Tiahrt ripped for comments re: tax-funded abortions

Submitted by kdalons on Wed, 07/22/2009 - 11:28.

Kansas Congressman Todd Tiahrt is facing criticism for telling the truth.

The congressman's recent comments targeted tax-funded abortions, arguing such services would encourage single moms living below the poverty level to abort their unborn children. Tiahrt then made this supposition: "If you take that scenario and apply it to many of the great minds we have today, who would we have been deprived of? Our president grew up in those similar circumstances. If that financial incentive was in place, is it possible that his mother may have taken advantage of it?"

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