Your net worth is $1m. How much would you give to save the life of an unborn child?

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So in the context of the Irish referendum I have been wondering about the commitment of individual Catholics to individual human life as they see it. If, by giving much of your net worth, you could save the life of an unborn child, would you? And if yes, why have you not done so before now, as many such opportunities must have presented themselves?
 
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In your community there are Right to Life organizations.

Support them generously.

With your time and treasure.

The Knights of Columbus purchases sonogram machines and donates them to local Right to Life groups. Support them as well.
 
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If you’re trying to bait us into saying we would give less money to save an unborn child than a born one, which means we are hypocrites in terms of how we define life…

…it doesn’t work that way.
 

As of 2015 there were 1,918,122 knights


By 2019, the 10th anniversary of the ultrasound initiative, the Knights have set a goal: 1,000 machines for more than a million lives.

Since 2009, Knights at the state and local levels have partnered with the Supreme Council to fund the ultrasound machines. The 829 units placed so far have gone to centers or in mobile medical units in all 50 states, as well as in Canada, Guatemala, Jamaica, and Peru.

http://www.kofc.org/en/members/programs/culture-of-life/ultrasound-initiative.html#/

Through the Ultrasound Initiative, since 2009, state and local Knights of Columbus councils have teamed up with the Supreme Council to fund about 900 ultrasound machines, costing approximately $44 million, for placement in pro-life pregnancy care centers (PCCs) in all 50 states, and Canada.

Now, the Supreme Council is offering additional funding when an ultrasound machine will be used in a mobile medical unit.

ULTRASOUND MACHINE MATCHING FUNDS
Through the Ultrasound Initiative, when a state or local council raises 50% of the cost of an ultrasound machine, the Supreme Council will provide the other 50% of the cost to complete funding for purchase of an ultrasound machine that will help a PCC to provide for the health of mothers and their unborn children.

Ultrasound machines provide abortion-vulnerable pregnant women a new way of viewing the life within them.

 
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Dugtrio1 said:
If you’re trying to bait us into saying we would give less money to save an unborn child than a born one, which means we are hypocrites in terms of how we define life…

…it doesn’t work that way.
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No, I did not think of that comparison. I am always stuck by the extreme content of the discourse about abortion and wondered if there was a way of quantifying the level of opposition through a thought experiment.
 
I would like to point out that 1 million really isnt that much money anymore. If you’re a 60 year old with a 1 million dollar retirement portfolio that needs to last you 30 years at a 4% withdrawal rate that is $40000/yr., $3333/mth. Which is not a lot. Also in terms of net worth does this hypothetical person possibly own their real estate outright or not? Because someone can have a net worth of 1 million, with lets say $250000 in a paid off house, but only $750000 in liquid assets. Which still gives them a net worth of 1 million, but lessons the amount of liquidity they have.
 
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As an adoptive parent, who has close friends who are also adoptive parents, I can tell you that many, many children who were once in danger of being aborted are now growing up in loving homes. And our annual income isn’t even one tenth of a million dollars. I’ve seen pro-“choice” people try to act like there’s no one who will love and raise these children. We are out here, I promise you. Go to any Catholic Social Services or secular adoption agency even, there are waiting lists that are years long. The problem is definitely not a lack of willing, loving, stable families.
 
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I wouldn’t give 5 cents. Paying people to do the right thing doesn’t work, and its on them if they decide to kill them.
 
Money don’t buy you happiness but it can give you access in DC… oh wait 🤔
 
My wife and I donate to St judes and we when die St Judes will get a portion. To answer the question, none.
 
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I can’t agree with this. Every year and sometimes during the year I donate to Catholic Charities of Southern Missouri. It operates one home for “at risk” women and is starting another one. They take women who are in the worst kinds of circumstances. No money. No job. No support group. Sometimes substance abuse. Often battered and mentally abused.

CCSMO provides a place to live, counseling, medical care, job training and job referral. I can’t say all of those women were saved from aborting their babies, but some of them have said that they were.
https://www.ccsomo.org/services-programs/lifehouse-crisis-maternity-home/

I also contribute to Sisters of Life, who do those same things. www.sistersoflife.org
 
My charitable contributions include to various pro-life organizations. I subscribe to the “give til it hurts” maxim.
 
FiveLinden said:
So in the context of the Irish referendum I have been wondering about the commitment of individual Catholics to individual human life as they see it. If, by giving much of your net worth, you could save the life of an unborn child, would you? And if yes, why have you not done so before now, as many such opportunities must have presented themselves?
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I have a worse gotcha for you–If by giving much of your million dollar net worth, you could save the life of born children (and you totally can), how much would you give? And if yes, why have you not done so before now, as many such opportunities must have presented themselves?

It’s just as uncomfortable a question if you think about all the needy born people around the world–so that’s not really specifically an abortion question.

Speaking for myself, after my husband and I learned about Dave Ramsey, we started budgeting every month, and there was about a seven year period where we scrupulously gave away 10% of our after-tax income. About half of that went to our parishes and the other half went to a charity that feeds and cares for the local poor. The charity was founded by our diocese, but is now independent and ecumenical. Right now, we are giving a lot less, but we have three children in private school and my grandparents are in their 90s and live two thousand miles away, and I have been prioritizing making sure that our children have a chance to visit and have a relationship with their great-grandparents while they are still living, as well as having a chance to have relationships with the rest of my family. In future, my husband wants us to give 20%, and I expect we will eventually do that.

In the meantime, we give a little (probably 4 or 5% of income right now) and lend out our unused baby stuff and I am giving away our youngest’s clothes and toys.

As with a lot of Americans, a lot of our net worth is equity in our house, and the other half is in retirement accounts. We could, theoretically, give away our retirement savings–but then we’d have to pay a large penalty on the withdrawal. We have very, very little money available in cash.
 
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Another thing–my husband supervises a lot of graduate students, and a lot of them are raising families on a small income. Whenever one of the graduate families has a baby, we give a check big enough to cover a crib and an inexpensive stroller. I’d like us to give a little more than that, but again, our finances are pretty tight right now given that we are at the most expensive point in our own parenting years.
 
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I donate to charities that are pro-life. I would continue to do so. Whether the amount given increased or not would be between, God, the charities and myself.
 
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The Knights of Columbus purchases sonogram machines and donates them to local Right to Life groups. Support them as well.
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If memory serves, each machine costs about $160,000, and saves an estimated four lives per week on average.

The majority of mothers do not kill their child after viewing.

hawk, Grand Knight
 
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Zero. The child’s life is priceless, and I will not be blackmailed.
 
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