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'Talking dollars': Pro-life Alaska Republican says society benefits when child abuse turns fatal
Source: Daily Dot
He put a price tag on a child's life.
Claire Goforth Claire Goforth Tech Posted on Feb 22, 2023
Alaska state Rep. David Eastman (R) has inspired outrage after a video of him went viral where he argues there’s a “net benefit” to society when a child dies of abuse because then the state doesn’t have to pay for their care and other services. Eastman campaigned on the “sanctity of human life.”
Eastman, who is also a Capitol rioter and an Oath Keeper, made his comments during a committee hearing in the Alaska legislature on Monday night. The committee was discussing a presentation about how measures to prevent child abuse save the state money in the long run, per Alaska Children’s Trust, a nonprofit advocacy group whose chief executive officer was at the hearing.
“In the case where child abuse is fatal—obviously it’s not good for the child—but it’s actually a benefit to society because there aren’t needs for government services and whatnot through the child’s life,” Eastman said.
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“Talking dollars,” he said, “Now you’ve got a $1.5 million price tag for victims of fatal child abuse. It gets argued periodically that it’s actually a cost savings because that child is not going to need any of those government services that they might otherwise be entitled to receive and need based on growing up in this type of environment.”
Read more: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/alaska-republi...ies-abuse/
'Talking dollars': Pro-life Alaska Republican says society benefits when child abuse turns fatal
Source: Daily Dot
He put a price tag on a child's life.
Claire Goforth Claire Goforth Tech Posted on Feb 22, 2023
Alaska state Rep. David Eastman (R) has inspired outrage after a video of him went viral where he argues there’s a “net benefit” to society when a child dies of abuse because then the state doesn’t have to pay for their care and other services. Eastman campaigned on the “sanctity of human life.”
Eastman, who is also a Capitol rioter and an Oath Keeper, made his comments during a committee hearing in the Alaska legislature on Monday night. The committee was discussing a presentation about how measures to prevent child abuse save the state money in the long run, per Alaska Children’s Trust, a nonprofit advocacy group whose chief executive officer was at the hearing.
“In the case where child abuse is fatal—obviously it’s not good for the child—but it’s actually a benefit to society because there aren’t needs for government services and whatnot through the child’s life,” Eastman said.
. . .
“Talking dollars,” he said, “Now you’ve got a $1.5 million price tag for victims of fatal child abuse. It gets argued periodically that it’s actually a cost savings because that child is not going to need any of those government services that they might otherwise be entitled to receive and need based on growing up in this type of environment.”
Read more: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/alaska-republi...ies-abuse/
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