Told
Ya So
 In
my Rant
of 6-26-13 I
conjectured that the GOP was only interested in denying
birth control and abortion
services to women because it cut into their profits.
No babies, no vast, expensive infrastructure to keep
them
housed,
fed.
Several
readers pooh-poohed this notion but thanks to a new
story by The
Nation I'm pleased to say "You're all wrong!
WRONG WRONG WRONG!"
According to the story a normal vaginal birth in the
U.S. can cost upward of $30,000, $50,000 for a C-section.
This
is approximately
ten times, for instance, what the average French birth
costs. You'd think for all that dough you'd get what
you pay
for
but the U.S. currently ranks 50th in infant mortality.
If you eliminate
the million (estimated) abortions each year that's a
cool $40 billion dollars in new babies for hospitals
to pocket. Not too shabby, especially if you're a fat-cat
hospital administrator.
So now let's also make birth control much more difficult
to attain, something which Republicans are gleefully
trying their
darnedest
to accomplish. Multiply those new accidental citizens
by $40,000 and you can
easily
see
what the GOP is really up to, and what they really care
for.
It ain't you and it ain't your babies.
=Lefty=
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