Reply #12: Wait til states get a load of the financial consequences.....

[Bozvotros]

With Medicaid going bankrupt and cutting services in most states, they are going to have fun figuring out how to pay for all the neonatal intensive care for preemies, crack babies and infants born with fetal alchohol syndrome and genetic abnormalities. The average cost for preemies is $79000 now. There are more than a million abortions annually. Lots of those will be born with real problems, many which will require a lifetime of care.

Then there will be the need for more child care centers, orphanages, child care and welfare workers, foster parents, therapists etc etc, to care for unwanted children. How many Republican fundies in the armies of compassion do you imagine will sign up to be free foster parents? About as many as are sending their children to fight in Iraq? Not that many.

No. The states, especially the red states won't want this. Give it a year and they will be offering incentives and cash bonuses for abortions.