It ' s obviously fair to argue that government isn ' t the way that these places should be funded . I ' m kind of a socialist by necessity . Basically if the government is going to keep fucking us by giving favorable tax laws to billionaires and sending jobs overseas and prioritizing Wall Street profit margins over the American people . they can at least provide us with some decent social benefits . If we could go back to Reaganera wealth inequality levels , stop outsourcing jobs , have pay rates where all full time workers can actually afford the necessities to live without needing welfare on top of it , etc . then I ' d lean more towards small government and letting people take care of themselves . But I doubt this will ever happen . So if the economy is rigged against the nonwealthy and the government has removed the ability for people to take care of everything themselves , then it ' s now the government ' s job to step in and take care of things like Planned Parenthood for us . I just hope they have the sense to 1 actually pay for it instead of just add it to the deficit , 2 get the tax money from the people who will suffer the least from losing it .