Wisdom, Justice and Motheration

Since the Christian state of Georgia ranks forty-third out of the fifty in looking after the health of actual children, the fact of its offering tax breaks for uterine-resident Murcans should come as no surprise. As proof that God helps those who help themselves, the state has balanced its pious prohibition on abortion beyond six weeks' gestation with a chance for fleshly incubators who carry their foetus past that point to claim the tail-toting tadpole as a "dependent minor" with corresponding deductions from the tax bill. Lest such interference with Nature be seen as creeping socialism and pandering to the workshy (there is a significant statistical correlation between being unemployed and being unborn), the deduction is worth less than $200 and has been funded by cutting programmes intended to benefit the merely extant.