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| Topic | President Trump issues "Born Alive" Executive Order |
| adjl 09/24/20 9:47:25 AM #12: | Who's required to pay for it? If the mother, this seems like a thinly-veiled attempt to discourage abortions (since there will be additional costs if the procedure goes wrong). If the doctor, that's potentially reasonable, given that it was the doctor's failure to perform the procedure correctly that resulted in the need for care, but that's going to discourage doctors from offering abortions because of the potential costs. If the government, then that shouldn't affect abortions' availability, but the notion of a republican US government offering to pay for abortion-related health care seems somewhat less than plausible. I is smart posted... Not complaining about the order but... kind of an odd thing to issue an order for out of nowhere like this considering everything else that's going on right now. It's an election thing. This is the sort of thing that pro-lifers will eat right up, so tossing it out there is easy brownie points from that crowd. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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