Providing mothers taxpayer-funded financial incentives to refrain from abortion

[maryjk]

If you’re talking about America, the last time I looked, conservatives gave more than quadruple what liberals do to charity despite making less money.

I was responding to a comment that conservatives would never go for something that costs money.

 

[francisca]

Financial incentives to prevent abortion or infanticide are by definition incentives not to kill. “I’ll pay you if you don’t kill this child.”

If a mother refrain/ cancel the abortion, she is just another pregnant woman.
The abortion prevention is basically to help a single mother to raise her child.

Whether she initially wanted to abort but cancelled is irrelevant information.

However, financial aid can be designed to target a certain problem, example: abortion prevention.
If the target is to prevent abortion, then the form of help is matched with the condition of women who typicaly want to abort her pregnancy. But such aid should be made available for all women who match the condition, not only for those who initially wanted to abort her pregnancy, because once she decide to keep the child, abortion is irrelevant.

At the abortion centres, then, the information about the financial aid is made known to these single mothers that they actually eligible for such aid. It should be made known to other single mothers who match the condition but didn’t want to abort her pregnancy as well.

It’s the sort of precedent one is reluctant to set; in the end we might have to pay everyone not to do evil.

In the end, what a fetus need is love.
Whether such love available is the reason why a fetus can grow and live and continue living.

Morality questions that claim recognizing the humanity of the fetus must capable to answer to such love.

If it is about raising the tax, then why not? These unwanted fetus is the result of immorality of the society. I think it is fair for the society to pay for their care and education.

If I were the gov (be glad that I’m not ), I would tax men who spend their money on sex business in order to pay abortion prevention spendings. :bounce:

 

[SimmieKay]

My point is, I am tired of people trying to claim that conservatives somehow don’t want to help people in need.

Conservatives help plenty of people.

Claims like “conservatives are mean and greedy and selfish” are the kind of cheap gutter politics we can all do without.

One doesn’t have to identify as conservative to be pro-life. (I think that describes me to some extent.) Surveys (see pages 8 and 9) find that around 15-20% of the US population combine social/cultural conservatism with economic liberalism. I’m sure many of those people are pro-life.

Simon