Taxpayer Funding of Colleges
Adjusted for inflation, has the average government funding for each college student increased or decreased since the year 2000?
Correct Answer
Inflation-adjusted government funding for each college student has increased by 31% since 2000. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and certain media outlets have blamed steep rises in college tuition on reduced government funding for higher education, but inflation-adjusted funding for each college student is currently at an all-time high and has nearly tripled since 1960. Tuition has risen primarily because colleges are spending more money per student. In conjunction with this, colleges have significantly reduced academic workloads, inflated grades, and failed to instill practical and literacy skills in significant portions of their students.
Abortions Until Birth
This is the latest In Fact. Click the left arrow for earlier ones.Snopes claims it is “False” that “Virginia voters passed a measure allowing abortions to be performed until birth.”
IN FACT, the measure permits abortions up to birth for virtually any reason that any licensed abortionist invokes. Here are the specifics:
- Virginia voters just approved a state constitutional amendment that permits unfettered abortions in the first 2 trimesters of pregnancy and throughout the “third trimester” if any “physician” licensed to perform surgical abortions claims they are needed to “protect” the “physical or mental health of the pregnant individual.”
- Those provisions mimic the Supreme Court’s overturned rulings in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, which decreed that “mental health” can be jeopardized by anything from the “distress” of having an “unwanted child” or the work of “child care” to the “stigma of unwed motherhood.”
- The consequence of granting abortionists unlimited authority to determine what is meant by “health” was expressed by late-term abortionist Warren Hern, who said, “I will certify that any pregnancy is a threat to a woman’s life and could cause grievous injury to her physical health.”
- The question that appeared on the ballot in Virginia’s election didn’t mention the word “mental” or reveal any of the salient facts above.
- Snopes’ fact check of this issue, written by journalist Jack Izzo, buried the word “mental” at the bottom of his article and completely excluded it from his rationalizations.
- In his article, Izzo uncritically relays the claims of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), a group that lobbies for abortion and was caught modifying its clinical findings on partial-birth abortion at the behest of a Clinton White House lawyer.
- Based on claims from ACOG, Snopes alleges that “late-term abortions are incredibly rare” and are only performed because “the baby is “life-limiting,” the mother may not survive the pregnancy or the mother couldn’t have the procedure earlier, even if she wanted to.”
- In reality, the latest comprehensive data from a scholarly journal found that “more than 15,000” abortions are performed each year in the U.S. “at 21 weeks or later,” which is on par with the number of gun murders and about 5,000 times more common than the number of murders committed by police officers.
- By 21 weeks of development, humans look like the picture below and can suckle, hear sounds, make coordinated limb movements, exhibit conscious motor planning, and feel pain.
- Also contrary to Snopes and ACOG, multiple public disclosures by abortion providers show that most late-term abortions are elective and not for medical reasons.
- For example, abortionist Martin Haskell admitted, “I’ll be quite frank: most of my abortions are elective in that 20–24 week range.”
- Likewise, Renee Chelian, president of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers said of late-term abortions, “The spin out of Washington was that it was only done for medical necessity, even though we knew it wasn’t so.”
- Similarly, two doctors at a New Jersey abortion clinic stated that their clinic was performing roughly 3,000 late-term abortions per year, “most” of which were “elective, not medical.”
- Furthermore, Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, stated that he “lied through [his] teeth” about the reasons for late-term abortions because he was afraid the truth would erode public support for abortion. Disowning his previous statements, he then disclosed that such abortions are “primarily done on healthy women and healthy fetuses.”

















