Child Support Is Bad Because It Encourages Abortions, GOP Lawmaker Says

Child Support Is Bad Because It Encourages Abortions, GOP Lawmaker Says

Sharon Zhang, reporting for Truthout:

Republican Del. Chris Pritt said on the floor of the legislature that, if a man gets a woman pregnant, he may encourage or force a woman to get an abortion because of the possibility that he would have to pay child support if the fetus were carried to term. Thus, Pritt argued, child support is inconsistent with an anti-abortion ideology.