'Infanticide saves money, y'all!' CBO warns of deficit increase due to 'additional births'

Sarah D. | 5:48 PM on October 03, 2017

Brace yourselves, folks. We’ve heard a lot — and we mean a lot — of awful arguments in favor of abortion, but this may very well take the cake:

The 20-week abortion ban being voted on soon would add $175M to the federal deficit due to increased birthshttps://t.co/tMMuP7DcJK

— Alex Ruoff (@Alexruoff) October 3, 2017

From the CBO’s analysis of H.R. 36, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act:

CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 36 would increase direct spending, primarily for Medicaid in order to cover the costs of additional births under the act. Because the number of abortions that would be averted due to the act is very uncertain, the extent of that additional Medicaid spending is also very uncertain. Depending on the number of additional births under H.R. 36, such Medicaid costs could range from about $65 million over the next 10 years to about $335 million over that period. Using an assumption that, under the act, about three-quarters of the abortions that would occur 20 weeks or more after fertilization under current law would instead occur earlier, and the remaining one-quarter would not occur so those pregnancies would be taken to term, CBO estimates that federal spending for Medicaid would rise by $175 million over the 2018-2027 period.

Full-term pregnancies? Additional births? Well, we certainly can’t have that!

https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/915324766252232704

What. https://t.co/Tj4865LRgu

— Karol Markowicz (@karol) October 3, 2017

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And … that’s awful. Absolutely awful.

Woo-boy…that's a humdinger of a talking point right there.

— Hellion 2172 (@hellion2172) October 3, 2017

Using this logic, mass murderers such as the Vegas shooter actually reduce the federal deficit…. https://t.co/NLpNUBXq1S

— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) October 3, 2017