Tennessee GOP bill says children born through artificial insemination are not 'legitimate'

[DonViejo]

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 mother’s 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 woman’s 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 child’s mother should not be considered a “legitimate” parent under the current statute.

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[DetlefK]

1. So... all fetuses count as legitimate children when it's about abortion...

... but not when it comes to HOW the woman got pregnant?

[nycbos]

2. No one said these people are logical.

[democrank]

3. Republican Representative Terry Lynn Weaver should hang her head in shame.

What kind of person thinks like this?

[packman]

6. I would bet a penny that this Rep. is a deep, soul "Christian"

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]

9. "Singing gospel music all over this nation for 27 years"

is what her website says

[lark]

12. Even if it includes spousal rape,

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]

4. I don't understand such...

...mean-spiritedness.

I just don't.

[gordianot]

5. Amazing people take time to think this sort of thing up.

[dalton99a]

7. A real Christian conservative. A vile and despicable POS.

[still_one]

8. These assholes really are sick.

[coco22]

25. This is what they call.

Helping the AMERICAN PEOPLE they waste time and tax payers dollars on nonsense like this.

[madaboutharry]

10. She is an example of the American Taliban.

These "so-called" Christians are fanatical sick people.

[sarcasmo]

26. Christian Taliban

[Coventina]

28. Taliborn-agains.

[tenderfoot]

11. Here's her facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/terri.l.weaver.31?fref=ts

[mpcamb]

13. Sometimes I think the Tennessee Legislature is descended from monkeys

[dreamland]

14. So divorced becomes less complicated

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]

15. Sounds like the husband can even be the actual biological father (if husband's sperm is used), but

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]

16. They want to make trouble for women any way they can. . . . nt

[LakeArenal]

17. May infertility become the fate of their children and grandchildren

So they might feel the pain of it and their seed die out from this world.

[BigDemVoter]

18. So. . . They're "alternative" children?

[Grins]

19. From the same people who demand "rights" for the "unborn"!!

From the same people who demand "rights" for the "unborn"!!

[Nitram]

20. Ah, the shallow end of the gene pool speaks.

[SDJay]

21. My Wife Can't Carry To Term

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]

22. We are just nine senators short of living in the world of the Handmaid's Tale

[LeftInTX]

23. Keep it uo Tennessee, you might beat Texas

in the race to the bottom

[Bengus81]

24. I thought all the NUT JOB Republicans who come up with shit like this....

are all from here in Kansas. Wow...WRONG!

[Coventina]

27. Yes! Let's stigmatize children!!!! THAT'S SO CHRISTIAN!!!

I hate these evil fuckers.

[demigoddess]

29. Jesus wept.

to hear such a thing. Shame on the idiot republicans.

[Renew Deal]

30. Terri Lynn Weaver is consumed by hate

Only such a person would do a thing like this. It is beyond cruel.

[YOHABLO]

31. What the F is wrong with these people? I mean really?

[MBS]

32. " " " " n/t