CV NEWS FEED // A new South Carolina bill could provide compensation to women who carry their babies to term if they might otherwise have chosen abortion.
The South Carolina Pro Birth Accountability Act would require the state to provide monetary compensation to women who would have undergone an abortion if not for current state laws which prevent women from aborting their babies upon detection of fetal heartbeat.
Using mostly pro abortion language, the bill asserts that the current heartbeat laws “force a pregnant woman who, could have otherwise elected an abortion, to act as a gestational surrogate for the State of South Carolina, which cannot itself physically conceive or carry a child.”
The bill then argues that “in the surrogacy market, a woman’s uterus is not unlike rental property,” and since it is unlawful to “force a citizen to serve in any capacity without fair payment,” the state “may not constitutionally require a woman to incubate a child without appropriate compensation.”
The bill’s sponsor, Independent South Carolina state Sen. Mia McLeod, supports abortion, and endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in 2016.
Nevertheless, the bill, or a modified version of it, could be supported by Republicans since it covers the cost of pregnancy related expenses, in addition to costs associated with the child’s healthcare, dental, vision, etc.
The child would also be entitled to a fully-funded state college savings plan.
The mother is also permitted to claim the unborn baby as a child from the moment of heart-beat detection to receive child-related state and federal income tax credits or deductions.
The original intention of Sen. McLeod was not really to save babies, but to be facetious about abortion restrictions, which she opposes. After the restrictions were passed in the state, she sponsored a bill that would impose similar restrictions for access to Viagra and other drugs that treat erectile dysfunction.
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