{"id":23118,"date":"2012-11-05T00:12:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T05:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=23118"},"modified":"2012-11-05T09:06:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T14:06:36","slug":"refuting-libby-anne-no-pro-lifers-arent-making-children-too-expensive-to-let-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/refuting-libby-anne-no-pro-lifers-arent-making-children-too-expensive-to-let-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Refuting Libby Anne: No, pro-lifers aren&#8217;t making children too expensive to let live"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/money.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-36\" title=\"money\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/money-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/money-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/money.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Pro-choice denizens of the blogosphere have found a new hero in Libby Anne, whose article \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2012\/10\/how-i-lost-faith-in-the-pro-life-movement.html\">How I Lost Faith in the Pro-Life Movement<\/a>\u201d tries to be a one-stop shop for why pro-lifers are wrong about everything.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Live Action is here to refute her claims, one by one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/news\/investigative\/fact-check\/true-or-false-banning-abortion-does-not-decrease-abortion-rates\/\">Kristi Burton Brown<\/a> and <a href=\"\/news\/opinion\/introducing-ziggy-the-zygote-in-adventures-in-the-uterus\/\">Kristen Walker Hatten<\/a> have already tackled two of \u2018em, and now it\u2019s my turn. Here, I\u2019ll be addressing Anne\u2019s argument that pro-lifers actually encourage abortion because the other policies of pro-life politicians make it more expensive to have children.<\/p>\n<p>(Naturally, left unmentioned is the ghoulishness of deciding whether to kill a child based on finances, making abortion the only area of life where liberals aren\u2019t instinctively repulsed by the thought of putting money above basic human compassion. But I digress.)<\/p>\n<p>Citing data from the Guttmacher Institute (which is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/badcatholic\/2012\/11\/how-i-lost-faith-in-the-pro-life-movement-rebuttal-up-in-hurrrrr-part-1.html\">nowhere near as objective<\/a> as she wants her readers to believe), Anne begins with a simple proposition:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One thing I realized back in 2007 is that, given that six in ten women who have abortions already have at least one child and that three quarters of women who have abortions report that they cannot afford another child, if we want to bring abortion rates down we need to make sure that women can always afford to carry their pregnancies to term. Maternity and birth is expensive, adding your child to your health care plan is expensive, daycare is expensive, and on and on it goes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While it\u2019s obviously true that children are expensive, Anne\u2019s link between low income and abortion isn\u2019t quite a slam-dunk. Analyzing a Guttmacher study on rising abortion rates among poor women, Witherspoon Institute researcher Michael New <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/269221\/guttmacher-abortion-rate-down-overall-among-poor-women-michael-j-new\">points out<\/a> that \u201cthis finding is not consistent among racial and ethnic groups\u201d &#8211; even as abortions spiked dramatically among low-income white women, they rose only slightly among low-income black women and <em>declined<\/em> among low-income Hispanic women, an inconsistency Guttmacher doesn\u2019t \u201cadequately explain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New also observes that there\u2019s another painfully obvious explanation for these abortions &#8211; because state governments are paying for them &#8211; and that, even more embarrassingly for Anne\u2019s side, this increase happens to coincide with an <em>increase<\/em> in public funding of the very services she hails as the key to abortion prevention: \u201cfederal grants to Planned Parenthood increased from $165 million in 1998 to $363 million in 2008.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further, Patheos blogger Marc Barnes, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/badcatholic\/2012\/11\/how-i-lost-faith-in-the-pro-life-movement-rebuttal-up-in-hurrrrr-part-1.html\">another reply to Anne worth reading<\/a>, compares NARAL\u2019s state scorecards with state abortion rates and finds that the most pro-life states tend to also have lower abortion rates &#8211; meaning that if those states\u2019 pro-life leaders are also enacting the burdensome economic policies Anne attributes to them, it\u2019s not having the effect she predicts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If we found a way to offer more aid to parents, if we mandated things like paid maternity leave, subsidized childcare, and universal health insurance for pregnant women and for children, some women who would otherwise abort would almost certainly decide to carry their pregnancies to term. But the odd thing is, those who identify as \u201cpro-life\u201d are most adamant in opposing these kind of reforms. I knew this back in 2007, because I grew up in one of those families. I