Pro-abortion left has new reason to murder unborn babies: Saving money

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Pro-abortion left has new reason to murder unborn babies: Saving money

In the never-ending quest to rationalize the murder of millions of unborn babies, the pro-abortion left controlling the legislature in the once-great state of Colorado has come up with a new reason to continue the holocaust: killing unborn babies is cheaper than giving birth, thus saving money for the taxpayers.

Led by House Speaker Julie McCluskie, pro-abortion extremists want to require taxpayers to pay for abortions of so-called “low-income women” (abortion during any stage of pregnancy is a “right” under the Colorado Constitution, by the way) because providing financial support to help them keep the baby is just too damned expensive (via Media Research Center):

“A birth is more expensive than an abortion,” Colorado House Speaker Julie McCluskie said at a committee hearing this week, touting a legislative fiscal analysis that claims taxpayer-funded abortions could save the state a half million dollars or more annually.

McCluskie is one of four Democratic co-sponsors of Senate Bill 25-183, which would require Colorado taxpayers to pay for abortions for women on Medicaid or enrolled in the state’s Child Health Plan Plus program, or CHP+. The bill already passed the state Senate on a 22–12 party-line vote earlier this month.

“Ultimately, we do achieve a cost savings because of the averted births that will not take place,” McCluskie told the House Health & Human Services Committee on Tuesday.

MRC is right; this is sickening, but not surprising when it comes to those who wear the “D” after their name. However, what makes it even more sickening is how Donald Trump and his army of “pro-life” conservative Republicans in Washington are largely responsible for creating an environment where radical legislation like this is “OK” because murdering unborn babies is now a “states’ rights” issue.

After decades of pretending to defend the unborn, Donald Trump and “pro-life” Republicans adopted a “Mission Accomplished” attitude following the Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson that “overturned” Roe v. Wade. Unfortunately for these lying liars, the number of abortions actually increased after the decision. According to a report by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, baby murder reached the highest levels seen in over a decade in the days following the ruling. According to the report, an estimated 1,026,690 abortions were reported in the formal health care system in 2023, resulting in the highest number measured in the United States in more than a decade. (Emphasis mine)

This shouldn’t be all that surprising to my regular readers and listeners. I wrote before and after the Supreme Court decision that murdering unborn babies would continue to climb because the writing was on the wall that Donald Trump and the Republican Party would use the Dobbs ruling to abandon the life issue in the name of political expediency.

Unfortunately, my prediction came true during the 2024 elections when Donald Trump and the Republican Party abandoned faith, values, and science to push the idea that human life may or may not begin at conception, choosing to adopt the incrementalist approach to abortion by allowing unborn babies to be murdered as long as it was done in the first 15 weeks or so of pregnancy.

A few weeks prior to the 2024 election, Donald Trump — the man who often touts himself as the “most pro-life president ever” — took this position to its ultimate conclusion when he called Florida’s six-week abortion ban a “terrible thing and a terrible mistake.”

Following the Florida ban, pro-abortion groups succeed in getting unlimited abortion up to the moment of birth placed on the ballot to amend the Florida Constitution to enshrine the murder of unborn babies (just as Colorado did). When Trump was asked how he planned to vote on the issue, he dodged the question while predicting the measure’s passage (via Tampa Free Press):

Speaking at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach on Thursday, the Republican presidential nominee said he would hold a future press event to announce his position on the proposal, known as Amendment 4.

“Florida does have a vote coming up on that, and I think probably the vote will go in a little more liberal way than people thought,” Trump remarked. (Emphasis mine)

Why did the “most pro-life president ever” put off giving his position? Perhaps he did give it when he “predicted” passage of the baby-killing legislation because that is what he’s hoping for. It failed, by the way.

Of course, the pro-Trump echo chamber that dominates Con, Inc. in today’s so-called conservative media gave Trump and the Republican Party a pass on “new” pro-abortion position as did the so-called Christians that comprise the Evangelical community.

For example, Fellowship of the Pharisees leader Robert Jeffress not only gave Trump a pass, but he also openly defended “God’s Man.” When asked about Trump’s declaration that he refuses to support an abortion ban, Jeffress said that Trump is “very pro-life,” but that his position is simply his way of “pointing out a political reality” concerning the unpopularity of abortion bans among many voters (via Religion News):

Prominent evangelical leaders close to Trump have not expressed disappointment with his criticism of the Florida abortion legislation. Rev. Robert Jeffress, longtime Trump faith adviser, said he had spoken to the former president about the topic, and framed his comments … as a matter of tactics more than conscience.

Trump, Jeffress insisted, remains “very pro-life” but is “pointing out a political reality” — namely, the unpopularity of abortion bans among many voters and the challenge of passing a federal ban, as several Republican lawmakers and GOP presidential candidates have proposed.

“If there’s going to be a national ban on abortion,” Jeffress said, “there’s going to be some sort of compromise or consensus for legislation to be enacted.”

Asked how that applies to Trump’s criticism of Florida’s abortion ban as a “terrible thing,” Jeffress argued the remarks should be viewed through the “prism of how we’re going to get a consensus.” (Emphasis mine)

Just so you don’t miss it: It is Jeffress’ contention that the political reality of how difficult it is to end the slaughter of unborn babies deserves more consideration than actually trying to end that slaughter.

For those in the Trump cult who believe that Trump’s states’ rights position is the correct one, let me remind you of the wording of the 10th Amendment:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Translation? Things protected by the Constitution cannot be left to the states. Life is protected by the states under Section Five of the 14th Amendment which affirms legal protection for the preborn and guarantees that “No state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”

The political “leadership” in Colorado is clearly far left and pro-abortion, so their attempt to justify murdering unborn babies in the name of “saving money” should come as no surprise. But what’s Trump’s and the Republican Party’s excuse?

 

David Leach is the owner of the Strident Conservative and the author of The New Axis of Evil: Exposing the Bipartisan War on Liberty. He holds people of every political stripe accountable for their failure to uphold conservative values, and he promotes those values instead of political parties.

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