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An interesting theory popped up at a town hall meeting in western Oklahoma. U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn was there to trash talk the health care bill and try to explain why he has a hold on a bill that would help military veterans.
But the interesting, that's the best word I can think of to describe what was said, notion came from one of the audience members. A man asked Coburn if "unrestricted abortion" would be part of the health care bill. He then went on to say that he thought abortions are one reason the automobile industry has struggled. Hold on, it gets even more "interesting."
He said that if all those babies had been allowed to live and "become productive members of society," they would have been around to purchase automobiles.
I'll give you a second to collect your thoughts.
Following that, I guess we'll call it logic, would mean that all how many millions of fetuses would have been born, finished school, got a job and then bought a new car. That certainly would have helped out the auto industry.
That's assuming – and we all know what assuming does – that they all or even the great majority would have become "productive."
More likely, most of those fetuses would have been a broken home, without proper medical care or parenting, would have never finished school and eventually been a part of the sad circle of unwanted kids.
It must be nice to believe that all kids are wanted and loved. It must be nice to believe that all children are conceived by loving parents. It must be nice to believe that all kids are born healthy and live happy lives.
But believing doesn't make it true. And believing that makes about as much sense as Coburn's hold on a bill to help veterans and the Oklahomans who let him get away with it.
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