RIGHT TO LIFE MAINTENANCE FUND
by Peter Moss

I am responding to Dr. Katharine Hikel's uterine law and uterinepolitics articles (Vermont Woman, Dec.2003).

My view of the problem: right-to-life is a cultured political, emotional, judiciary, moral, and religious issue to recruit and retain conservatives in the Republican Party. For destitute pregnant females who desperately need it and seek it, abortion is a financial, medical and survival issue, and a real issue, not a cultured issue for ulterior, cynical and hypocritical political use. Economic problems are best addressed by economic solutions.

My solution, if elected: a right to life child maintenance fund to pay for raising unwanted children from unwanted pregnancies. The fund would tax listed right-to-lifers from the various anti- abortion organizations using their membership lists, donor lists, and mailing lists.

• Any pregnant woman could file a short affidavit form in family court, to qualify for maintenance of unwanted children born because of abortion foes.

• Any person who is not, or is no longer, an abortion foe, could file an affidavit in family court renouncing his/her belief in right-to-life and therefore he/she should be removed from the list of abortion foes to be taxed for maintenance of unwanted children.

IT'S THE ECONOMICS, STUPID! My proposal would not only eliminate abortion as a conservative political organizing tool. It would also provide timely, safe and free abortion on demand, help indigent women and their unwanted children, and clean the slate for real issues that are not solved now because of conservatives and their cultured issues: oil wars, poverty, unemployment, homelessness, globalization, privatization, wealth redistribution to the rich, and ventriloquist Karl Rove, the main source of these problems.