Back in ye olde booju days on LJ, I used to find myself commenting on how many pixels were spent trying to make the fact that women did 95% of the work in creating a baby more fair to men, and I wish I could say this was the first time I'd seen something like an auto paternity test done at birth proposed. But those were hypotheticals being proposed for all births. This is a real pregnancy with a real woman and oh my GOD.
Carolyn does not bring up the rather large question of whether the LW should continue the pregnancy. I'm of mixed feelings of whether she should have or not. On the one hand, I get why she wouldn't: the complicated mix of personal and political might lead to everything else she said getting dismissed. But I do wish that we lived in a society where a woman asking herself if she wants to be tied to this man for at least 18 years was an askable question.
As in ye olde booju days, my answer would have been simple: you can have that paternity test as part of the divorce process.
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Carolyn does not bring up the rather large question of whether the LW should continue the pregnancy. I'm of mixed feelings of whether she should have or not. On the one hand, I get why she wouldn't: the complicated mix of personal and political might lead to everything else she said getting dismissed. But I do wish that we lived in a society where a woman asking herself if she wants to be tied to this man for at least 18 years was an askable question.
As in ye olde booju days, my answer would have been simple: you can have that paternity test as part of the divorce process.