NEWS: How Much for That Baby in the Window?

POLITICS: How Much for That Baby in the Window?

File this one under "unlikely to become law--riiight?" Texas state Senator Dan Patrick (R, as if you needed to ask) plans to introduce a bill to, get this, pay women $500 for their babies. No, I am not shitting you.

The bill proposes to create an "Adoption Incentive Program" which would give

Once you get over the "did they just say pay women for putting their children up for adoption?" shocker, the practical--and, sadly, probable--reasons this won't pass start to come into focus. Obviously--obviously--the state of Texas doesn't want to just throw money around! And certainly not to birth mothers. So the money is only for women who place babies for adoption instead of abortion. But how would you ensure that? Obviously women who put babies up for adoption are unreliable sorts--they might just lie and say that they had chosen adoption instead of abortion in order to get the money. So the bill goes on to declare that

So you're pregnant, you decide you cannot keep this pregnancy, you make an appointment with an abortion provider and you show up and there's a parental consent law (if you're under 18) and a mandatory 24-hour waiting period just to make sure you've thought about this, missy, and now they're also going to try one last ditch oh, hey, but would you reconsider if we offered you $500?

Honey, $500 isn't even going to pay for the extra groceries you'll eat during a pregnancy. Let alone the prenatal care, if you're not insured or on Medicaid, or the cost of the birth.

Senator Patrick, would you agree to take care of a neighbor's dog for nine months for a measly $500? Where the fuck do you get the balls to offer women $500 to rent out their uteruses and sell their children?

Bitch_PhD is pleased to find that we've advanced beyond the era when Jonathan Swift wrote A Modest Proposal; at least now a boy or a girl before twelve years old is a salable commodity.

Cross-posted at Bitch Ph.D.

I always knew there had to be some price for a baby, I just did not think it would be so low.

this is really going to give my booming black market baby business some competition

Hell , our dog cost $1600 as a puppy . Babies are cheap , cheap I tell ya !

Every member who votes for this to become law should automatically have to adopt a kid. If they are so pro life, then let them deal with taking care of yet another life.

fuck texas the circus pays way better

How about simply allowing women to sell their children at market rate?

There is a very large demand for white babies, and im sure an enterprising mother could get a lot more than $500. Probably more on the order of 5000, plus hospital and prenatal care expenses.

Man. It's like they invented DUMB in Texas.

It's not like there's an impediment to putting kids up for adoption. Most states have Safe Haven laws, a baby can be dropped off at a hospital, Police Station, Fire Station, etc., no questions asked.

seriously, i thought republicans were all about free enterprise and shit.

how about we pay women who plan on having abortions $500 to send their aborted foetus to a republican?

But then again, nobody knows what the charges would be from adoption agencies. It would be likely that said baby merchandise would only be eligible for payment if they went through an "approved" agency. Those fees could be well into the thousands.

People will pay/get paid up to $7 grand for a womens eggs. So $500 for a brand new baby is a bargain.

"Obviously women who put babies up for adoption are unreliable sorts" Sarcasm right?

Why stop thier? They can get their money back in the TEXAS baby
auction..YEE HAW !!

So I guess the Bible just isnt enough to stop the horrible babykillers in all of Texas.

I just got this visual of a cattle ranch...but with babies. Yee Doggie!

"Get 'im, Jed! Before he makes his way to the baby gate!"

I'm waiting to hear what Natalie Maines has to say about Dan Patrick.

You know I am having a hard time believing this is actually something that people really came up with and not just a horrible joke. Now if the state was agreeing to pay for all costs incurred I would find this to be alot less, well unbelievable. By that I mean that they actually cared about th ebabies, and that this is not some sort of way to make people have abortions look even worse in the eyes of bible thumpers. "I mean even when we offered them a generous 500 to keep their babies alive they chose to murder them......"

you should visit texass sometime. spend an hour here and you'll know that it's no joke. dumbest damn people in North America...

Only if it has straps around it and is worn as a chastity belt. The bulky look under the pants should be a big enough deterrent.

Mmmm. Bible britches. Sexy.

BTW I was not trying to make a dig at Texas, just the law.

I just say I dont live in Texas. I live in Austin

which may as well be europe compared to most of the rest of the state.

Indeed.

By the way, I've lived in Virginia, New York, DC, Tennessee, and now Austin. I would have to say I find Austinites in general to be better people than in any of the other places I've lived.