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To: GovernmentShrinker
The problem with this is that we were made to reproduce and we can't if governments and societies allow this.

Also, you will have to take into account the extra financial ramifications in running a business, life insurance and government now with extra spousal increases in health insurance, benefits, survivor benefits with life insurance and with survivor benefits with Social Security.
5 posted on 01/15/2003 9:43:24 AM PST by Coleus (RU 486 Kills Babies)
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To: Coleus
Huh? People won't be able to reproduce if government doesn't regulate and register marriages? What planet are you on? Child support, custody, and inheritance decisions have been based on genetic parentage, not parents' marital status, for many decades now. Ironically, the ONLY exception has been where a man who is married (or in some states, if the court finds a "common-law" marriage) is forced to pay child support for a child that isn't genetically his, but rather was the result of the wife having an affair.

And all those "extra financial ramifications" you list are just the result of more unconstitutional government meddling. Why should any employer be required to pay any of its employees anything other than money as compensation for their work? Let people buy their own benefits. And if an employer chooses to provide medical insurance or other benefits, the terms should be entirely up to the employer. Survivor benefits on many life insurance policies can go to whoever the insured designates, and all policies should be like that. Same with social security -- as it stands now, the government confiscates your money and then decrees that when you die, survivor benefits have to go to your spouse, even if s/he took of years ago and shacked up with someone else and resisted divorce proceedings with threats of retaliation. You might prefer that your survivor benefits go to your hard-working adult child or nephew, who's struggling to find a new job in tough economic times or needing financial help so that one parent can stay home iwth a young child. But tough luck, the government knows best what should be done with your money.

You sound like you've been living on the nanny state's leash for so long, that you can't imagine being set free.
10 posted on 01/15/2003 10:23:03 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Coleus
The problem with this is that we were made to reproduce and we can't if governments and societies allow this.

Once this and cloning is legal can pretty much get rid of all of the straight people.....LOL

All kidding aside though I agree that the proper way to reproduce would/could be eliminated. As long as people are willing to have babies for other couples though there will always be a way to reproduce even without cloning.

25 posted on 01/15/2003 2:49:03 PM PST by Mixer
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To: Coleus
Not to mention the cultural, moral chaos that will ensure if we teach the next generation that marriage has no meaning.
42 posted on 09/30/2003 9:50:01 AM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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