You don’t inherit from the fetus, the fetus is the one getting the inheritance. Which makes sense, since she is related to the person who died. This might cause problems once someone makes a kid with frozen sperm of a dead person.
Think of this situation.
1) Dad dies.
2) Fetus inherits.
3) Mom gets an abortion.
4) Does Mom inherit? And if so, did we just give her a huge financial incentive to kill her kid?
Well, she certainly has a financial incentive to terminate her pregnancy in that scenario. She also has a financial incentive to murder her co-parent. (Still more so if Mom can inherit directly from Dad.) Also, given the costs of bearing and raising a child, I’d expect that most pregnant women have a financial incentive to terminate their pregnancies.
But killing Dad is murder, and you go to jail for that. Killing Baby is an outpatient procedure. with no legal sanction(and, in many places, outright subsidization). I’d say that the situations differ.
The situations differ in several ways, including their legal status.
You were discussing financial incentives, and I responded accordingly.
If your actual intention is to discuss more generally the similarities and differences between killing fetuses and adults (or babies and adults, if you prefer that language), then I’ll drop out here.
No, a generic debate about abortion is the last thing I want to partake in. It makes everybody stupid, and I suspect that I’m on the same side as most people here anyways. I just find this particular situation interesting, and that seemed like convenient shorthand.
Yes, that is what I was aiming at. If it is the rational choice to end a pregnancy, than it is good for us that not everyone in the past did so. I am aware that the OP wrote about the financial incentive, not about the most rational choice.
I’m speaking of a peculiar situation, not of a generic pregnancy. Still, I suppose that as “financial reasons to have an abortion” go, the fact that not having one obliges you to raise a kid does seem like it ought to weigh highly...
You don’t inherit from the fetus, the fetus is the one getting the inheritance. Which makes sense, since she is related to the person who died. This might cause problems once someone makes a kid with frozen sperm of a dead person.
Think of this situation. 1) Dad dies. 2) Fetus inherits. 3) Mom gets an abortion. 4) Does Mom inherit? And if so, did we just give her a huge financial incentive to kill her kid?
Well, she certainly has a financial incentive to terminate her pregnancy in that scenario. She also has a financial incentive to murder her co-parent. (Still more so if Mom can inherit directly from Dad.) Also, given the costs of bearing and raising a child, I’d expect that most pregnant women have a financial incentive to terminate their pregnancies.
But killing Dad is murder, and you go to jail for that. Killing Baby is an outpatient procedure. with no legal sanction(and, in many places, outright subsidization). I’d say that the situations differ.
The situations differ in several ways, including their legal status.
You were discussing financial incentives, and I responded accordingly.
If your actual intention is to discuss more generally the similarities and differences between killing fetuses and adults (or babies and adults, if you prefer that language), then I’ll drop out here.
No, a generic debate about abortion is the last thing I want to partake in. It makes everybody stupid, and I suspect that I’m on the same side as most people here anyways. I just find this particular situation interesting, and that seemed like convenient shorthand.
Good for us that few people are mother economicae.
I do not know what that phrase means.
I think it’s a riff on “homo economicus”—i.e., the theory that humans are rational economic actors.
Yes, that is what I was aiming at. If it is the rational choice to end a pregnancy, than it is good for us that not everyone in the past did so. I am aware that the OP wrote about the financial incentive, not about the most rational choice.
I’m speaking of a peculiar situation, not of a generic pregnancy. Still, I suppose that as “financial reasons to have an abortion” go, the fact that not having one obliges you to raise a kid does seem like it ought to weigh highly...