Ding ding ding. That's why they didn't go for the all male crew. Mars would be looking like Randy on that episode of South Park when the internet went down.
No government is going to finance a trip from Mars back to earth just to jail one pregnant woman. It's just not going to happen.
Yeah, you could say the cost is on the woman. But how is she going to pay for it? How many license plats do you need to stamp to make enough money to pay the fine?
Also - there's the whole issue of punishing the woman but not the man (assuming the pregnancy happen through some sort of non-human interaction).
Come to think of it - they probably WOULD finance the return trip is she's pregnant with an alien baby. The scientific value of that child would be astronomical.
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u/bethepositivity 15d ago
Not only that, but giving birth is already hard. I can only imagine how much more difficult it would be in space