The PJ Tatler Gruber on Hot Seat in Front of House Oversight Committee:
Gruber Paper Found That Aborting Poor Children Saves Taxpayers Money
Will this same philosophy be applied to Obamacare IPAB for seniors?
By Paula Bolyard On December 9, 2014
MIT professor Jonathan Gruber was in the hot seat at Tuesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing, answering questions regarding his offensive comments about the stupidity of the American people and his assertions that the Affordable Care Act was passed based on a mischaracterization of the facts.
At the hearing Gruber was asked by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) about a paper he co-authored in 1998, “Abortion Legalization and Child Living Circumstances: Who is the ‘Marginalized Child’,” in which Gruber suggested that children who die as a result of abortion are better off because the majority of them would have ended up in single-parent households and living in poverty.
“So, this gets me to another instance where you committed candor,” Massie said in the hearing. “You conclude legal abortion — and birth outcomes among a birth cohort … and on page 26, you state that your research indicates that the legalization of abortion saved the government $14 billion in welfare payments through 1994,” he continued. “Is providing more access to abortion, is that a worthy social outcome to achieve cost savings for the government?”
“That is not what my paper was about,” Gruber answered. “It wasn’t a philosophical paper. It was about empirical facts.”
Massie quoted the paper: “‘By 1993 all cohorts under the age 19 were born under legalized abortion and we estimate steady state savings of $1.6 billion per year from positive selection.’”
“What did you mean by positive selection?” Massie asked. “Because in this paper you’re talking about providing more access to abortions to a socioeconomic strata of our constituents.”
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