Even if we allow abortion, the government should not be paying for them. With funding for Medicaid already strained, it makes no sense to add millions of dollars to fund unnecessary abortions when the government is cutting what it pays for medical research (like for cancer) and for care of Seniors and the chronically ill for treatment of life or death medical issues. Almost all abortions are elective. (The Supreme Court challenged abortion providers to provide an instance where an abortion was needed to save the life of the mother and they have never been able to provide one) Eliminating funding for abortions would provide more money for medical care. Cutting funding for abortions would also force women to pay for their own abortions making them think more carefully before having unprotected sex and enable increased prosecution of rapists and those engaged in incest which would reduce the number of babies aborted. (For the facts see “Abortion” in “In The World But Not Of It, Part –A” and study course “Value of Life”)