"Kathleen Sebelius, the Health and Human Services secretary, she said that it's important that we have contraceptives because that prevents pregnancy, and pregnancy is more expensive to the federal government. Going with that logic, according to our own Health and Human Services secretary, it isn't farfetched to think that the president of the United States could say, we need to save healthcare expenses, the federal government will only pay for one baby to be born in the hospital per family, or two babies to be born per family. That could happen. You think it couldn't?" – Michele Bachmann.
Kevin Drum unpacks the quote. Of course, it's also perfectly possible that Obamacare could mandate the infanticide of any heterosexual-acting baby, or limit whites to one, while allowing minorities all the family they want. Now let's see how long it takes for someone on the Christianist right to make those arguments. But, hey, it worked for Palin … up to a point.
The Dish 