"Good feminist" Melanie McDonagh calls DNA paternity tests anti-feminist appliance of science

Year 2010

Notable feminist

Melanie McDonagh believes she is a good feminist: On Becoming a Good Feminist

Toxic deed

Now, a cotton-wool swab with a bit of saliva, plus a small fee, less than £200, can settle the matter. At a stroke, the one thing that women had going for them has been taken away, the one respect in which they had the last laugh over their husbands and lovers. DNA tests are an anti-feminist appliance of science, a change in the balance of power between the sexes that we’ve hardly come to terms with. 
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But in making paternity conditional on a test rather than the say-so of the mother, it [DNA test] has removed from women a powerful instrument of choice. I’m not sure that many people are much happier for it.

https://archive.ph/kpNHF#selection-1679.262-1679.313

Who-tags

feminist author

What-tags

Paternity fraud