Daily Show Proposes Pro-Life Currency That Can’t Fund Abortions (VIDEO)

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Daily Show correspondent Kristen Schaal has a plan to ensure no federal money helps fund abortions: eliminate virtually all federal spending, and print a special pro-life currency.

Her proposal came in response to House Republicans voting to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood last week. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), in a clip aired by The Daily Show, even warned on the House floor that Planned Parenthood had made the procedure so commonplace that women in her home state were “picking up Starbucks, living their daily lives, and stopping off for an abortion.”

But Schaal said that that vote wasn’t enough, arguing that virtually any federal spending could somehow fund abortions. Fire departments may have to extinguish a blaze at an abortion clinic; the Coast Guard protects swimmers, some of whom may be abortion doctors; NASA could conduct ‘space abortions.’

Stewart tried to stump her, asking how the FAA could possibly fund abortions.

“Mile high club,” Schaal responded. “The number one cause of unwanted pregnancies between Newark and LAX.”

Schaal’s solution to the conundrum? Special currency that can’t be used in any way that could possibly support abortions: Stork Bucks.

Watch the video below:

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