Putting Your Money Where Your Values Are

This is a simple solution, so in contrast to my usual posts, this one will be much shorter.

It's dawned on me that I have a solution to the whole Right-To-Life/Pro-Choice issue. It's simple, effective, and takes care of the entire issue without passing any bans and only one law.

Here's how it would work: You're free to "protest" against abortions in any legal way, shape or form, but by doing so, your name goes on a list. This is just a list of people who think Abortions must stop and who have taken that extra step of going out an saying so to others in a very public manner. The list is available for people to volunteer to sign up for as well. You are on the list for a month after which, you can then request to be taken off the list, provided no one has been assigned to you and you have not engaged in any protest activities for a month. The most recent protesters go to the FRONT of the list.

When you get on the list, you are entering into a binding, legal status saying that you take all responsibility for the consequences of your intervention - financial, personal, professional. Your intervention is going to stop an abortion - period. No if's, ands or buts about it.

By being on this list, however, you agree to pay for all medical bills and expenses that are due to the pregnancy, delivery and postpartum period - including psychology bills, or damages, if necessary - for the woman who wanted the abortion. You then adopt the child, or arrange for the child to be adopted. Whoever adopts them must raise them and assume all parental responsibilities. If the woman needed the abortion to live, you are liable for her death and will pay all expenses and restitution to the family. If the child dies, you pay all funeral expenses.

For women who want an abortion, they have to check the list first. If someone is on the list, they are assigned to that woman and the woman must carry the child to term under medical supervision. If there's no one on the list, they can have the abortion.

This is a self-correcting issue. When the idiots who think Abortions shouldn't be allowed and want a law banning them are forced to get personally involved in the consequences of their demands, I suspect they'll begin to understand the gravity of the situation. There may always be a list, but as time goes on, I suspect fewer and fewer people will be on it. My guess is, if this arrangement became the law of the land, there would be no names on the list within a month and only a handful every month after that.

But those who had their name on the list and was assigned would be personally responsible for stopping an abortion.

It's easy to stand out and about and say "We want this to STOP!" when you don't have a personal stake in it. The right-wing is all about personal responsibility and less government. Well, guys, here's a way to put your money where your values are. If you want to assume the financial, legal and moral responsibility of stopping abortions, all the power to you and abortions will stop - assuming there is always a name on the list. But until that day happens when you take personal responsibility for the consequences of your demands, the law of the land is choice.