July 20, 2014
New 'Conservative' Idea: Monthly 'Don't Kill Your Baby' Payments
At The American Conservative, Elizabeth Stoker Bruening believes she has an answer for conservatives looking to stop the flow in America of purposeful infant death.
Data on why abortions are sought is clear: most women opt to kill their unborn children because of the potential financial obligation. A 2005 study from the Guttmacher Institute found that almost 75% of women surveyed chose abortion because they “could not afford a baby.” A 2013 study found that financial underpreparedness was the most commonly cited factor of women choosing to abort their children.
Bruening argues, “[I]f a woman considers herself too destitute to care for a child, there is no transvaginal ultrasound demoralizing enough and no accompanying narration excoriating enough to make her decision seem any less plausible.” But with the above empirical findings, she thinks she found a way to instill pro-life sentiment among the poorest of Americans.
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