEN and women, that is find by me.

Otherwise, keep your hands out of our vaginas and wombs. Slavery has been abolished.

As for the deplorable House vote, my Congressman voted against it. Smart. He might be relected.

Obviously, a perfect birth control barrier system does not exist. Time to develop one!

In the meantime, monomasturbation or mutual masturbation are highly recommended for heterosexuals who need a contraceptive.

Abstinence is another best-solution but obviously the sex drive vitiates this option although being biological would it not be able to develop a drug to temporarily eliminate said drive? Planned Parenthood should make the development of such a drug a high priority.

And as noted previously:

So why do the epidemics of abortion and STDs continue:

From the Guttmacher Institute:

FIRST-YEAR CON-TRACEPTIVE FAILURE RATES

Percentage of women experiencing an unplanned pregnancy

Method Typical

Pill (combined) 8.7
Tubal sterilization 0.7
Male condom 17.4
Vasectomy 0.2
Periodic abstinence 25.3
Calendar 9.0
Ovulation Method 3.0
Sympto-thermal 2.0
Post-ovulation 1.0
No method 85.0"

(Abstinence) 0
(Masturbation) 0

The failure of the Pill as noted above results in one million unplanned pregnancies every year because women basically fail to take it once a day as prescribed. Is there a literacy problem that Planned Parenthood failed to recognize?

The failure of the male condom results in another one million unplanned pregnancies every year basically because many men, as per Guttmacher, fail to use them even though they have them in their pockets or billfolds.

Then there are these additional facts:
from the CDC-2006

"Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) remain a major public health challenge in the United States. While substantial progress has been made in preventing, diagnosing, and treating certain S-TDs in recent years, CDC estimates that approximately 19 million new infections occur each year, almost half of them among young people ages 15 to 24.1 In addition to the physical and psychological consequences of STDs, these diseases also exact a tremendous economic toll. Direct medical costs as-sociated with STDs in the United States are estimated at up to $14.7 billion annually in 2006 dollars."
and

http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/20/yes-oral-sex-is-sex-and-it-can-boost-cancer-risk/?npt=NP1

"Yes, oral sex is sex, and it can boost cancer risk-

Here's a crucial message for teens: Oral sex carries many of the same risks as vaginal sex, including human papilloma virus, or HPV. And HPV may now be overtaking tobacco as the leading cause of oral cancers in America in people under age 50.

"Adolescents don’t think oral sex is something to worry about," said Bonnie Halpern-Felsher professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. "They view it as a way to have intimacy without having 'sex.'"

Obviously, Planned Parenthood, parents, sexually active couples and the educational system have failed miserably on many fronts.

"OK, so let's see your budget cutting proposals."

Hmm...how about raising tax rates to Clinton era levels, changing the exemption health care expenses (pre-tax insurance and itemized deductions) to a credit (at the 15% of 25% marginal tax rate), raising the social security tax limit to cover $190k of income.

How wonderful to have the support of leaders of faith communities take a stand for common sense and humane policy! Thank you for making the point that family planning is a highly moral program that saves lives and reduces the need for abortion.

In the economic times we are in with such a debt, do you think it is time to repeal the TAX EXEMPT law so all can pay their just tax to get this country back in shape as well as all have their TOTAL FREE SPEECH which they do not under the TAX EXAMPT law's rules? Yet one would never think the law had rules from what you hear from thoes groups that pay NO TAX.

NewsBusters: 'On Faith' Trumpets Theological 'Strange Bedfellows' Defending Planned Parenthood Federal Funding
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2011/03/03/faith-trumpets-theological-strange-bedfellows-defending-federal-planne

It is great to see different religious perspectives agreeing on health concerns. Budget cuts that lead to health crises are not budget cuts at all. They are simply political maneuvers. Let's reduce expensive unwanted pregnancies and expensive sexually transmitted diseases by better education and health services to women, children and men.

Thank you! Even simply from a financial perspective, it does not make sense to cut family planning. Denying funding for family planning will only increase the number of abortions and increase the burden on our already over-burdedned health care system with increased needs to provide free and low-cost prenatal care and medical care to women who have had to carry pregnancies despite the serious, life-threatenting health conditions it might cause.

OK, so let's see your budget cutting proposals.

All the programs that don't benefit your own constituents?

Taxing the unborn is a very convenient compromise.