Sorry....your analogy still falls flat. If I'm the only one on the deserted highway, it's still my choice whether or not I help a vicitm. I may have a moral responsibility to help...but I do not have a legal responsibility to help. And when it comes to children, and paying out 500,000 dollars (what I would've paid...in my state...based on the last 18 years of my income) for a child that is not mine is ludicrous. It may the right thing to do morally...but certainly not legally.

When my wife gave birth to my children I had to give blood for tests to be run. There is no reason DNA testing could not be done as part of some routine testing, which no one would even know the results of unless it turns out baby and daddy don't match.

Finally to Asephe..I am surprised this topic is even covered in BS, but this response from TCF

"There are many different ideas for how to best address the issue -- from limiting paternity challenges to the first two years of the child's life to widespread DNA testing at birth (I picture Maury Povitch being wheeled from delivery room to delivery room: "You are not the father! You are the father!") -- but all are imperfect."

shows what a joke this blog is. No exploration of what many seem to be a simple solution. The feminist response to the simple solution ....apparently it is imperfect ! That's intellectual dishonesty.

"It is, in that context, perfectly reasonable for the law to compel cuckolded men to take responsibibelty for the children so born. Someone has to do it, and whether through fate or artifice, the men happened to be the most logical choice at the time. If it is later discovered that they were not biologically related to the child, that does nothing to change the fact that the child needs to eat, or wear clothes, or sleep indoors. By mere proximity to the issue, men are burdened with that responsibilty. It doesn't go away just because it becomes unpleasant."

I had to read this 3 times and am still recovering from the whiplash caused by this ignorance. There are two people responsible for every pregnancy.... science has made it simple to determine who those two responsible parties are. There is nothing reasonable about the statement above.

Mandatory DNA testing at birth. What is there to argue ? This should be a national requirement. It's inconvenient for women, that's about it. Love to see this publicly debated..... Father is scientifically determined at birth...and gets a short period to decide whether he will raise the child if he is not the bio-dad. End of story.

Never say never. With some very small modifications to her personal platform, she can easily pick off moderate voters. Hell, after the last year of reading the liberal feminist drivel here at this site, I'm almost ready to vote for her myself, and I have never voted for a repug pres. Your gonna see Palin firing up the base in 2010, and unless unemployment improves, repubs are gonna beat dems like a drum next Nov. Healthcare won't even matter. Then she spends the next year softening her image.....and presto, legitimate presidential candidate for 2012.

Joan...you need to hire a political analyst. It aint you.

Everybody gets a trophy !

Who had editorial control over the animated picture of Sarah Palin as a dominatrix published by....you guessed it Salon. This was included with a article with the headline "The dominatrix". Joan, your a phony.

It's gonna be fun to watch Sarah move left and start picking off moderates while the liberal feminists continue to paint themselves into a corner and jettison moderates. 2010 is going to be almost as fun politically as 2008 was.

Part of the Sarah Palin story is her looks. Just read through Salon's obsession with her and that is clear and consistent. So I guess it's sexist when Newsweek uses that theme to sell magazines ? While today's headline is Levi Johnston !?! in the sexiest man living contest brought to you by ....you guessed it...the salon staff. Stay classy Joan !

Liberal feminism is retreating to the shadows. Lacking intellectual appeal, it's credibility shot... combined with a list right of the rest of the country has made liberal feminism the left's version of the tea bag crowd. Hopefully Kate and Co will start a new party and Democrats can go back to generational majorities.

Sorry...but they're both exaggerations

Sounds like my neighbor who had to always beat her husband to the mailbox, and even recruited neighbors to help keep her credit cards.."secret".

How big a tool do you have to be to write a blog post about an article about a letter writer ?

Seinfeld episode #83

How is this ad any different than all the scare tactics liberal feminists use when manufacturing rape statistics ?

This post is just one of many that continues to prove that Salon does not have a writer that can address fatherhood at all. Animated fatherhood through a misandric gender lense doesnt cut it....sorry.

You might well ask why the choice on demand groups have been so ineffective legislatively. You could start with the fact they are out of step with the rest of the culture. Add to that, their voice is the women's studies crowd that lead everything with "men suck because....."

You don't have to be part of the Christian right to have morals. You don't have to be part of the Christian right to have morals. You don't.....

I agree that liberal feminists should start a new party and go back to their communist roots. For every liberal feminist vote Dems lose, they gain 2 more.

What is the single largest demographic of the electorate ? White woman. How do they historically vote on average ? Republican. So feminists should speak for "single white women"...or "single and minority women" they certainly don't speak for women.