Re: Careful, now

[identity profile] ruggrat.livejournal.com 2008-02-04 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
The human costs are trouble, because it's *so* dependant on situation.

I'm pretty sure you can find agencies who will basically "buy" your pregnancy, that is, the agency charges $50,000 or so to the adoptive couple, who foot the bill for pre-natal care, birth services and what-not. Of course, then you're just a baby-gestating machine, and heaven forbid you develop some kind of fondness for the spawn in your gut, you're left either facing a crushing separation or financial ruin which will prevent you from giving the child a health life.

Oh, and I forgot the most common option- go without any form of prenatal or birth care, have the baby in a public restroom and drop it off in the nearest fire station, hospital or dumpster. There's worse things you can do to that "product of conception" than abortion at 8 weeks, like throwing it out a 4th story window, or leaving it in the rain to starve or freeze after a proper gestation...

Re: Careful, now

[identity profile] ruggrat.livejournal.com 2008-02-04 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
hm, somehow that title got dragged down from a previous comment...