Posted on 11/26/2014 6:42:11 AM PST by wagglebee
In case we needed another reason to be frustrated with Jonathan Gruber, America’s most infamous architect who insulted our intelligence, he also 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.
It is upsetting, to say the least, that someone who thought so highly of Roe V. Wade was helping to craft our national health care law. Perhaps it explains why Obamacare is filled with abortion subsidies and plans that indirectly fund the procedure.
Gruber isn’t the only one with influence on Obamacare who once promoted abortion rights. Former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius held a close political relationship with abortionist George Tiller, who faced criminal charges for performing illegal late-term abortions. Tiller was murdered in 2009 by an anti-abortion activist.
How many other government workers have hidden abortion agendas?
At least we can be comforted to know that a record number of pro-lifers are heading for Congress this January.
LifeNews Note: Cortney O’Brien is a Townhall web editor, where this was originally published.
So, the left thinks it's better to just murder them.
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A bigger economic benefit would be derived from post-birth abortions of over-paid statist government consultants.
I find this, in itself, a poor argument.
Many morally unthinkable actions would have positive effects.
For example, quick and sure execution for possession of marijuana would almost certainly reduce its use. But not too many people would be in favor of it for that reason.
Putting people to sleep when they reach 70 years of age would be highly beneficial to the economy in the long run.
And one can continue the list indefinitely. But we don’t do, or even consider doing, certain things because they are quite simply wrong, no matter how objectively beneficial.
...and college professors, think tank liberals, etc.....
Should we “abort” Ezekiel Emmanuel when he turns 75? I mean, it’s just a late term abortion, right?
Gee, I wonder how he’d like to be retroactively aborted.
Notwithstanding what I said above, someone with a strong personal belief in the rightness of a policy should not be trusted to do objective cost/benefit analysis.
Gruber obviously believes strongly in government-paid healthcare, and probably is strongly prochoice.
It is therefore wise to take analysis of the effects of these policies from him with a very large container of salt grains.
One can only guess at the number of specialized camps that Progressives would open if they had absolute, unfettered power, unmediated by the Constitution.
(They’re such brilliant, enlightened beings who can be trusted with decisions involving matters of life and death.) /s/
IMHO
While it's an "economic benefit", It's not so good for one's soul.
It’s what maggot infested twisted minds call logic progressives march on.
Using the argument that abortion helps the economy because people are spending money, it can be logically extended to hiring a hit man to kill someone.
Yes, and I can already see that he ignores the one obvious economic negative due to abortion: we aren’t producing enough children to keep paying for our unfunded liabilities.
It really doesn’t matter if your family is slightly better off for having fewer children, when the entire country is going bankrupt because of it.
So, when health insurance companies decide coverage and costs based on statistical data, it is the evil side of capitalism.
But when gov’t does it, everyone applauds.
Not to worry. We have their replacements lining up at our southern border as we speak.
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