It's Not Just Obamacare: Gruber Says Abortion Is a Social Good

CNS News ^ | 11/25/2014 | Dustin Siggins

[Rusty0604]

Over the last three weeks, MIT professor and Affordable Care Act (ACA) architect Jon Gruber has gone from being an academic, known mostly in policy circles, to the face of political dishonesty and manipulation. Gruber, who helped create and sell the ACA to the American people, has been caught on tape admitting – on multiple occasions – that the law was written to mislead the public.

But that's not all that he's done. As originally reported by Jerome Corsi, Gruber is the author of at least two separate reports arguing that legalized abortion has tremendous social benefit. His work also provided some of the foundation for the 2005 book, Freakonomics, which promoted the idea of abortion as a means of improving society's children.

In a 1997 working paper, Gruber and two co-authors argued that "children born immediately after" the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision saw "improved" lives.

Gruber's work wasn't just seen by academics. The 2005 book Freakonomics – co-authored by another supporter of abortion as a social good, Steven Levitt – took its abortion section from Levitt's 2001 paper, "The Impact of Abortion on Crime," which argued that legalized abortion was responsible for a lower crime rate in the 1990s. And Gruber's work greatly influenced that paper.

[ExCTCitizen]

Yes if the people aborted are like Furguson’s looters...

[556x45]

Yes, any right minded person would have thought of that immediately. They would have also missed Gruber’s intent completely. What Mr Gruber is saying is YOU should have been aborted not him. Its the old liberal tome, we’re your better and know whats best for you. If we decide you need to die then so be it. When they say its for the greater good what they mean is it somehow benefits them. Its all about them NOT you...peasant.