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Does the pro-choice movement realise that all the money used to subside abortions can be used to subsidize daycare and other financial support for single mothers with unplanned pregnancies?

07.06.2025 14:55

Does the pro-choice movement realise that all the money used to subside abortions can be used to subsidize daycare and other financial support for single mothers with unplanned pregnancies?

I donate money to Planned Parenthood. Let’s do some math. An early-stage pill abortion runs $600-$800. My sister pays $1300 a month for day care for her three year old; let’s round down to $1K to make math easier. A child is going to need to be in some form of daycare until it can be sent to public school, so, in a country where you are lucky to get three months of maternity leave, more than five years. So, to cover day care for just one child of a working mother is looking like $60K minimum. That does not account for diapers, clothes, breast pumps, food toys, a stroller, a crib, etc. Let’s assume she shops at Goodwill and Costco, and gets some hand me downs, and round out at $75K for the first five years only. Hmm. So, I could donate $750 and help a woman who, key point, does not WANT to bear that child, save $75K, just on those first five years. That’s a 100 fold return on investment. Sadly, I don’t have the finances to donate $75K instead. So I’ll keep donating to Planned Parenthood, because I know what it’s like to have two lines on a pregnancy test and need options.

instead of donating money to stop abortion, why don’t pro life activists donate to support mothers in need? Why didn’t they tell their congresspersons to support universal day care when Elizabeth Warren proposed that bill? That is my question.

I assume you mean donations to Planned Parenthood, as no federal funds can be used for voluntary abortions.

Why do some people have loving parents and some do not?