That's exactly what this column is about, that federal funds to clinics like Planned Parenthood reduce unwanted pregnancies, thereby reducing the number of abortions. Have you heard about the Hyde Amendment? It prevents the use of federal funds for 99.96% of abortions, paying only for those that threaten the life of the mother or result from rape or incest. Your "compromise" is not a compromise, it holds women's reproductive health hostage to your particular ideological bent. As it is, abortions are either for-profit and expensive, affordable only to the well-to-do, and unavailable to low income women, or subsidized by private donors. Your "compromise" would increase unwanted pregnancies or force poor women into extremely dangerous back-alley abortions. Maybe you think you are compassionate toward the unborn fetus; but really, you are punitive toward the pregnant poor.