[pogo101]

I agree. My initial post said that what most civilized countries do is accord the baby the same status as the mother-at-the-time-of-birth. And that in such a country, we wouldn’t have this problem, etc.

You somehow seem to have skipped over that part of my very short comment.

[La Lydia]

I agree that that we are among the uncivilized countries. We are in some very Third World, dubious company here, and we are paying for it. The others who grant birthright citizenship are:

Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Barbados Belize Bolivia Brazil Canada Chile (children of transient foreigners or of foreign diplomats on assignment in Chile only upon request) Colombia Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Fiji Grenada Guatemala Guyana Honduras Jamaica Lesotho Malaysia Mexico Nicaragua Pakistan Panama Paraguay Peru Saint Christopher and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago United States Uruguay and Venezuela.