But here's the problem: Defunding health care clinics that perform abortions doesn't eliminate abortions — it eliminates the clinics, which provide a host of other vital services to poor women around the world. Planned Parenthood, for example, told the Times that its international counterpart was forced to close clinics after Bush reinstated the ban. Shuttered clinics mean less access to healthcare for women and less widespread use of contraception — which led to more unwanted pregnancies, not fewer.