{"id":1559341,"date":"2022-07-18T11:33:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T15:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1559341"},"modified":"2022-07-18T11:35:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T15:35:16","slug":"huffpo-writer-makes-dumbest-pro-abortion-argument-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/huffpo-writer-makes-dumbest-pro-abortion-argument-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"HuffPo Writer Makes Dumbest Pro-Abortion Argument of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhuffpo-writer-makes-dumbest-pro-abortion-argument-of-all-time%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1559341&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The debate over <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/abortion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abortion<\/a> can be messy and complicated. But sometimes, it\u2019s not \u2014 like when bad-faith actors make transparently absurd arguments.<\/p>\n<p>The <i><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/huffington-post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HuffPost<\/a> <\/i>offers us the latest example of shallow, simplistic thinking with its debut of perhaps the dumbest pro-abortion argument I\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"TweetUrl\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There&#8217;s a feasible estimate that Dobbs will add about $13 billion to the deficit over 10 years via Medicare. But few of the traditional &#8220;government spending is bad&#8221; folks want to talk about it.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JHxCeTdZgQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/JHxCeTdZgQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan Nicholson (@JNicholsonInDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JNicholsonInDC\/status\/1547939111620595712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2022<\/a>\n              <\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cGOP No Longer Cares About The Deficit If It Means Women Having More Babies,\u201d blares the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/medicaid-dobbs_n_62d093d4e4b0be7955b1a16a#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headline<\/a> of a July 15 <i>HuffPost<\/i> article.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany Republicans hailed the Supreme Court\u2019s Dobbs decision as a victory for one of their highest-profile priorities: ending abortion. But it comes with a string attached \u2014 more federal spending, which Republicans usually hate,\u201d politics reporter Jonathan Nicholson writes.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholson goes on to explain that because a taxpayer-funded government healthcare program, Medicaid, covers around 40% of births in the United States, more births will mean more tax dollars spent. He estimates this additional expenditure at around $13 billion over 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a party that has been so quick to raise the alarm on federal spending over programs like expanding the child tax credit, Republicans are noticeably quiet about the financial cost that outlawing abortion will have,\u201d Nicholson concludes.<\/p>\n<p>This entire argument is absurd beyond belief.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, the very premise is dubious. Yes, more children being born will mean more Medicaid expenditure. But you can\u2019t look at that fact alone and therefore conclude it will increase the national debt on net. You would also have to weigh all the additional taxes the people who get to be born will pay over their lifetime before reaching any such conclusion \u2014 so Nicholson\u2019s $13 billion figure is sloppy at best and deeply dishonest at worst.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not actually clear one way or the other whether allowing more births would increase the national debt. But much more importantly, this doesn\u2019t matter!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a big deficit hawk (yes, including <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/national-debt-will-explode-under-biden-or-trump-new-report-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when Trump was president<\/a>) and advocate fiscal responsibility. Yet $13 billion is ultimately a rounding error when it comes to our $30.5 trillion (and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usdebtclock.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">counting<\/a>) national debt. Preventing a $13 billion increase wouldn\u2019t make much difference or do anything meaningful to address the ingrained problems with our welfare state that are driving us off a fiscal cliff.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, it has never been the position of fiscal conservatives that 0s and 1s on the federal books are more important<i> than human life. <\/i>We want to balance the budget by cutting waste, scaling back entitlements, and reining in the federal bureaucracy. (Yes, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/2022\/02\/22\/biden-to-request-yet-another-record-breaking-budget-for-the-pentagon-to-waste\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including the Pentagon\u2019s budget<\/a>!) But we don\u2019t and have never argued that saving taxpayers a few billion is more important than human life itself or worth killing unborn babies to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, one of the biggest criticisms levied at pro-lifers is that they\u2019re \u201conly pro-birth, not pro-life\u201d because they don\u2019t support providing government services for babies once they\u2019re born. Now, the <i>HuffPost<\/i> is blasting pro-lifers as hypocrites for \u2026 being OK with providing government services for babies once they\u2019re born.<\/p>\n<p>See the double standard yet?<\/p>\n<p>Liberal journalists might think that this line of argument somehow owns the pro-life movement. But all it really does is expose how out-of-touch the establishment media are with both basic economics and what pro-lifers actually believe.<\/p>\n<p><i>Brad Polumbo (<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brad_polumbo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Brad_Polumbo<\/a>) is a co-founder of <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.based-politics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Based-Politics.com<\/a>, a co-host of the <\/i>BasedPolitics<i> <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/based-politics\/id1535704082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">podcast<\/a>, and a <\/i>Washington Examiner <i>contributor.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The debate over abortion can be messy and complicated. But sometimes, it\u2019s not \u2014 like when bad-faith actors make transparently absurd arguments. 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