Typically, anti-abortion activists and conservative politicians oppose abortion on moral grounds, equating the process to murder of an unborn fetus. Evidently, they must find every human life to be valuable. Maybe even priceless!
….Well, no, not priceless exactly. As it turns out, one conservative Texas lawmaker values the life of an unborn fetus at about $500.
Texas State Senator Dan Patrick has proposed a bill that would make it state law to offer expectant mothers considering abortion $500 to have the child, and then consider adoption as an alternative:
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.
Critics say the proposal would violate Texas and federal laws against buying babies, which Patrick rejected as “the typical ridiculous criticism.“
Yeah, I guess criticizing the treatment of children as property is kinda “typical,” now isn’t it? Never mind the fact that when a dollar amount is put on the head of a newborn, all kinds of nastyness can follow. Take for instance the extreme hypothetical (but still possible) case of low likfe “professional” deadbeat mothers. In a world where there are mothers who have been charged with trying to sell their kids for crack, isn’t it feasible that someone might purposefully try to get knocked up a couple of times to earn some cash?