1. Not very if you have heath insurance or an adopter lined up to pay your bills. Way too costly if you're alone and one of the working poor for whom insurance is a pipe dream and you have to pick and choose which bills to pay late based on how close each one is to the collections office. Maybe food stamps, WIC, welfare can help out here. 2. See 1. 3. If you want to hand the baby over to THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, or any number of private agencies, I think you can get a pretty decent amount of money to pay for care, assuming you are young, healthy, don't have any genetic disorders and are white. Also assuming that the baby turns out healthy, free of birth defects and white. Even if you did this, it's assuming that you can keep your job during pregnancy, (which, for me anyway, would not be an option-some of the chemicals I handle are mutagenic and teratogenic, so I'd be just as compassionate to have an abortion, rather than a stillbirth some months later...) or find a comparable job before you get visibly pregnant and people stop considering you once they lay eyes on you.
(I understand that Massachusetts is currently revolutionizing healthcare for the people who "chose" not to buy it before the mandate, but, we're just one state.)
Unless your unwanted child goes straight to a loving couple in the place of its birth, there are additional monetary costs. And we haven't begun to touch the human costs.
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...
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Purely talking about "cost" in terms of money,
Date: 2008-02-04 10:07 pm (UTC)2. See 1.
3. If you want to hand the baby over to THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, or any number of private agencies, I think you can get a pretty decent amount of money to pay for care, assuming you are young, healthy, don't have any genetic disorders and are white. Also assuming that the baby turns out healthy, free of birth defects and white. Even if you did this, it's assuming that you can keep your job during pregnancy, (which, for me anyway, would not be an option-some of the chemicals I handle are mutagenic and teratogenic, so I'd be just as compassionate to have an abortion, rather than a stillbirth some months later...) or find a comparable job before you get visibly pregnant and people stop considering you once they lay eyes on you.
Re: Purely talking about "cost" in terms of money,
Date: 2008-02-04 10:09 pm (UTC)Re: Purely talking about "cost" in terms of money,
Date: 2008-02-04 11:20 pm (UTC)Some times, compromise is death and one party in a debate is 100% correct.
re: 3
Date: 2008-02-04 10:11 pm (UTC)Re: Careful, now
Date: 2008-02-04 10:19 pm (UTC)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
Date: 2008-02-04 10:20 pm (UTC)