Fox News Anchor: If Government Won’t Pay For Abortions, Won’t We Have More ‘Low-income Babies?’

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On Fox News earlier today, America’s Newsroom anchor Alisyn Camerota asked whether banning the use of federal money to subsidize abortions for low-income women would lead to “more low-income babies.”

During a segment on Ben Nelson’s amendment to the Senate health care bill that would prohibit the use of federal funds to subsidize abortions, Camerota asked: “If there is no federal money used to subsidize abortions for low-income women, doesn’t that mean there will be more low-income babies, and do any of these amendments talk about the health care for them then?”

Guest Kate Obenshain of Young America’s Foundation sputtered a bit before asking, “Do you mean because more children will be born because the government won’t pay to have them terminated?”

Here’s the full clip:

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