Posted by
Young Republican on Friday, August 10, 2007 2:50:01 PM
Want a solution for the out of control spending done in Washington? You may not like the answer but it is a simple one, fund abortions. Funding abortions for poor women (only if they choose) is a step to lower costs. From the purely fiscal standpoint, the average abortion costs $350-$750. Now common sense leads to the question “If you can’t find $500 for an abortion, how on earth are you going to able to pay for a child?” The answer is they don’t. The government (taxpayer) does. The amount it will cost to send a child to public school cost the taxpayers, $500,000 per child. The budget for the food stamp program, which primarily helps poor families, is $59.3 billion dollars. The TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) budget is $16.5 billion dollars. Put in the billions upon billions in health care costs and it makes no fiscal sense, whatsoever, to not fund abortions for poor women.
As a separate matter some will say, why should my tax money go to fund something that I, and my religion do not agree with? There are religions which prohibit members from getting organ donations, yet the country continues to fund organ transplants. The 1st Amendment clearly states "congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." As long as abortion is a constitutional right as it is now, to end a pregnancy during the first trimester, we must respect and extend those rights to poor women. The government must legally look at abortion as any other medical procedure. More importantly it cannot afford, financially, not to. The fiscal benefits are absolutely clear and demand attention. We have to acknowledge that you cannot be a fiscal conservative and also be against tax funded abortions.