Congressman Slams Obamacare Architect for Saying Poor People Need Abortions to Save Money

Life News ^ | 12/9/14 | Steven Ertelt

[Morgana]

A pro-life Republican congressman grilled the architect of Obamacare today and questioned him over statements he made essentially saying that poor people need abortions in order to save money.

gruber2Gruber once argued that abortion has helped improve our nation’s economy and social environment. In a paper he helped write in May 1997 for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Gruber and two fellow writers suggested that abortion has helped save the nation money and social woes. Here is one of their must infuriating excerpts:

We find evidence of sizeable positive selection: the average living circumstances of cohorts of children born immediately after abortion became legalized improved substantially relative to preceding cohorts, and relative to places where the legal status of abortion was not changing.

Our results suggest that the marginal children who were not born as a result of abortion legalization would have systematically been born into worse circumstances had the pregnancies not been terminated: they would have been 70% more likely to live in a single parent household, 40% more likely to live in poverty, 35% more likely to die during the first year of life, and 50% more likely to be in a household collecting welfare.

The last of these finding implies that the selection effects operating through the legalization of abortion saved the government over $14 billion in welfare payments through the year 1994.

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With that in mind, here’s Congressman Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, questioning Gruber:

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[Paladin2]

So, when does 0don’tCare go away?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

” marginal children “

What an horrific position!

[Impala64ssa]

You know, if pro life conservatives are the racist monsters the LSM and lib/prog types make us out to be, we're doing a piss-poor job at being racist. A true racist would rethink Margaret Sanger's work and want MORE abortions being performed in the ghettos. A true racist would want nothing more than every MLK Blvd lined with abortion and sterilization clinics, as well as in the nation's barrios as well as along the southern border and in the basements of every mosque.

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"A pro-life Republican congressman grilled the architect of Obamacare today and questioned him over statements he made essentially saying that poor people need abortions in order to save money."

They don't save anything because any financial gain from their sacrifice will be confiscated by comrade obama to subsidize his unlimited importation of foreign national dependents to support his political objectives.