Many Americans believe abortion is murder. Bad as I believe their reasoning is, and I believe it’s bad, it’s a fact. Given that fact, it is difficult to ask them to contribute their tax money for murder – though most of them have no problem asking us to contribute ours for the murderous wars that a majority of them support. But for the moment that’s another issue.<\/p>\n
As I write abortion proponents are using the issue to hold up health reform for everyone. There is not much reasonable people can do to stop them. The price of even a small amount of health reform might be to make abortion even more difficult than it is today. But that might finally force some creative thinking on this issue. Here’s my contribution.<\/p>\n
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\nWe who actually respect a woman’s capacity to make these kinds of
\nchoices for herself have a fairly simple solution, but one that I have
\nnever seen discussed. Create a National Trust to provide abortion and
\nrelated funding for women who cannot afford one but need one. Given
\nthe capabilities of online donations, people could donate not just to a
\nsingle fund, but could fine-tune their donations to be in keeping with
\ntheir own judgment as to when abortion is acceptable, and at what point
\nit ceases to be. I personally would not give to a very late decision
\nunless the mother’s health was at stake. Others might. Some would
\nonly give for procedures very early in pregnancy. All would be able to help in whatever way they felt was most needed.<\/p>\n
For example, there could be a fund that could provide help up to the
\nend of the first three months, another up to the end of the second, and
\nso on. Abortions are not extremely expensive medical procedures, and
\nsomething like this would provide considerable assistance to a great
\nmany poor women.<\/p>\n
Some national women’s organization would be the logical “philanthropy
\nentrepreneur.” They already have the national communications network,
\ncomputers set up for online donations, and the staff to get it off the
\nground. Perhaps some reader of this blog has connections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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