I give a fuck about the rights of half of this country's population being stripped away by a court in a ruling that was based on false history.
i like the idea, but not how he has couched his pro life propaganda as part of it...they should reinstate RVW AND implement this act, nationwide...and AGGRESSIVELY chase down dead beats.Rubio proposes child support regulations beginning at conception
Senators Marco Rubio (R-Florida) and Kevin Cramer (R-North Dakota) introduced a bill Wednesday that would allow mothers to collect child support beginning at conception.
The bicameral bill would amend the Social Security Act “to ensure that child support for unborn children is collected and distributed under the child support enforcement program.”
Under the bill, mothers would be able to request child support from the month of conception onward, but would not be required to do so.
Mothers would also be able to choose whether to collect child support payments retroactively through the month of conception, including if paternity is only established after the birth of the child.
“Caring for the well-being of our children begins long before a baby is born. It begins at the first moment of life — conception — and fathers have obligations, financial and otherwise, during pregnancy,” Cramer said of the bill.
Eight Republican senators are cosponsoring the bill, including Sens. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.).
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) introduced partner legislation to the Unborn Child Support Act in the House.
“I hope good legislation, like the Unborn Child Support Act, gets more support now that the Dobbs decision encourages us to look more seriously at supporting mothers and their unborn children,” Hyde-Smith said in support of the bill.
The Unborn Child Support Act is one of multiple bills proposed by Republicans aiming to support mothers in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling, which overturned Roe v. Wade.
Rubio on Thursday introduced another bill, the Standing with Moms Act, as part of the “pro-life, pro-family framework” he rolled out after the Dobbs decision.
The framework includes proposals to expand the child tax credit, provide additional funding to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) and make the adoption tax credit fully refundable, among others.
Republicans are also responding to criticism from both the public and their Democratic colleagues accusing them of a lack of care for mothers and children after they have been born.
“Not only do they want to force women to have children if they are pregnant, but when they do have them, they don’t want to provide any support for them,” Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) told The Washington Post earlier this year.
Washington and Lee University Law School Professor Carliss Chatman posted a viral tweet in May, reading: “If a fetus is a person at 6 weeks pregnant, is that when the child support starts?…Just figuring if we’re going here we should go all in.”
Hollywood has also weighed in on the child support question after Roe’s demise.
“In States where abortion is illegal the father should be financially on the hook at the moment of conception,” actor Ken Olin tweeted days after Dobbs was handed down.
In a statement, Cramer referenced a Bucknell University Institute for Public Policy poll indicating that child support payments beginning at conception have some “popular support.”
The poll found that about half of respondents favored the payments beginning at conception, including 53 percent of Democrats, 47 percent of Republicans and 40 percent of independents.
Rubio proposes child support regulations beginning at conception
Senators Marco Rubio (R-Florida) and Kevin Cramer (R-North Dakota) introduced a bill Wednesday that would allow mothers to collect child support beginning at conception. The bicameral bill would am…thehill.com
the border? where all the people looking for work that Americans won't do are?
It’s really weird but I’ve lost about 20,000 in the last 3 months in my RRSP’s value and I still give a fuck about kids, and also about a country being invaded and people dying. But yup I’m sure gas prices and the border can be worrisome as well ……………
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It's pretty gross. There isn't a whole lot else to say about it.There's a deplorable ideology holding the Trump base together
This week the nation bore witness to an especially shameful episode for Republicans, even by the right's rock-bottom standards. Right-wing media came together to respond to the story of a 10-year-old rape victim by denying her existence and calling those who provided medical care liars. What was...
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the answer to that is real easy...question during the interview "do you have any problems selling people contraceptives?"#BoycottWalgreens trends after people say they were denied birth control pills, condoms
#BoycottWalgreens trended on Twitter after users shared stories of being denied birth control and condoms by pharmacists with a “moral objection” to their use.
Abigail Martin, a TikTok creator with almost 900,000 followers, said in a video uploaded on her page earlier this month that a pharmacist told her they will not refill her birth control prescription and she needs to call her medical provider.
She said her doctor’s office told her that she had four refills left, and they do not know why the pharmacy would not refill the prescription.
Martin said she then received two texts from Walgreens about her prescription — the first saying that it was delayed and another saying that it was out of stock.
Martin said she had run out of pills in the time that passed.
Walgreens said in a tweet in 2018 in response to a question from a user that the company allows pharmacists to “step away” from filing a prescription if they morally object to it, but they should refer the prescription to another pharmacist or manager to meet a patient’s needs in a “timely manner.”
She said she called Walgreens, and another pharmacist told her she could refill her prescription. The pharmacist added that the pharmacy had been having issues with women being refused birth control in the past two weeks.
“First they want us to stop getting pregnant and having abortions, and then they don’t want to help us prevent that pregnancy,” Martin said.
Her video has almost 4 million views as of Tuesday.
The outcry on Twitter comes in the aftermath of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion. More than a dozen states have moved to ban or severely restrict abortion access following the the high court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Some activists and lawmakers have also expressed concerns that the overturning of Roe could open the floodgates for other landmark cases to be overturned, like Griswold v. Connecticut, which protects access to birth control.
Fraser Engerman, the senior director of external relations for Walgreens, told The Hill that these types of incidents are uncommon, and the company works to meet the needs of its customers while respecting staff members’ beliefs.
“Instances like this are very rare and our policies are designed to ensure we meet the needs of our patients and customers while respecting the religious and moral beliefs of our team members,” Engerman said. “We require the employee to refer the transaction to another employee or manager on duty who will complete the customer’s transaction.”
One Twitter user said on Sunday that her coworker relies on the birth control pill for health issues, but Walgreens declined her refill.
In addition to preventing unwanted pregnancy, the pill can also have positive effects for health conditions like iron deficiency, infections and some endometrial and ovarian cancers, according to Planned Parenthood.
Another Twitter user named Nate Pentz said a cashier at Walgreens told his wife, Jess, that he would not sell her condoms because of his faith. The cashier offered to bring a manager over.
Jess filed a complaint with Walgreens, saying the cashier embarrassed her in front of other customers for her personal choice.
#BoycottWalgreens trends after people say they were denied birth control pills, condoms
#BoycottWalgreens trended on Twitter after users shared stories of being denied birth control and condoms by pharmacists with a “moral objection” to their use. Abigail Martin, a TikTok creato…
it doesn't sound like they're all right to life...sounds like quite a lot of them are pretty pro choice. perhaps if they have a statewide vote about abortion, they would discover that maybe they're actually in the minority?...
By Texas standards, Austin is 1 part Haight-Ashbury and 2 parts Satan.
