Posted on 04/24/2009 9:47:42 AM PDT by Feldkurat_Katz
In marked contrast to Spain, Germany has decided to tighten the rules on genetic screening of embryos. Measures to be accepted by parliament tomorrow will affect screening in three main areas:
Firstly, doctors will be allowed to test for Down’s Syndrome, but not for diseases like cancer which the baby may be pre-disposed to suffer in later life.
Secondly, paternity tests will only be carried out with the express permission of the baby’s mother.
Finally, employers and insurance companies are to be banned from demanding genetic checks on workers or clients. This is a sensitive issue in Germany after recent scandals involving companies accused of spying on their workers.
American feminists would love such law.
It doesn’t say that they can’t do paternity tests after a baby is born. I would be P*SSED if some jerk was able to get them to stick a needle into my belly (increasing risk of miscarriage) because he had doubts. Wait a few months.
So?
You'd think it would especially be a sensitive issue in Germany considering their past history.
There needs to be a corollary that there is no liability to support a child whose paternity is not proved. If the mother refuses the test, the father is immune until his paternity is conclusively proved.
But they claim it won't happen here.
Excellent idea. But it will never happen. Not there. Not here.
To do so would put the full responsibility for welfare payments on the government. They want to be able to recoup their vote-buying investment, by collecting so-called "child support" from some random man. Plus, they get a piece of the action, to fund their collection bureaucracy, staffed by unionized government employees.
So the scam must go on. A woman can play sperm-roulette, and sleep with a dozen guys, then when she gets pregnant, she can just pick the guy with the highest-paying job, and turn him into an ATM. She doesn't even have to prove that she actually slept with him. As long as the Left is in power, sensible suggestions like yours are non-starters.
It's that kind of hopeless corruption that inspires murder/suicides to escape the tyranny.
About 10% of people are not the child of the man who mommy said was the daddy.
Geneticists figured this out awhile ago as they would track down a trait through a family tree, about 10% of people were not the child of the man they called dad.
Paternity tests show about 30% of those that go in to test paternity are not the fathers. This is due to self selection bias. You usually don’t go in to test paternity unless you suspect there might be a problem. Yet of those that go in to test paternity, around 70% find out that they are indeed the dad.
The new “over the counter” paternity tests sold in drug stores must be making quite a few women nervous! ;)
I’m suprised more men in that case don’t lie downwards( i.e. say you’re a med student instead of a doctor).
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