Texas politician proposes new state law to halt abortions

[LiberalHeart]

Could 500 bucks be the deciding factor in whether to get an abortion or take a pregnancy to full term?

http://newsgrinder.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-many-women-would-forego-abortion.html

(edited to fix spelling)

[MADem]

1. Babies, getcher babies, five hundred bucks!! We pay double for white ones!!!!

Gee, how nice, CHOOSE LIFE!!!!!!

When is TX gonna stop euthanizing their prison population on death row? When are they gonna choose life on that end? Or are they only worth anything when they are less than thirty days old?

This hasn't a rat's chance of passage. It's slavery--trading humans for cash. And they want that kid FRESH, too--not more than thirty days old. And five hundred bucks won't pay your hospital bills or fund the clothes that pregnant women need. If you're gonna pay, assuming you could get beyond the unconstitutional aspects of the law, I mean, really--PAY. This guy must think having a baby is like taking a big, somewhat constipated shit. What an insulting, pandering and empty piece of legislation.

I love that bit about having to give the kid UP to get the cash. Sheesh. They want to make sure poor folks who need a bit of money don't try to pretend they are gonna go get an abortion to get a few hundred bucks. Ahhh, the smell of compassionate conservatism!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070324/od_nm/texas_abortion1_dc

Patrick has filed legislation to make the payment state law, but the legislature has not yet voted on it.

His proposal calls for giving any woman going to an abortion clinic the $500 option, to be paid no more than 30 days after the baby is born and given up for adoption.

[LiberalHeart]

2. Did you see the link to Culturekitchen?

It was added later. They call it The Texas Baby Purchasing Act of 2007, and really rip it apart.

[MADem]

3. PRICELESS!!!! Seventy bucks a POUND!!!

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Make this into a cottage industry and you have American Lebensboren.

[KingofNewOrleans]

5. Let's start puttin' babies on EBAY!!

It's what Jebus would have wanted.