Fox News Anchor: If Government Won't Pay For Abortions, Won't We Have More 'Low-income Babies?'

It's called testing the limits of propriety.

A remarkable shift for Faux News - they typically toe the "race panic" line on abortion, where the higher frequency of abortions among young middle-class white women (due to cost, preference of career over family, etc) will mean "those people" are outbreeding "real Americans".

Totally fair question.
This is exactly what the Fox cult need to think about when they support zero tolerance for abortions - if they claim control over a woman's body, then they also need to support that woman after the fact.
Otherwise, don't force them to have the baby in the first place.

Ms. Obenshain: "Low income women don't pay for their own abortions and that won't change. The point here is that the government should not be paying for any abortions."

How exactly does that work? On this planet, I mean.

Kate Obenshain is a complete twit. Check out her little rich-bitch expression after the comment about how more "low-income babies" will be born, and her verbal fiddling around just after that while she tries to figure out which GOP talking point to spew.

A beautiful example of how logic works in a different way for the woman being interviewed compared to most of the readers of this blog.

To the interviewee, the poor woman who needs an abortion 1.) should be ashamed of her poverty and herself; 2.) should not be pregnant because she should not be having sex; 3.) should not expect the government to subsidize her shameful decadence by paying for an abortion; 4.) should marry the father of the prospective baby posthaste; 5.) should not be, ideally.

The poor woman is permitted to get busy lifting herself out of poverty through prayer and hard work.

This logic leads to the tortured expression on her face when she heard the question ... her thinking runs along completely different rails from those of her political opponents.

Its a rather cold way to think, but its the only issue that Republicans can really see their own cold thinking demonstrated (the "I got mine, I don't care if anyone else gets theirs" thinking). They need to realize that their religious principles cost a lot of money. Health care for lower income babies is only part of it. How about the tax money that pays for food stamps? Or the subsidies for low income housing and home improvement? How about the cost of cops and prisons? Do some of those unwanted babies turn into criminals bred by ghetto and gang life? I bet they do. This was my thinking way back around 1990 when Michigan had Medicaid-funded abortion on our state ballot. It failed. And now we're paying for it.

I'm not familiar with the anchor, so I won't speculate as to whether she normally asks insightful questions, but if this had happened on a "liberal" network, I think she would get credit for a pretty smart carpet-pull. Just because reporters don't usually ask the painful questions doesn't mean those questions are beyond the pale. What's wrong with asking " do any of these amendments talk about the health care for them (low-income children) then?" Assuming all the awkward frontwork was just preamble for context, this is a GREAT question! It gets right to the heart of the hypocrisy of the whole abortion discussion.

Aren't all babies low-income?

Whatever it takes to get the wingnuts behind a woman's right to choose is A-OK with me.

Can we reduce tax subsidies to media outlets and cut the rate of ignorant news reporters hired by Fox?

I just watched Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Ms Camerota just made his Worst Person list for this very incident. Please disregard my previous post.

Classless is NOT---> Cr@pping out 10 babies and expecting society to feed, house, and incarcerate them, not to mention the millions spent on the average shot up gangsters hospital bill, we, our society, has to pay for that. Even if you are not the one getting shot....

Is it moral to overpopulate and kill the entire planet to satisfy the way sick religions need to rationalize killing everything? And what is Jesus' plan anyway? To overpopulate and burn away every life sustaining resource, is that what "Holy" folk must do?!?

When the Earth goes completely rancid from overpopulation, we won't be weeping for the lost opportunities of those anti-socials without opportunity anyway... We'll all probably experience another die off went the big plague hits..

~(For you religious children, this thing I'm referring to is called plague, also known as the Earths autoimmune response, and assumed to be most effective when accompanied by FEVER... It's not Ole Satan on a Horse like you're thinking, or that non-issue {insert dramatic sting here} The Great Swine Pharmaceutical Cash In!!! But rather, it's what is certain to occur if we continue to overpopulate wo biodiversity. It's what happens, universally, within overpopulated, homogenized petri dish samples. And no, it's not the terrorists fault, and hopefully it will not be the direct result of the NWO oligarchs scientific endeavors either, (I hope!)

This is just how mother Earth purges herself of religious parasites, and the socially and naturally unintelligent diarrhea which is too retarded not to breed so much as to threaten the health of it's host.

I understand that reproduction is fun, and babies are cute, and that the U.S. needs human cattle to compete against Chinese factory working morons - (Look that way to explain why we're dumbing the kids down with "No Child Left Behind", but that's another blog, that one....)...

The fact is, you respect the species, and have hope for your own children, (Yes it's that Imminent), then attempt to develop a natural respect, awareness and intelligence, regarding biology and the fact the this solar system behaves as an organism, or you will be expelled like so much diarrhea...

Seeing as how I'm forced to inhabit the same compacted and sickened bowels, here, I'd much rather you grow a brain and forget the sunday school rationalizations, for the sake of everyone you share this planet with... Your crusade to save welfare babies hastens our planetary demise, not to mention the more immediate spread of gang culture to an elementary school near you!!!

Duh???!!!!