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Entry: Yes, It's Early Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/yes_its_early#7136 Post contents: I suspect that we are going to find that too many values voters are not so much aganst abortion as merely squeamish about it. I do not know if you watched Olbermann today (a guilty pleasure for me), but he told of the latest ad for SCHIP about a two year old named Bethany who, as they said, if it wasn't for SCHIP would not be alive today. Well, according to Olbermann (and how I wish he had got it wrong - but I fear he did not), the comment around conservative circles was that if the parents could not afford insurance, she should not have been born. They meant, of course, she should not have been conceived, but it is only a short step from there to say "if they could not afford her, they should have aborted". The fact is that for too many conservatives babies are a cause or a means to energize the electorate, but not young people who are going to need help to make it to adulthood, and that some help sometimes may come from them. They do not really see them. They only see what they cost, and they are furious as to having to contribute in any way. People should only have children if they can afford them. And if not, let's get rid of them. We have to pay more attention to the way our economic system punishes childbearing and childraising, and then decide whether or not we are going to get serious as to what a pro-natalist policy should be. Sent at: 2008 09 07