Reply #63: well we really should have an idea [View All]

you can't legislate for the exceptions. Especially, you can't take away EVERYONE'S choice because of a few stupid people. Anyway, how on earth do you expect to enforce a law like that?

Just write the law and your duty is done? Three strikes and they take the rest of your eggs? Doesn't the father also have a duty to keep his sperm motile, baked at the right temperature (no hottubs or hot baths), and with largely whole and wholesome DNA (no old fuckers) due to living like a young old-country Amish man?

You are going to have to test women for tobacco products at every step of the pregnancy. A woman who wants to smoke against all common sense and better advice will continue to smoke. Does that mean that skipping pre-natal exams will be illegal? Does that mean that child protective services takes the baby as soon as it's born? Does she pay a fine? Go to jail? Based on gossip? Direct observation? Indirect testing? Circumstantial evidence? Do they do a blood test or just snip her hair like for modern corporate drug tests?

What a mess! Educate them. Reach them. Convince them. Like adults dealing with adults.