re: If Alabama was actually serious about lowering abortions

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Are you suggesting that not paying the father time-off is reason and cause to abort a baby?

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I'm not suggesting that anything is a reason to have an abortion.

I do know that when you read surveys about why women elected to have an abortion, you quickly find a pattern of economic and familial instability.

So why not attack those root causes? People on this board say all the time they would rather pay for the social welfare of unaborted children than to continue the practice, this is a concrete policy that would demonstrate that.

There are 6,000 abortions in Alabama every year. If you can prevent even 5-10% of those by guaranteeing women that they will still have a job after they give birth, that they will not suffer financially (immediately) while they recuperate, that their partner will be there to help them - would thay not be worth it?