Measure allows parent to seek child support up to a year after giving birth to retroactively cover pregnancy expenses

The Republican-led Kentucky senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to grant the right to collect child support for fetuses, advancing a bill that garnered bipartisan support despite nationwide fallout from a controversial Alabama decision also advancing “fetal personhood”.

The measure would allow a parent to seek child support up to a year after giving birth to retroactively cover pregnancy expenses. The legislation – Senate Bill 110 – won senate passage on a 36-2 vote with little discussion to advance to the House. Republicans have supermajorities in both chambers.

  • BaronOfHair@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Men’s Rights Activists(Whom I have many overlapping areas of agreement with)will revel in this news, just as Greens creemed their underroos over news of The Yangtze River Dolphins extinction… Such stories “prove” an activist’s gloom and doom worldview, without ever raising the question “How do we accumulate the public support necessary to gain the sort of political power that would prevent such things from occurring?”