Utah Now Making Fathers Chip in for Medical Costs Accumulated by Children They Sire

Utah is the first state in the country looking to change that by passing legislation that will require fathers to foot half of the medical bills for childbirth, according to the BBC:

“Utah’s Shared Medical Costs law requires biological fathers to pay half of a mother’s insurance premiums – her monthly health insurance costs – during pregnancy as well as all other related medical fees, including the birth of the child.”

The law isn’t perfect, of course. Similar to child support, mothers have to seek payment through the court system, which, as the child of that court system, I can say with full authority that it sucks. The law also doesn’t cover the costs of abortion because, well, this is both American and Utah we’re talking about here. But still, it’s something, though if the powers that be would like Americans to keep birthing babies in service of our all-consuming economy, they should really make pushing them out free, at the very least.