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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal: Illegitimate-conception Tax
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.182624.18809@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1993Jan19.034240.24820@rotag.mi.org> <1993Jan21.135430.14570@aston.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:26:24 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.135430.14570@aston.ac.uk> evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes:
- >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?
-
- No, we make her pay his portion of the taxes.
-
- >And if you have more that one suspect?
-
- How do we deal with the situation now?
-
- >: 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.
-
- My point is that we wouldn't necessarily need to do full-blown DNA testing
- on everyone. Only on the tiny, rare, non-co-operative-and-hard-to-determine-
- just-from-traditional-paternity-tests subset of cases.
-
- - Kevin
-