South Carolina Bill: Compensate People for Forcing Them to Give Birth

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This is incredible. Imaging growing up and discovering your mom swore that if it weren't for the SC state government giving her services she would have aborted you. Hey mom how did we get this college savings account?

These pro life laws are unfair, because this can happen to a woman and not to a man. That's obviously unfair. It doesn't make them wrong. Government money would be best served incentivising adoption. After such human tragedy of injustice as rape that's the only possible path forward.

I think it would be just as devastating for the child to learn that they only exist because their father raped them into existence. If the money incentivizes the mother to give birth and potentially raise a child she might understandably otherwise detest, so be it. That's the least of the child's concerns once they are born.

I agree that late-stage abortion presents ethical issues. But before then, it shouldn't be up to governments and law enforcement to mandate what grows inside their population members bodies.

Sounds reasonable in cases of rape.

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