Tennessee GOP bill says children born through artificial insemination are not 'legitimate'
Source: RawStory
DAVID EDWARDS
12 FEB 2017 AT 09:28 ET
A bill filed by a Tennessee Republican aims to make children born through artificial insemination illegitimate.
WMC reported that state House Representative Terry Lynn Weaver is sponsoring HB 1406 to repeal Tennessee current statute, TCA 68-3-306, which declares that children born through artificial insemination are the legitimate child of the mothers husband.
The text of the new bill says it immediately repeals statute that deems a child born to a married woman as a result of artificial insemination, with consent of the married womans husband, to be the legitimate child of the husband and wife.
Last year, Weaver was one of 53 GOP lawmakers who got involved in a same-sex marriage divorce that dealt with the custody of a child born through artificial insemination. Weaver and the other lawmakers asserted that the lesbian wife of the childs mother should not be considered a legitimate parent under the current statute.
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DetlefK
(16,423 posts)... but not when it comes to HOW the woman got pregnant?
nycbos
(6,037 posts)democrank
(11,103 posts)What kind of person thinks like this?
packman
(16,296 posts)Sanctity of marriage, pure birth, God's working thru faith, etc. , etc. The only "legitimate" child in her warped mind and those type of people are those born out of a Christian certified marriage.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)is what her website says
lark
(23,155 posts)disgusting scum of the earth is what so many R;s are these days. They really hate women, unions, working poor, brown skinned folks, anyone who isn't a rich straight white male is suspect and to be hindered every freaking way possible.
3catwoman3
(24,039 posts)...mean-spiritedness.
I just don't.
gordianot
(15,243 posts)dalton99a
(81,570 posts)still_one
(92,382 posts)coco22
(1,258 posts)Helping the AMERICAN PEOPLE they waste time and tax payers dollars on nonsense like this.
madaboutharry
(40,219 posts)These "so-called" Christians are fanatical sick people.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Coventina
(27,172 posts)tenderfoot
(8,438 posts)mpcamb
(2,875 posts)dreamland
(964 posts)That means that a husband of a divorce couple can have as an excuse for getting out of alimony and child support because "legally", he is not the father?! Can they come up with more shit, in their brainless world?
LisaL
(44,974 posts)he can claim he isn't the legal father and get out of child support. And there could be all kind of infertility issues where the actual husband's sperm is used for artificial insemination. But yet apparently he won't be considered a legal father (unless this bill is making exceptions for that situation?).
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)LakeArenal
(28,845 posts)So they might feel the pain of it and their seed die out from this world.
BigDemVoter
(4,156 posts)Grins
(7,228 posts)From the same people who demand "rights" for the "unborn"!!
Nitram
(22,873 posts)SDJay
(1,089 posts)so our daughter is a product of IVF. We also just found out that we may have twins on the way via the same approach. We spent years in pain, hundreds of thousands (yes, literally) of dollars and suffered in ways that cannot be quantified for our child and, hopefully soon, our two other children. (Just coming to the end of the first trimester with a surrogate, so we're not out of the woods yet.) We had eight miscarriages, one which was so bad my wife's life was at risk. Parents who go through this, and I'm obviously biased, deserve our praise and support. Not our disdain and scorn.
I guess in the eyes of the American Taliban, they are all illegitimate human beings. Fuck these people. Fuck all that they say and what they claim to stand for.
JCMach1
(27,572 posts)LeftInTX
(25,546 posts)in the race to the bottom
Bengus81
(6,932 posts)are all from here in Kansas. Wow...WRONG!
Coventina
(27,172 posts)I hate these evil fuckers.
demigoddess
(6,644 posts)to hear such a thing. Shame on the idiot republicans.
Renew Deal
(81,871 posts)Only such a person would do a thing like this. It is beyond cruel.