Backhanded Extortion?

Submitted by Thomas on Sat, 2005-12-03 05:58

Just when you thought that the world couldn't get any loopier, this comes along.


Across much of the world, especially the developed world, women have gotten their wish to legally abort. Now that abortion is contributing to a catastrophic collapse of fertility rates, and resultant population aging and population collapse -- in Russia there are now more abortions than births and the country is losing nearly a million people a year, MPs in Italy are on the verge of paying women not to abort. (This isn't the first case of paying women to have children, but it's the first time I've seen it called what it often is -- paying women not to abort their children.)


As far as I know, it was zenpriest, who coined the term "prostimum". Interesting word.

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