I’m for government subsidized abortion. My reasoning is different from anyone I’ve ever heard argue for or against abortion, in that I take the perspective of what I think is most likely best for the would-be child. And as a secondary effect, I believe abortion is a net positive for society as a whole.

When people against abortion understandably say, “it’s murder” or “I’m not paying for this person’s irresponsibility or mistake”, I see it as wanting to punish the woman/couple at the expense/high risk of the would-be child having a shitty life. I’d rather the couple get off “easy” in people’s eyes than to make them have the kid where he or she has to grow up and live an unfortunate life all because the couple should be punished.

I think that if a woman or a couple are having even the slightest doubt about having the baby, the best choice for the kid, the couple, and society is to terminate the pregnancy. Being a parent is such a big responsibility and a heavy burden that it requires a woman or couple to be all in on welcoming new life in to their life in order to be a GOOD parent in my opinion.

When there are doubts, the inevitable stress of raising the child after birth often leads to resentment and a lack of effort when the “going gets tough”. I’m sure there are plenty of good productive people in our society who overcame the lingering knowledge that they were not wanted by their parents. I’m sure there are plenty who prospered even after receiving a lack of guidance or being neglected during childhood. I know it’s said that it’s better to have a life of suffering than no life at all. I just happen to strongly disagree.

For the children who are born from a mother who spits out child after child in order to capitalize on government subsidies, these same children are growing up with their mother being their prime example of how to go about living their life. Gaming the system in the likeness of their mothers, leading to the continuation of the cycle their mothers started all over again.

I imagine the amount of money we spend on each abortion saves society hundreds of thousands of dollars that would otherwise probably be spent on supporting these kids and then their kids and so on throughout their lives in the end. Abortions should to be strongly encouraged in these cases in my opinion.

A solution to limiting abortions would be to incentivize vasectomies for any males 18 – 25 years old. $12,000 seems like a good # to me. The thought behind it would be that if you make the judgement call of taking the money over having kids in the future (whether you need the money or not), you obviously don’t have the highest aspirations of being a parent in the future therefore you probably shouldn’t have kids. And you won't after you get snipped.

Also, if a person gets 2 or more felonies, part of his or her sentence is automatic sterilization. Cutting off that gene pool would be extremely beneficial to society in the long run.