Why do Repubs(and some Dems) have such problems with public financing of abortions?

Point 1: If abortion is legal, and is a medical treatment, it only seems logical that it should be funded at least as adequately as other treatments that people have access to on Medicaid.

Point 2: Lots of women that cannot afford abortions, but would like to, have no choice but to carry the fetuses to term. This results in extra money being required to provide for these babies that would have been aborted had the women had financial access. Public financing of abortions, perhaps even all abortions in this country, would arguably produce considerable cost-savings in both federal and state budgets- especially at a time like now in which state and federal governments are not exactly awash in cash.

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Please don't, I beg you

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nt

...I can certainly see the outcry.

However, the people are opposed using the taxpayers' money to fund abortions generally have no problem using the taxpayers' money to fund wars...

Most people are opposed to drug use but needle exchanges are done in a lot of major cities.

There is a difference between thinking something is bad, and thinking something is morally wrong.

is the violation of a woman's rights to choose. Fetuses have no legal rights in the first and second trimester.

I don't think that a small cluster of cells has any rights.

I was simply saying that there is a difference between being opposed to an activity (watching too much TV) and being morally opposed to an activity.

nt

I have to finance that.

Still, this is one of those issues that seems to me to not be a smart fight when we're trying to get EC and protect the right to prescriptions, etc.

For many, an abortion is one of several options to pregnancy. In my opinion, medicare and medicade should cover the cost of the proceedure if it is medically warrented.

are never considered important. :(

we haven't had mental health care parity in this country for forever and it's definitely time.

They shouldn't have sex if they don't have the money for an abortion. It's just a cosmetic procedure, anyway.

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freakshows. theyre all freakshows. the people who say this crap

Some people imagine that they are.

But yes, it would be a good idea, I think.
If you can't afford an abortion, how are you even going to afford to take care of your pregnant body, much less raise a baby? It is unfair to deny abortion to poor women. It's unfair to the women, and it's unfair to their unwanted babies.