Texas GOP Wants to Buy Your Baby

Via Mother Jones - in Texas they are proposing to buy babies from poor people.

Republican State Senator Dan Patrick recently proposed the Adoption Incentive Program, which some are calling the "Texas Baby Purchasing Act of 2007." Patrick's bill calls for the development of a program to encourage adoption over abortion and mandates that every woman who chooses to carry her baby and then yield her parental rights in lieu of having an abortion receives $500.

There seems to be a pattern emerging here. A few days ago rightwing NYU prof Lawrence Mead suggested in the WaPo that low-income males be forced to work for the government as a means of turning them into compliant drone...uh, sorry, I mean to instill a proper work ethic in them. Now we have the Texas Republicans opening the door to creating a market for the babies of the poor. What's the connection? Just about the only thing that turns on the American right as much as Winston Churchill is the Confederacy. Deep in their hearts, a lot of them would like to bring back those grand old days. These could be the first steps. Of course they won't use the 'S' word, they'll call it something else as a concession to modern sensibilities and PR needs. Come to think of it, maybe that's what they mean when they are talking about the "ownership society".