The Unborn Child Support Act would amend the Social Security Act to require child support payments within “the first month in which the child was conceived.”
Dangerous myths about fetal personhood and the law have contributed towas decided in 1973—legislation like the Unborn Child Support Act, even just insidious “pro-women” language like Hyde-Smith’s, are part of the problem.
Hyde-Smith claims the Unborn Child Support Act is about helping “mothers” get the support they need. But as National Advocates for Pregnant Women’s Dana Sussman has previously told me, fetal personhood actuallypregnant people: “If their rights are secondary to the fetus or at odds with the fetus, that lends to an environment in which violence—whether it’s state violence like imprisonment or interpersonal violence—can be committed against pregnant people with far less accountability.
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