Republicans are now using the “we will run out of taxpayers if abortion continues” argument. Seriously. http://t.co/IU0VVaP1ak

— YeaYouRite (@YeaYouRite) May 14, 2014

Missouri House Speaker Tim Jones (R) told a local radio station that he and his colleagues are focusing on restricting abortion in order to preserve the taxpaying population. “[If] we were to choose the opposite extreme and the state were not to choose to protect life, well eventually the state would run out of citizens, it would run out of taxpayers, and the state would cease to exist,” he said.