• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    People are freaking out about the database thing but check out the zinger on the last 3 pages of the 23 page bill.

    It looks like this law would allow a woman to accuse any man of being the father of her unborn child, force immediate child support payments while she’s pregnant, and the accused man would not be able to question or confirm he is the father with a paternity test.

    ‘‘(35) provide that the State will establish and13 enforce child support obligations of the biological fa-14 ther of an unborn child (and subsequent to the birth15 of the child) to the mother of such child provided16 that—"

    (skipping unrelated sections A-D then comes section E)

    “‘(E) any measure to establish the pater-9 nity of a child (born or unborn) shall not be re-10 quired without the consent of the mother; and”

    source (PDF of the text of the bill)