Pixy,
I cant say I agree with your premise. Infectious disease generally comes back to choices of the individual. I havent gotten the flu for 9 years, this year I got it. I can trace it directly to my personal health choices as my exposure to the flu was no different this year, but my diet and excersize regemine was significantly poorer. Not all diseases are like the flu, but the point is that if there is a large market for curing a disease, it will get taken care of by the market.

Just because the government isnt funding healthcare, doesnt mean that the “public” will somehow not be provided for. The market is based on demand. If there is a demand, a supply will be created. We dont need government funding for that.

True but my point was: it’s immoral to force taxpayers, who oppose slaying of infants, into subsidizing it with their tax money.

I would be delighted to see the end of publicly-funded just-about-everything, including publicly-funded health care. We seem to be stuck with it for the moment, though, and Guy does a fine job of explaining how publicly-funded abortion limits the damage.

The point in 2 is that:
(a) The users of state-funded abortion are disproportionately those who are in any case a charge on the state and whose children can be relied upon to be too.

Imagine yourself as woman who wants a termination. If you are independent, you’ll go private, because state-funded services are slower and the whole process will be more unpleasant than it need be. And possibly unreliable. In parts of Britain, historically Birmingham and Glasgow in particular, it can be difficult to get a National Health abortion.

(b) From the taxpayer’s point of view, even leaving aside the argument of possibly avoiding a new generation of welfare dependents (and at least some criminals according to Leavitt), paying for an abortion is a better bargain than paying for full term obstetric and paediatric care.

There’s a huge problem with this idea: Infectious diseases. Infectious disease is a public problem, not a private one.

1. I would be delighted to see the end of ‘publicly’ (meaning tax) funded healthcare.

2. I have do not understand what point you are trying to make in your second point. Taxpayers are ‘productive people’ and by forcing them to pay for medical services for other people, it is they who are having their ‘pockets picked’.

1. I will be happy to dispense will public funding of abortion when everyone is ready to dispense with ALL publicly-funded health care.

2. I cannot think of a delicate way to put this, so here it is, full-strength: Public funding of abortion is a way for productive individuals to protect themselves from yet more extensive picking of their pockets.