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Baltimike

(4,148 posts)
Tue May 3, 2022, 08:43 AM May 2022

If life starts at conception, so should child support.

If a minor male child impregnates a female, the parents of that minor male should be on the hook for all child support.

From conception.

But, mainly, even when Roe gets overturned, and we all commit ourselves to electing Democrats, I can't see how they can get around a private choose between a woman and her doctor.

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Lovie777

(12,487 posts)
2. I could be wrong . ..
Tue May 3, 2022, 08:49 AM
May 2022

but I have not read nor heard of any rules, laws, etc. concerning the "responsibility" of men who pregnant a women, i.e. child support, medical support, et al.

Meadowoak

(5,595 posts)
17. there won't be any. all the responsibility will fall on the woman.
Tue May 3, 2022, 11:36 AM
May 2022

besides, how can you even prove who the father is, until after birth?

boston bean

(36,229 posts)
4. I am sorry but we don't need more people involved wielding control
Tue May 3, 2022, 08:53 AM
May 2022

over women.

Make them have your baby and then they get to resent you and make your life miserable and control it for 18 years?

Thanks but no thanks.

Fla Dem

(23,954 posts)
15. It's well established RW government officials only care about "LIFE" while it's still in the womb.
Tue May 3, 2022, 11:17 AM
May 2022
Once born a child
- can live in poverty
- go hungry
- lack health care
- receive substandard education
- be shot by hand guns and automatic weapons
- be assassinated in their schools


But God forbid the government should step in and ensure that child thrives and lives up to their potential.

Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
16. No one celebrates the day they were conceived
Tue May 3, 2022, 11:36 AM
May 2022

How many times have you been asked when your conception day is? How many big conception day surprise parties have yo attended? No one celebrated My dad banged my mom day, but everyone celebrates their BIRTHdays.

It's not about children, babies, or pregnancies. It's about keeping women in line, and ultimately, out of the workforce.

The 1950s are as dead as the 1850s, and I refuse to go back.

mainer

(12,039 posts)
18. Garnish the father's wages for 18 years
Tue May 3, 2022, 11:44 AM
May 2022

Paternity is easy to prove with DNA.

If women are forced to give birth, the fathers should be forced to support the child until he's 18.

Algernon Moncrieff

(5,798 posts)
19. Democrats should be advancing legislation along this line NOW
Tue May 3, 2022, 11:54 AM
May 2022

DNA testing is cheap and scientifically reliable. Paternity can be proven beyond reasonable doubt.

If you are the father (or the parent of the father) you are on the hook for:

- 50% of all medical expenses incurred by the mother for the birth. Your being on the hook for half does not imply that you get any say in her choice of provider or the services provided. C-section, anesthesia, and NICU are all possibly contemplated here.

- State mandated child support as long as the law demands. Usually that is until the child is 18. However, if the child has a disability that leads to parental guardianship beyond 18, you remain on the hook past 18. None of this financial responsibility implies visitation or custody rights.

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