- Yes, child support should start at 6 weeks. The challenge is proving paternity that early. As early as you can prove paternity safely, go for it!
- The Constitution does specifically list birth as the time at which citizenship (not personhood) is established. It would be reasonable to say that the preborn child is a citizen of whatever country his or her mother is a citizen of at least until the child is born. That says nothing about the child’s personhood, because obviously you don’t have to be a citizen to be a person.
- If an insurance company wants to sell policies insuring preborn children, I could see that. But the purpose of life insurance is to replace the income of the person who died. Usually when you buy a life insurance policy for a child, the intent is that you are investing in that policy so the child can have it when they grow up. If you wanted to start that process at 6 weeks, that’s fine - but I would understand the company that says you can’t collect more than x amount before the child turns, say, 18. Perhaps before that point you would collect a lower amount that would help with funeral costs and final medical expenses.
To me, this is a free market issue - if a company wants to offer a policy like this, I see no reason why not! Granted, you would also be inviting investigators to look into your miscarriage whose job would be to prove you caused it so the company wouldn’t have to pay out. I thought we didn’t want women who miscarry to be interrogated?
There are real conversations to be had about what a society looks like when it values human life from conception, but rather than having that conversation y’all try to use it as a gotcha. It’s getting old.
Reblogging bc this is the first time I've seen a response to the stupid meme image
Link doesn't want to embed but ya, they're doing it
Montgomery, Ala.(WDNews) — The Alabama Senate has passed a bill that would allow child support payments to be retroactively applied to cover
Here's another one, and then below we get to see planned parenthood get mad about it when people step up and say yes you're right it should start at conception.
Personhood Laws Threaten Reproductive Health Care MEMO: The growing threat of “fetal personhood” measures
Top PP one's there is about a Kansas law but there's all kinds of other groups including PP I'm sure that get really upset that there's laws going into place that actually do what different people keep strawmanning with, such as child support starting at conception and being retroactively applied.
The whole thing I'm getting from the groups that were for this and now seem unhappy is, you weren't actually supposed to make these laws, now we can't hold this over your heads and there's also consequences we didn't think of.
Which maybe next time they'll think twice before spouting off then
Like so many pro-choice posts, OP is actually so pro-choice people can feel smug about owning pro-lifers, instead of making an actual argument.
>The whole thing I'm getting from the groups that were for this and now seem unhappy is, you weren't actually supposed to make these laws, now we can't hold this over your heads and there's also consequences we didn't think of.
Reminds me of how so many pro-choice people ignore - or don't even know - that many pro-life states actually do have exceptions for molestation and medical necessity.
