Back in the good old days of Roe v. Wade (unless you were a fetus) we paid poor people to have abortions. Ok, we didn’t pay the money directly to them, but instead paid it through Medicaid to their abortionist.
Abortions that were not paid for by Medicaid were almost always paid for by private insurance or were done for free at abortion clinics as a “public service.” It’s safe to say that the killing of hardly any babies was paid for by the mother, except perhaps in a lifelong emotion way. That’s the way we set up the system.
We didn’t want such women to have babies. We figured that someone who could not figure out the pill, condoms, the IUD, abstinence, the rhythm method, the morning after pill, or the word “no” or even “it’s my period,” was someone we didn’t want as a mother.
So why don’t we pay poor people to get themselves sterilized? That way, they’ll never need an abortion – which is getting harder to get, by the way.
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