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Mary Barber's avatar

We must all work hard to save and protect America from these radicals. It begins with the local races and involvement there.

And, yes, before someone asks as they did he last time I made a similar comment, I am on my city council and running to Lee my seat.

Together we can overcome.

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Women are on the defensive with respect to their rights today. Those who would criminalize the rights they held until recently are tightening the net around them with these laws penalizing assistance in travel to places where their rights are still respected.

I wonder, why haven't women gone on the offensive surrounding the issue of an unwanted pregnancy. It takes two to tango, after all. Women make up slightly more than half of eligible voters in this country. Why don't they begin to hold their male intimate partners to equal obligation for conception under the law? Why can't a woman who becomes pregnant immediately name the putative biologic father, and compel that individual to submit a buccal swab that will definitively establish him as such or rule him out by whatever technology can first obtain fetal DNA, or at birth, whichever comes first. Then, why are biologic fathers not then offered a choice; sign a mandatory promissory note dedicated to infant/toddler/child care expenses for 18 years regardless of marital status, or as an alternative to that note, submit to compulsory vasectomy. Why not make it illegal for males to conceive children outside of a marital contract or the equivalent, on penalty of 18 years parole with an ankle bracelet and wage garnishment, mandatory military service for a nice long enlistment or an equivalent obligation that will fully fund that child's care and education to age 25 or so. If the penalty for an unwanted pregnancy is at least as harsh for males as it is for females in this age of genetic certainty (there was never any doubt about biologic maternity), then we'd see a very different attitude towards women and their right to autonomy over their reproductive potential.

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