[Editor’s note: This story originally was published by Live Action News.]
By Cassy Fiano-Chesser
Live Action News
Lawmakers in Louisiana are considering a bill that would allow pregnant women to recover half of pregnancy costs from the father of the preborn child.
HB 5 was introduced by Rep. Larry Frieman, who said the matter is an issue of fairness. Frieman told the Daily Advertiser that while he did vote for Louisiana’s pro-life bills, those were not the only reason for introducing the legislation. “I think it enhances the necessity for a bill like this,” he said, adding that he was contacted by family law attorneys over the issue. “They told me a pregnant woman has no current mechanism to require the father to help. That’s just not fair.”
With HB 5, a paternity test would be performed, and it can be taken up to two years after the birth. The father would be required to pay 50% of out-of-pocket pregnancy-related costs. “The father should absolutely be responsible for those expenses,” Frieman said.
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Louisiana is one of several states in which preborn children are protected from abortion, and critics have complained that the state doesn’t do enough to support women and children. Lawmakers responded that their goal is to add legislation increasing that support, which Frieman said his bill is an example of. The average out-of-pocket cost for childbirth alone for women who have health insurance is, according to Forbes, nearly $3,000; for women without health insurance, the cost is even higher — over $18,000. That doesn’t include the cost of prenatal care.
Similar legislation was passed in Utah in 2021, and was highly praised by many, though Planned Parenthood complained that lawmakers should have been focusing on other things. Rep. Brady Brammer, who introduced the legislation, still argued that it was a way to support women. “You can support pregnant moms and new babies and it doesn’t have to be about abortion,” he told the BBC, adding that at the core of the abortion issue is “someone in a really tough position in life, making a real tough decision in life. Perhaps we could make that situation a little bit easier.”
It’s a position that Frieman clearly takes as well.
“I am very pleased to see my HB 5 getting the publicity it deserves around our state. This is needed legislation to help pregnant women, and I am proud to bring it to the legislature,” he wrote on Facebook. “And I’m very thankful for the outpouring of support I have received already for this bill.”
[Editor’s note: This story originally was published by Live Action News.]
EDITOR’S NOTE: What is behind the current war against America’s children? Why are so many adults killing their unborn children right up to the moment of birth, or even after? Why are millions of kids sexualized virtually from birth, and injected with an experimental “vaccine” proven to be both ineffective and dangerous, then as toddlers transported to events glorifying mentally ill, demonically possessed men dressed as women?
Why are America’s children systematically sexualized at school, and by transgender recruiters on social media platforms like TikTok, seducing many into “identifying” as the opposite gender, or a brand-new imaginary gender, then encouraged to take powerful drugs and hormones and have their healthy breasts amputated or undergo chemical or surgical castration?
Why are our children simultaneously indoctrinated with toxic Marxist ideologies like “critical race theory” intended to condition them to hate and reject their own country, parents, faith, race, gender and themselves? Why are they simultaneously being frightened of the future by being fed lurid, terrifying – and groundless – apocalyptic tales of the imminent destruction of the world due to global warming?
No wonder youth suicides have skyrocketed, as have depression, anxiety, addiction and drug overdoses. Indeed, fentanyl, the No. 1 cause of death of younger Americans 18 to 45, destroys multitudes of children annually.
Make no mistake: The harm being done to America’s children in this multi-front war is not accidental: Children are the primary target.
WHY? How can all this be happening in the greatest nation on earth? Who and what is behind it? And HOW CAN IT BE STOPPED?
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