grew up believing that welfare should be abolished, that Head Start needed to be eliminated, that medicaid just enabled people to be lazy. I grew up in a family that wanted to abolish some of the very programs with the potential to decrease the number of abortions [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>And lately, it\u2019s gotten worse. You see, in some cases conservatives are actively <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2012\/10\/24\/1083101\/proposed-bill-food-stamp-benefits-raped\/\">working to make it harder for poor women to afford to carry unintended pregnancies to term<\/a> [\u2026] In other words, this bill would make it so that if a poor woman gets pregnant, she has to decide whether to have an abortion or whether to carry to term, have the baby, and see her welfare benefits slashed, taking food out of the mouths of the children she is already struggling to feed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to list a bunch of nice-sounding things and then browbeat your opponents for being against X, Y, and Z. It\u2019s much harder to engage the reality that behind the innocuous names and superficial goals lie complex policies with little things called \u201cdetails\u201d and \u201ceffects.\u201d Any serious thinker knows that it <em>isn\u2019t<\/em> the thought that counts, that truly responsible policymaking requires weighing benefits against costs and recognizing that even the most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.econoclass.com\/unintendedconsequences.html\">well-intentioned measures<\/a> can have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.econlib.org\/library\/Enc\/UnintendedConsequences.html\">unintended consequences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, forcing employers to pay for one benefit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/research\/reports\/2007\/05\/congress-should-consider-alternatives-to-mandatory-paid-sick-leave\">means reduced compensation somewhere else<\/a>. The \u201cuniversal insurance coverage\u201d she\u2019s talking about is actually a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galen.org\/topics\/obamacare-wrong-for-women\/\">hornet&#8217;s nest of <em>increased <\/em>costs<\/a> for women. And when conservatives speak critically of our welfare status quo, we\u2019re not talking about throwing destitute women into the streets &#8211; we\u2019ve got very real <a href=\"http:\/\/www.demint.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?p=pickpocket&amp;ContentRecord_id=8b5ec58f-e82b-4690-ba1a-9dd977be2543&amp;ContentType_id=68a61be2-1ba4-4e64-8ebb-2d073518934e&amp;Group_id=71939010-14b3-45b6-ace3-e1bb536b8179&amp;MonthDisplay=9&amp;YearDisplay=2012\">waste<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/279728\/end-food-stamp-feast-robert-verbruggen\">abuse<\/a> in mind, as well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10000872396390444914904577619671931313542.html\">undeniable harm<\/a> done to a populace conditioned against recognizing the difference between a hand up and a handout. (Besides, the conservative theory of government is to make life less expensive for people in a far simpler way: by not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/research\/reports\/2010\/09\/obama-tax-hikes-the-economic-and-fiscal-effects\">taking as much money from them<\/a> through taxes.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I want to say I\u2019m surprised, but I\u2019m really not, because I\u2019m remembering rumblings underneath the polished surface of the things I was taught. This idea that women shouldn\u2019t \u201cspread their legs\u201d if they\u2019re not ready to raise the results of their promiscuity, that the government shouldn\u2019t be expected to pick up the tab for some slut\u2019s inability to say no.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, Anne has just alluded to the ultimate refutation of her point: pregnancy doesn\u2019t just happen. The women she\u2019s talking about presumably <em>know<\/em> they can\u2019t financially handle parenthood, yet have <em>chosen<\/em> to bring the possibility of pregnancy into their lives. All of them could have chosen to say \u201cnot tonight,\u201d and it wouldn\u2019t have cost them a cent. Why <em>isn\u2019t<\/em> it reasonable to expect people to factor basic responsibility into their decision-making? Why isn\u2019t your preparedness for children something you should consider before having sex? And once you\u2019ve brought about a situation you\u2019re not ready for, why should the burden for alleviating it automatically shift to the rest of us? Most importantly, why should your child pay the ultimate price for costs you\u2019ve incurred?<\/p>\n<p>So far, Libby Anne\u2019s reasons for leaving the pro-life movement aren\u2019t withstanding closer scrutiny. Might we win her back? Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never mind for now the ghoulishness of deciding whether to kill a child based on finances&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Refuting Libby Anne: No, pro-lifers aren&#039;t making children too expensive to let live - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/refuting-libby-anne-no-pro-lifers-arent-making-children-too-expensive-to-let-live\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Refuting Libby Anne: No, pro-lifers aren&#039;t making children too expensive to let live - 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