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1 iceweasel  Mon, Feb 21, 2011 8:50:02am

What a fantastic idea. There’s no way at all that this could end badly. /

2 iceweasel  Mon, Feb 21, 2011 8:51:42am

Reminder: Wichita, former site of Dr Tiller’s clinic; head office of op rescue until he was killed.

3 nines09  Mon, Feb 21, 2011 9:32:03am

It’s TRASH TV TIME!
“Live from Kansas……It’s the Whoooooossssssseeeee Da Daddy! Today we have filling in as guest inquisitor renowned TEEBEE personality Maury Pouvich! Now your host……State Rep. Melody McCray Milleeeerrrrrrrrr!!!!!”
(applause)
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4 aagcobb  Mon, Feb 21, 2011 10:47:38am

Dumb idea in the case of married couples. Now what I would do is require a paternity test for unmarried couples before putting the man’s name on the birth certificate. Because it sucks when a guy demands a paternity test ten years down the road when he’s on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid child support, and then everyone finds out he’s not the father.

5 calochortus  Mon, Feb 21, 2011 12:32:21pm

Don’t most or all states require the man named by an unmarried mother to agree that he is in fact, the father of the baby? That would make this all entirely unnecessary for the unwed. If the mother refuses to name a father is Kansas going to use tax dollars to test the DNA of every man in the state? What if the father is from out of state?
In the case of married couples there is a presumption in the vast majority of states that the husband is the father regardless of actual paternity. That could lead to some interesting discussions, but I don’t think it will improve anyone’s life.

Unless this is a response to another wacky bill, it looks like a real argument for getting rid of self-rule in Kansas. They’re all nuts.

6 Fozzie Bear  Mon, Feb 21, 2011 1:06:27pm

Any man named as the father of a child, in every single state in the union, has the right to contest paternity and demand a paternity test before being forced to pay child support.

Every. Single. State.

This is just more misogynistic bullshit foisted on us by assholes who apparently don’t have wives, mothers, sisters, or daughters about whom they give a shit.

7 Kruk  Mon, Feb 21, 2011 1:39:21pm

Wouldn’t a mandatory test (with no medical justification, reasonable suspicion of illegal activity *or* parental consent) violate the 4th Amendment?

8 Fozzie Bear  Mon, Feb 21, 2011 1:44:43pm

re: #7 Kruk

Wouldn’t a mandatory test (with no medical justification, reasonable suspicion of illegal activity *or* parental consent) violate the 4th Amendment?

It’s several different flavors of unconstitutional. It would be overturned immediately, I imagine.

9 Querent  Mon, Feb 21, 2011 2:35:14pm

The moral Derpitude is strong with these ones…

10 calochortus  Mon, Feb 21, 2011 4:10:46pm

McCray-Miller’s explanation:

McCray-Miller described the bill as constituent-driven.

Several women have expressed concerns about male family members named by mothers on the birth certificate as the father.

Also, McCray-Miller said, she has heard about young men, not married to the expectant mother, who want to know the paternity of the baby but are reluctant to ask the woman to have the child tested.

To make all things equal, the test would be made “a part of everyday life,” McCray-Miller said.

Ya know, I told my kids when they were in their early teens that if they couldn’t talk about what they were doing with the person they were doing it with, they probably ought not be doing it.

If these guys are potentially making babies with women they don’t trust and with whom they don’t feel comfortable discussing who else might be the dad, maybe they should reconsider their actions. Or use birth control themselves…

11 lostlakehiker  Mon, Feb 21, 2011 10:05:29pm

Happily, for once, it’s a dumb idea out of Kansas and it’s not championed by a Republican. Pigs are flying.


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