Your tax dollars and abortion

Regardless of one’s views of abortion, the idea of spending tax dollars on it is rightly seen much differently. A 2023 poll found nationally that 60 percent of Americans including 38% of self-described pro-choice individuals opposed taxpayer dollars being used to fund abortion.

Of course, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham doesn’t care much about using the State’s considerable budget surpluses effectively and she has proven her fealty to the most radical pro-abortion wing of the Democratic Party. Today, for example, she headed to Las Cruces to break ground on a $10 million taxpayer-financed abortion clinic. Sadly, while roads and other infrastructure need to be improved, the taxpayers of New Mexico are paying to build an abortion clinic primarily to “serve” Texans seeking abortions.

And, thanks to a RGF public records request, the Foundation found that the State of New Mexico is spending $500,000 (again of our tax dollars) to advertise and promote New Mexico’s pro-abortion laws among medical professionals in Texas. Other reports have cited a $400,000 price tag for the campaign, but at $499,967.27 the overall cost is MUCH closer to $500,000.