boomerang wrote:Excuse me, LoneStarMadam, I thought we were having a conversation going back to your post regarding "if someone is old enough to have sex they are old enough to accept the consequences" because that is what gave rise to my question.
I thought that was clear but I suppose it wasn't.
I'm still waiting for an answer to this......
boomerang wrote:How about a situation like this....
What if, at 47, I found myself pregnant. Because of my age I had genetic testing done to determine the fetus' health and learned that it suffered from a serious birth defect.
My insurance company decides that I am no longer a good client and drops me like a hot potato.
While I have the resources to pay for raising a healthy child, I do not have the resources to pay for an uninsured seriously ill child.
What then O Mighty Moralists?
Sincerely, I think we'd all be better off if people thinking of having a child had to go through what adoptive parents go through --
Strict background checks
Health evaluations
Letters of reference
Home inspections and follow up visits
They should also have to post a $10.000 bond since "if you can't afford the attorney you can't afford to raise the kid".
Abstinence and contraception would be a lot more appealing to young people (and to a lot of adults) if they had to account for their lives.
Perhaps you weren't answered because your example is very unlikely.
In the first place, insurance companies don't drop a pregnant woman like a hot potato, as you put it, unless they want to become famous for all the wrong reasons. The pregnancy would have manifested itself prior to the company learning about it, and would therefore trigger all of the benefits due under the policy because the pregnancy had to have already occurred. I don't know where you live, but no health insurance carrier that I know of drops someone due to health reasons, especially a normal pregnancy.
Furthermore, a health insurance carrier assumes coverage on a baby, even one that has health problems near birth.
You're going to have to work harder than that to come up with some good reason why future parents would change their minds and abort the child.