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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal: Illegitimate-conception Tax
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- Kevin Darcy (kevin@rotag.mi.org) wrote:
- :
- : It would only be necessary to do testing in the cases where the putative
- : father was trying to avoid the Tax. Once he's "fingered" by the mother
- : (as the law would require), then let HIM pay for the tests if he fights it
- : and loses.
-
- So if the mother refuses to cooperate (or simply does not know) then you
- toss her in jail?
-
- And if you have more that one suspect?
-
- :
- : As for the expense of DNA testing, I'm no medical expert, but can't paternity
- : be established in most cases by relatively simple blood tests (blood type,
- : enzymes, etc.)? Seems to me the need to do full-blown DNA testing would be
- : rather rare...
-
- If both parents had a common blood type (e.g. O rh-) then a simple blood test
- is not going to get you very far. Only in some cases would such a test be
- beyond reasonable doubt.
- :
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