Abortion

Over the past two years the Texas legislature has defunded Planned Parenthood Clinics and the result has been a 13% reduction in abortions. One good result of this is that the state has vastly increased funding for Women’s Health Clinics. One interesting sideline is the report on the cost associated with the increase in births since most of these prevented abortions were for poor women. The state's health commission says Texas will see nearly 24,000 unplanned births between 2014 and 2015 thanks to these cuts, raising state and federal taxpayer's Medicaid costs by up to $273 million. Just think this through for a minute. The suggestion is that one way to save tax payer money is to provide more abortions. Fast forward 18 years and asked these 24,000 people what they think about the issue. A few years back there was a ridiculous idea that the government put crack cocaine into the inner cities to kill of black people. That was not true but the government did have a very good program designed to kill off blacks and that was abortion. Blacks represent 12% of the population but 36% of the abortions. Think how much money that saved the taxpayers!