Thursday, March 29, 2007
Abortion: The cost of changing your mind
A Texas senator wants to pay women $500 if they change their mind about an abortion after showing up at the clinic. Steven Levitt thinks about this:Honestly, though, is it really such a bad idea? What if he left out the part about visiting an abortion clinic? Does it make sense to subsidize women who were going to give up babies for adoption? I think maybe it does. There are large numbers of parents who want to adopt, and a shortage of mothers willing to put healthy babies up for adoption. There are laws restricting what prospective adoptive parents can pay the birth mother. Providing a subsidy to birth mothers (perhaps conditioned on testing negative for drugs and doing a full set of prenatal hospital visits) sounds like a pretty sensible thing to do.
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am i too cynical or does anyone else think that this kind of proposal would just lead to some women having kids for adoption to get 500$? I mean where is the down side? The health care is free and so is the adoption. Get pregnant and get paid?
If we wanna spend money for social engineering why not just pay uneducated and unwed women 500$ a year NOT to get pregnant?
mike
If we wanna spend money for social engineering why not just pay uneducated and unwed women 500$ a year NOT to get pregnant?
mike
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: 5:10 PM
: 5:10 PM
At this point in time there are over 1.3 million couples in America looking to adopt...1.3million..(thats scary)...
# posted by : 5:13 PM
: 5:13 PM
Let's pay them another $500 to deliver the baby in Mexico. Now we're on to something big.
# posted by : 6:25 PM
: 6:25 PM
Some women who have no plans of aborting might just go to an abortion clinic and then change their mind. I'd do it and I am far from being poor. Easy $500. If multiple clinics give out $500, even better.
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