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- From: (Chris Burian)
- Subject: Re: A proposal for reproductive freedom for BOTH sexes
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 22:31:43 GMT
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- karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
-
- >What I envision is a law which provides all of the following:
-
- >1) Provides a declaration of a woman's right to choose up to the 12th
- > week of pregnancy whether or not to have an abortion -- as a federal
- > law. Not on privacy grounds -- but on ownership of one's body.
-
- >1.5) Provides a declaration that in the event that a woman does not want
- > to keep a child, but also does not wish to abort for any reason, may
- > place said child up for adoption at birth. The male parent shall
- > have the right of first refusal to adopt a child produced in this
- > circumstance.
-
- >2) Provides a declaration that >men< have the right, up to the 12th
- > week of pregnancy of a women that they are the father, to state
- > whether or not they want the rights and responsibilities of the
- > foetus in-utereo. Include a provision that should the pregnancy be
- > concealed from the man, that he has 30 days from the date of
- > discovery to declare his intentions.
-
- > Rights (1) and (2) are to apply >regardless< of the marital status
- > of the parties. (Should married parties disagree on these points
- > there may not be a marriage shortly thereafter)
-
- >3) Provides a declaration that in custody cases, and in the event of
- > a split of a present-case family unit, that both parties will be
- > presumed to be equally capable of parenting, and that the split
- > shall be 50-50 with regards to custody. Further, the default
- > support award shall be >zero< (since both parents have the
- > responsibility half the time, they both inherently bear half the
- > costs). In particular, repeal the "tender years" doctrine at
- > the federal level and require proof by preponderance of the
- > evidence that a parent is >unsuitable< -- not "less suitable" --
- > before the default custody split of 50-50 is modified.
-
- > Further, should one parent choose to move away from the original area
- > where the divorce took place, the parent which decides to move shall
- > bear the cost(s) of transporting the child(ren) involved to comply
- > with the custody decision. In no case shall this movement be
- > grounds for modification of custody.
-
- >4) Provide a declaration that any allegation of abuse made by one
- > parent or another which is proven false and baseless shall be:
- > 1) A class X felony (similar to dealing narcotics)
- > 2) Immediately cause the accusing person to be ineligible to
- > receive further custody of children in said dispute.
-
- >5) Provide that interference with custody arrangements of any kind
- > by a parent is grounds for immediate loss of custody of the child(ren)
- > affected, and is additionally a federal felony. This is intended to
- > prevent situations where parents "impound" their children against a
- > court order or in the hopes of "swinging" a custody dispute.
-
- This is a *very* reasonable and well-thought-out proposal. The problem
- in getting it passed is that it has enemies on both sides: the minority
- of women who are professional victims and consider men to be oppresive
- walking wallets, and the minority of paternalistic men (legislators
- and judges) who consider women to be inherently inferior and thus in
- need of extra "protection."
-
- >I expect to get flamed to hell for this suggestion. Nonetheless, I believe
- >that a >balanced< approach such as this, which can be supported by both men
- >and women, is the only way both men and women will manage to guarantee their
- >reproductive freedom >and< their rights and responsibilities with regards to
- >minor children.
-
- Any flames will come from closed-minded people in the above-mentioned
- two groups.
-
- >Anyone want to join in on this one and see if we can get some legislative
- >action on this proposal at a federal level?
-
- >--
- >Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl)
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- Christopher Burian---
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