Friday, July 8, 2011

Pay women to have babies if they can't have a legal abortion...fair?

If a person is drafted into the army, the government has to pay that person. The state drafts people into military service because the state deems that service essential to the state. If a state forces a woman to go full term against her wishes it must be because the state has decided that her pregnancy is essential to the state in some way. The 13th amendment is very clear on this....no involuntary servitude is allowed. After the birth, because the product of that birth was a result of the state's action, some significant compensation should go to the mother who, given her druthers would never have gone full term except for the intervention of the state. Some say the state is intervening in a homicide so according to some abortion is 'murder' so a law must be passed to prevent this murder. Yet no state will write an anti abortion law that will charge the woman who has an 'illegal' abortion for murder for hire. If it's not murder, what is it? If it is murder and the woman has hired someone to commit the murder it stands to reason...she should be charged. How tricky would that be? So, if the state insists on involuntary full term pregnancies...pay the lady! Or, call it murder and put her on trial. I say leave her alone to make her own decision...or pay her, or call it a homicide. Thoughtful answers that address the question would be nice.

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