I like Sen. Coburn, but his argument that national debt is a more morally compelling problem than abortion doesn’t really track well. It surely would if you are pro-choice. But if you’re pro-life, it’s a bit goofy. He says:

“The greatest moral issue of our time isn’t abortion, it’s robbing our next generation of opportunity,” Coburn told reporters at a breakfast meeting Thursday at the National Press Club. “You’re going to save a child from being aborted so they can be born into a debtor’s prison?”

I’m on a deadline, so I can’t weigh in on all the ways this isn’t logically compelling, but I think it should be self-evident enough.

Moreover, it just seems like a bad political argument to make because it’s not going to persuade pro-choice liberals and it’s only going to tick-off pro-life conservatives. Who is going to be moved off of their position because of this argument.