Reply #35: Because the public benefits from it [View All]

Take me. I was a starving student when I had an abortion. I had to pay $200 to do it, which was a huge hardship because I was putting myself through school on a part-time job + student loans. However, because it was subsidized for low-income people , I didn't have to pay the full cost of $600-$800, which would have been impossible for me to have come up with. I might have had to drop out of school and may never have completed my degree. Thanks to being able to have the abortion, I was able to finish school and now I own my own business and contribute a goodly amount to the government, as well as providing jobs for 2 people.

You can moralize all you want, but if my taxes have to cover emergency room visits for people who are stupid enough to drive too fast and endanger the rest of us, then you damn well have to pony up for procedures you don't agree with.