Would/should this work, at *some* price?

Give Women $500 So They Won't Have an Abortion?

Posted Mar 30th 2007 1:54PM by David Knowles
Filed under: State Races, Media, Abortion

"Conservative talk-radio host and State Republican Senator, Dan Patrick, has been doing some late-night math, and he's come up with a nifty way to cut the abortion rate in Texas. Give each mother considering the procedure $500 cash if they agree not to. Since it costs more or less that much to give birth to, clothe, feed, educate, and house a child, this proposal is sure to be a big hit.

"If this incentive would give pause and change the mind of 5 percent of those women [of those who get abortions annually in Texas], that's 3,000 lives. That's almost as many people as we've lost in Iraq," Patrick said.