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5 hours agoFrench town offers 1,000 birth bonuses to save local clinic
Councillors late Thursday approved the plan to offer future mothers vouchers worth €1,000 to spend at local businesses if they agreed to bring their child into the world in the town, instead of travelling to a bigger hospital. "We're not paying women to have babies, we're giving money to women who are already pregnant and decide to give birth in Saint-Armand," right-wing mayor Emmanuel Riotte told AFP. He said mothers would have to come in for prenatal check-ups first.
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