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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps some terms you might understand:

Those babies will be American citizens. It is in the taxpayers’ best interests to maximize good health. [/quote]

Yes. If they are going to be born here, then the labor and delivery will be in hospitals anyway, because a woman in active labor cannot be turned away from emergency care (this is already federal law).

A delivery where there is no prenatal care is an extraordinary role of the dice. These infants, if born here, are going to be US citizens after birth [b](that is also federal law)[/b]. Bringing them into the world with significantly more poor outcomes is a greater stress on the system than providing adequate prenatal care. This does nto even have to be made on moral grounds -- an economic justification, purely about conserving resources, suffices. [/quote]

It's the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.

But yes, as a PP said, the OP's objection is not based on fiscal policy, it's based on the idea that people shouldn't ought to get stuff the OP thinks they don't deserve - even when it benefits everyone if people do get that stuff.[/quote]

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