08-18-2004, 09:21 PM
As nice as it would be for everyone to embrace their gift of life, not everybody is a successful white collar professional. Some people have lives which suck to a degree incomprehensable by us. To them, their life is something they never wanted, and never asked for, yet they are still told to kiss up to the one who put them there. Denying them things based on a middle-class rubrick is just crass. It's a different ball game, and what's good for the goose may not be so great for the finch.
The rights of a child are important, and waiving the rights of a pre-child is, ostensibly, abhorrible. However, situations exist where such actions are justified. Instead of trying to get rid of abortion outright or deregulate it totally, since all-or-nothing is such a stupid way to go about things, how about this:
Until such time as conditions exist where abortion can, in good (non-religious) conscience, be abolished, all citizens will contribute, through taxation, child support payments for all non-aborted ebryos/fetuses under legal custody of parties incapable of making such payments themselves, without risking their current standard of life, so long as the parties themselves are impoverished, or will become impoverished making said payments.
Should any of the following conditions be met:
[*]The legal custodian(s) be deemed unfit for parenthood
[*]Habits of the legal custodian(s) will cause irreparable harm to the embryo/fetus
[*]The child be known to have disorders which will present chronic suffering
[*]Financial standing of the parent(s) is deemed too low to support a child with federal aid
[*]The legal custodian(s) will lose their home should they be forced to support a child with federal aid
[*]The parent(s) cannot afford hospitalization due to pregnancy related events, with federal aid
[*]The health and wellbeing of the child bearer is at risk should the pregnancy continue, or the child be born
Abortion may be considered an option, so long as there are no suitable persons willing to adopt the child, within a reasonable time frame after birth.
::PostScript::
Technically, who you are currently is not who you were. The basic capacity and method with which one interprets and stores events post-birth are genetic. Beyond that, it's a product of your experiences.
The rights of a child are important, and waiving the rights of a pre-child is, ostensibly, abhorrible. However, situations exist where such actions are justified. Instead of trying to get rid of abortion outright or deregulate it totally, since all-or-nothing is such a stupid way to go about things, how about this:
Until such time as conditions exist where abortion can, in good (non-religious) conscience, be abolished, all citizens will contribute, through taxation, child support payments for all non-aborted ebryos/fetuses under legal custody of parties incapable of making such payments themselves, without risking their current standard of life, so long as the parties themselves are impoverished, or will become impoverished making said payments.
Should any of the following conditions be met:
[*]The legal custodian(s) be deemed unfit for parenthood
[*]Habits of the legal custodian(s) will cause irreparable harm to the embryo/fetus
[*]The child be known to have disorders which will present chronic suffering
[*]Financial standing of the parent(s) is deemed too low to support a child with federal aid
[*]The legal custodian(s) will lose their home should they be forced to support a child with federal aid
[*]The parent(s) cannot afford hospitalization due to pregnancy related events, with federal aid
[*]The health and wellbeing of the child bearer is at risk should the pregnancy continue, or the child be born
Abortion may be considered an option, so long as there are no suitable persons willing to adopt the child, within a reasonable time frame after birth.
::PostScript::
Technically, who you are currently is not who you were. The basic capacity and method with which one interprets and stores events post-birth are genetic. Beyond that, it's a product of your experiences.