Texas State Senator: Choose Adoption and Receive $500
Texas lawmaker offers choice: Abortion or $500 - CNN.com
A Texas legislator has proposed that pregnant women considering abortion be offered $500 not to end their pregnancies.Republican State Sen. Dan Patrick, who also is a conservative radio talk show host, said Friday the money might persuade the women to go ahead and have babies, then give them up for adoption.
He said during a legislative conference in New Braunfels, 45 miles south of Austin, there were 75,000 abortions in Texas last year.
"If this incentive would give pause and change the mind of 5 percent of those women, that's 3,000 lives. That's almost as many people as we've lost in Iraq," Patrick said.
This is a great idea. The government's primary interest is, of course, protecting the lives of its citizens so we should applaud this effort to encourage women not to take the lives of their children. Given that many women cite financial considerations as a reason for seeking an abortion, this financial incentive should be a good thing.
It should surprise no one that Planned Parenthood opposes this attempt to save lives. Is there any abortion they don't support?