Abortion Is Good Because Babies Are Expensive, Liberal Argues
Limiting the right to an abortion comes with a high price tag, Bryce Covert points out for Think Progress, a liberal think tank, because letting those fetuses be born and live their lives will cost taxpayers a lot of money.
Citing a Congressional Budget Office report on the House-passed bill to ban abortions after the fetus is 20 weeks old, Covert notes that the bill, if passed, is estimated to increase Medicaid costs by $75 million to $400 million over 10 years.
Republicans should be in favor of ending lives before they are born, Covert argued, because they belong to the party of fiscal responsibility. He also believes that Texas lawmakers, who are currently debating their own 20-week abortion ban, want to reinstate funding for Planned Parenthood due to the high cost of the estimated 24,000 babies that would not be a drain on Texas taxpayers today if the funding had continued....
Dr. Mark Allison | 1/20/2013
