re: #116 jackw33

I’m not saying “charge them for an abortion”. I’m saying that I guess most women who can get together enough money to abort their attacker’s child would do it immediately, without waiting for the state to offer them anything. Unless someone is destitute, most likely money is not the first thing on their mind.
Can’t you see how condescending it is that a raped woman must go to a bureaucrat to be made whole? Don’t you believe that if a woman is capable of managing her day to day affairs and financially stable she and her doctor can address the issue without the government’s supervision?

You raise a reasonable point.

In that case would you be willing to say that a woman who has been raped should be able to get a tax refund/refund from her medical provider/whatever after the fact so that she can get the money back to pay for her abortion without needing to get a government handout in the first place in order to the abortion?

That way the raped woman does not have to pay to avoid the horrors of having to carry and give birth to a child that was brought about by rape and yet she also does not have to stand in line to get every single possible “i” and “t” crossed in order to get that abortion in the first place.