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The State buying itself a guarantee of child support obligation

So Texas Republican State Senator Dan Patrick has authored legislation for Texas to pay pregnant women who are considering an abortion $500 to carry the child to term and surrender the child for adoption. Details of the law require the child be placed for adoption and has a time limit. Existing cases are calling into question male exemption from child support in the face of contract, truth, or even reason. In cases involving sperm donors, improperly handled IVF materials, IVF materials stolen in divorce disputes, or even “my twin brother might have done it” defenses against dna evidence in rape cases, the courts are showing that DNA links trump everything. Would the State of Texas engaging in what amounts to the tax payers buying a child from a child vendor provide an unknowing father a way of escaping the paternal responsibilities of child support? I think not. What is to stop Texas from paying some woman $500 to carry her baby to term, and then when the child lands on the welfare roles after being unadoptable, having social services identify the father and seek child support.