Via my weekly legislative updates from the Tennessee Women’s Political Caucus, (Senator Tate) SB3717HB2964 (Rep. Hardaway) has been placed on the House subcommittee calendar Public Health and Family Assistance of Health and Human Resources for Wednesday Feb. 20, 2008.
Basically, this bill provides that each child born in the state of Tennessee will be tested for paternity before the father’s name can be placed on the birth certificate. The state will take up the cost of paternity testing when parent’s are unable to afford the test. Oh, and married couples are not excluded, making the overt presumption that women are “unfaithful.”
If your husband died in Iraq, Afghanistan, or was killed in anyway after conception but before birth, too damn bad. Your child would be a bastard, should this be enacted, simply because the father is no longer available for that mandatory paternity test. Your word that you have not had sex with anyone else is not enough. Thus, your bastard would NOT be entitled to your now dead husband’s Social Security benefits.
How the hell this measure got this far is beyond me. Well, I shouldn’t say that, since too many not-so-bright-stars, that are so absolutely anti-woman, seem to get elected to the state legislature over and over here.
Contact your legislators. Let them know just how heinous this measure is. A woman’s assertion of who her child’s father is, can be trusted.
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The government needs to stay the hell out of every bodies business. Tennessee seems to be trying harder than any other state at controlling the lives of it’s citizens This is a very ignorant law and it is going to destroy families!
So is there someone connected to Rep. Hardaway that has an interest in a testing business?
[...] place at the side of every post-partum bed in the state. Or it will if SB3717HB2964 goes through. According to the Archcrone: Basically, this bill provides that each child born in the state of Tennessee will be tested for [...]
[...] The Archcrone is very upset about a bill being run up at the State Capitol that would take away a woman’s right to choose the father of her baby: Basically, this bill provides that each child born in the state of Tennessee will be tested for paternity before the father’s name can be placed on the birth certificate. The state will take up the cost of paternity testing when parent’s are unable to afford the test. Oh, and married couples are not excluded, making the overt presumption that women are “unfaithful.” [...]
[...] Over at the Crone’s, she makes this point: If your husband died in Iraq, Afghanistan, or was killed in anyway after conception but before birth, too damn bad. Your child would be a bastard, should this be enacted, simply because the father is no longer available for that mandatory paternity test. Your word that you have not had sex with anyone else is not enough. Thus, your bastard would NOT be entitled to your now dead husband’s Social Security benefits. [...]
Perhaps it has more to do with NON biological “fathers” being hit with 18 years of child support. There are lots and lots of men in this unfortunate position.
Maybe the Tennessee legislature should just declare women property and be done with it already.
No, Lynn, it does not. Being a “father” is not limited to one’s DNA, simply put.
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Well from what I understood on the news, the cost would be footed by taxpayers. I don’t know who came up with this one, but I sure as hell don’t want taxes going to that when my parents can barely afford to pay for my college education.
Yes, Alyssa, the taxpayers would foot the bill when parents can’t pay the extra $400+ dollars for the paternity test.
I had never mentioned that this bill was deferred. It is on the calendar for March 5th.
The Bill is needed to protect men from being duped into fatherhood. A man who is not the dna father who consents to be the father anyway is not included in that group. Paternity fraud is all too common.
Yeah, I know, the whole “father’s rights” stuff that treats women as sluts and liars. Some “right.”
Here’s a novel concept — if you don’t want to be a father, then keep your pecker in your pants and if you can’t do that, then use a condom.
In the process of this bill should it pass on Wed. the kids get the royal screwing. Tough shit if you’ve have a close bond with the child for however many years. They all of a sudden aren’t worthy of your love and support.