Alabama's new, anti-abortion legislation is not the zenith of government intervention in the intimate lives of some citizens. There's new policy in the State Department that in effect if not in fact does away with the 14th Amendment.
Bbirth-right citizenship is being denied to the children of same-sex couples First there were what Trump and other Birthers came to call anchor babies . Now, we're seeing a mirror image of the anchor baby scenario, in which children born abroad, but of U.S. citizens, are also being targeted.
Our State Department now claims:
Even if local law recognizes a
surrogacy agreement and finds that U.S. parents are the legal parents
of a child conceived and born abroad… if the child does not have a
biological connection to a U.S. citizen parent, the child will not be a
U.S. citizen at birth.
To make a long, specious, and convoluted argument more straightforward, this means that children born via
gestational surrogacy and other forms of assisted reproductive
technology are considered to be born out of wedlock, even if their parents are
legally married.
Can you say dark, boys and girls?
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