Baby Selling?

[ls317]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4654720.html


AUSTIN — Houston state Sen. Dan Patrick wants the state to pay $500 to women who give their babies up for adoption instead of aborting them, an idea some say borders on baby selling.

"We want that lady to have an incentive that makes her stop and think about having an abortion and that gives her a reason to put her baby up for adoption," said Patrick, a radio broadcaster who champions conservative causes such as abortion and tightening the border.

The Republican lawmaker's Senate Bill 1567 was referred to the Senate Health and Human Services Committee on Wednesday. No committee hearing has been scheduled for the bill, which has yet to draw any co-sponsors.

"My goal is to save as many babies as we possibly can," said Patrick, who also has a bill to trigger an abortion ban in Texas should the U.S. Supreme Court ever reverse its landmark 1973 decision, Roe v. Wade, legalizing abortion.

[valerief]

1. Why not let the extremely wealthy religious right pay for all medical expenses,

a more substantial fee to the mother, and a good job for the mother (because she'll undoubtedly lose hers due to pregnancy)? That's a far more feasible plan.

[Epiphany4z]

2. well it beats

trying to make abortion illegal. Still this tells you what think. That a woman who has an abortion is just shallow and shellfish. They act as if no thought is put into having an abortion...I hate to tell em $500 ain't gona change nobodys mind.

[valerief]

5. Tehee. Shellfish. You said shellfish. Tehee. nt

[Epiphany4z]

12. lol oops

I must have misspelled it so bad spell check sujested the wrong word...bahhh



Huked on foniks ...but goein too reehab son

[MissB]

3. $500? Cheap bastard.

[razors edge]

4. Definately a puke idea.

All that work for .08 cents an hour.

[Fresh_Start]

6. hell they can sell them for $50K to people wanting kids

I sure as hell wouldn't sell any living thing to the state with the highest child poverty and child imprisonment

[dkofos]

7. This is going nowhere

[no_hypocrisy]

8. The going rate for "baby-selling" in 1986 was $10,000 as per

the case of Baby M (yes, yes, I know, it was a surrogate contract, not true baby selling). $500.00 per baby. That's so Lebensboren.

[htuttle]

9. Perhaps poor Texans could just eat any unwanted babies?

Just a modest proposition, of course...

[MissB]

10. And today's winner in the subject of Literature is...

You! :applause:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. It appears to imply that to Texas Republicans a child's life is worth $500

Considering the source that's actually higher than I would have expected.