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Mike Johnson: “A birth is more expensive than an abortion.”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Mike Johnson's Speech at SBA Pro Life America Event

Published | Video Starts at 02:16

She was praising the fiscal virtues of what she says are averted births. Listen to this. As she sees it, states ought to promote abortion because, hey, that's great fiscal policy. She said, quote, A birth is more expensive than an abortion. Who ever thought we'd live in a world where you could put a dollar value on a human life and make it a political speech that people would applaud? (02:16–02:20)

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Asserts that a Colorado official claimed births are more costly than abortions.

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