Do you consider advocating this sort of public funding to be consistent with claims of fiscal conservatism?
I see it as 1/100,000,000th of relevance to being “fiscally conservative”.
I do not consider GWB to be a fiscal conservative - not even close.
Given that the current choice is between about $250 for an abortion and hundreds of thousands in various welfare payments and other taxpayer subsidies, um, yes, this is a fiscally conservative position. Have you really thought through what it costs the taxpayers to support the child (often brain-damaged in utero and very premature due to substance abuse) of a non-working, unemployable mother? Public housing, public schooling (including the entitlement to very expensive special ed services), food stamps, Medicaid, and all too often multiple rounds of incarceration and substance rehab programs starting when the child reaches its teens. A fair estimate of the average cost would be $500,000 per child.