Measure allows parent to seek child support up to a year after giving birth to retroactively cover pregnancy expenses

The Republican-led Kentucky senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to grant the right to collect child support for fetuses, advancing a bill that garnered bipartisan support despite nationwide fallout from a controversial Alabama decision also advancing “fetal personhood”.

The measure would allow a parent to seek child support up to a year after giving birth to retroactively cover pregnancy expenses. The legislation – Senate Bill 110 – won senate passage on a 36-2 vote with little discussion to advance to the House. Republicans have supermajorities in both chambers.

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    7 months ago

    There are still people, that want to have kids at some point.

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      7 months ago

      Imagine the gall to look around at this world and be so blinded by, I don’t know, narcissism, self-centeredness, hubris and think,“Yeah, what we need here is another fucking human.”

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        7 months ago

        Wow, I can u derstand some people might not want kids, but self-centeredness? It’s self- e entered to devote so much of your ti e and attention to someone else’s needs, for two decades of your life?

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          You’re not having a kid for the kid’s sake. You’re having to kid for your sake. Your self-centered sake. Not YOU, but like the general you.

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        7 months ago

        The world is better now than at any point previously in history (except maybe the 90s). The only reason things sound worse is that we have global news now.

        What point is there in trying to make a better future if none of us have kids? Who are we trying to fix climate change for, our geriatric asses?

        Kids are emblematic of hope for a better future – that society can build and create something that we won’t benefit from, but our descendants will. I’d go as far as to say they should be the mascot of leftism and progressives. Everything we do should be to give them a better world than we had. It’s all moot otherwise.