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That is an inaccurate statment! Totally false and based on liberal hyperbole. The GOP will fund organizations that provide health screening and clinics, just not abortions. Again, the government is in the business of propogating poor choices and behavior and a child suffers because, in most cases, the mother doesn't want to be "punished" or "inconvenienced" so dump the kid (and it is a child). Since when does a person get the RIGHT to choose to end someone else's life. They are totally their own person, with their own DNA, their own gentic code, and their own life. They are not an appendage to a woman's body. Oh, and least I forget, we let the screwball dude, who can't keep his penis in his pants and brags about the number of women he impregnates, because the "government" will pay for the kid (should the mom choose to go full term), and we'll pay for the food, and such. Hey if you will take the responsiblity for my actions, go ahead - then I don't have to do it!
I think there's a more pragmatic issue here, though. Even if the ideal situation is one in which people act in their own best interest all the time, we know from millenia of experience that this is impossible. In the end, although perhaps its a hard pill to swallow for some people, its orders of magnitude cheaper to prevent lower socioeconomic class children from being born, if the parents don't want them. They are much higher to require medicaid and go to prison, two of the most expensive things a government can do for a person. Birth control and abortions are negligibly inexpensive compared to these. Moral argument aside, the actuarial benefits are unassailable.