NationStates Jolt Archive

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This is just plain child abuse, as well as being pretty damned sad.

"Hi, I was considered to play Superman in the new movie even though at 41 I'm really too old, and because they finally decided not to give me the part, I am saddling my son with the name Kal-El Coppola Cage so he can pay for it with humilation for the rest of his life... or at least until he's old enough to file for a name change."

That poor kid.

Celebrities should be rounded up and shot

Careful what you wish for, Kat. According to this story (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/3/213554/300) at the Daily Kos (complete with a link to the legislation in a pdf file), Indiana Republicans are trying to make marriage a legal requirement for motherhood, including specific criminal penalties for unmarried women who do
become pregnant "by means other than sexual intercourse."

Frightened yet?

He'll probably be called Kal throughout his school years. It would be much worse if his middle name started with an F.

yikes. I mean I wanted to name my kid wookie wookie chewbacca but then I realized that my kid wasn't a hampster and would have to like get a job someday and actually admit that their name was wookie so I didn't.

btw I do taxes and have met someone named James T. Kirk(he had that changed from his original on his own) and a kid named Clark Kent (who totally didn't get my superman joke :()

Careful what you wish for, Kat. According to this story (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/3/213554/300) at the Daily Kos (complete with a link to the legislation in a pdf file), Indiana Republicans are trying to make marriage a legal requirement for motherhood, including specific criminal penalties for unmarried women who do
become pregnant "by means other than sexual intercourse."

Frightened yet?
Um, not unless they amend their own constitution first, for that matter it probably wouldn't fly under the 14th amendment either.

Careful what you wish for, Kat. According to this story (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/3/213554/300) at the Daily Kos (complete with a link to the legislation in a pdf file), Indiana Republicans are trying to make marriage a legal requirement for motherhood, including specific criminal penalties for unmarried women who do
become pregnant "by means other than sexual intercourse."

Frightened yet?
Yeah? Ask them what penalty they would have given Mary for her virgin birth.

Wow Charlton Heston is 82!

What?
Oh yes, sorry it was on the bottom of the article page......

Topic, yes.....
So his name is Kal-El? It's not too bad andd certainly no worse that onthers I have heard. Infact Kal isn't a bad name really.

(Well, what yah lookin' at me for? OK so my daughter is called Lursa......she suites it!)

Thout Modeth Speaketh thy Truth!

(Well, what yah lookin' at me for? OK so my daughter is called Lursa......she suites it!)
*blinks* Trying to imagine what someone looks like who fits the name Lursa is hard. The closest I can get is Ursula from The Little Mermaid and I really hope you daughter doesn't look like that.

Careful what you wish for, Kat. According to this story (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/3/213554/300) at the Daily Kos (complete with a link to the legislation in a pdf file), Indiana Republicans are trying to make marriage a legal requirement for motherhood, including specific criminal penalties for unmarried women who do
become pregnant "by means other than sexual intercourse."

Frightened yet?
How the hell else are you going to get pregnant?

Unelss that one is targetted towards lesbian couples and single women who want kids.

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This is just plain child abuse, as well as being pretty damned sad.

"Hi, I was considered to play Superman in the new movie even though at 41 I'm really too old, and because they finally decided not to give me the part, I am saddling my son with the name Kal-El Coppola Cage so he can pay for it with humilation for the rest of his life... or at least until he's old enough to file for a name change."
I hope that Nick sticks around long enough for the kid to grow up and knock out a couple of his Hollywood teeth.

How the hell else are you going to get pregnant?

Unelss that one is targetted towards lesbian couples and single women who want kids.

Just guessing, probably more focused on artificial insemination type stuff.

*blinks* Trying to imagine what someone looks like who fits the name Lursa is hard. The closest I can get is Ursula from The Little Mermaid and I really hope you daughter doesn't look like that.

STNG. Duras sisters.....

Kids are so yesterday, the true narcistic egocentric parent gets a clone of himself.

How the hell else are you going to get pregnant?

Unelss that one is targetted towards lesbian couples and single women who want kids.
That's precisely who it's targeted at. The rest of the story notes that if a woman wants to get IVF treatment, for instance, she has to get what amounts to a license to give to the attending physician, and to get that license, she has to be married.

Now I don't know if anyone else has looked into IVF, but I have, as I had a vasectomy right after my daughter was born 15 years ago, and a couple of years ago, my girlfriend and I started talking about having kids. Let me tell you--it's expensive. Ten grand just to get started, and usually closer to double that, with no real guarantees that it'll work. So this isn't linked to financial stability, because no private insurance company covers it, and neither does Medicare, etc. This is the attempted imposition of one party's "values" on the populace of a state, and an invasion of one of the most private of decisions.