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- From: smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Jim, the chastity belt theory, and me, Part 1
- Message-ID: <32728@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:11:11 GMT
- Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
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- I have to break apart my continuation of the thread with Jim since my
- posting system is gagging on very long articles. Apologies in
- advance:
-
- In article <1992Nov15.190305.26198@panix.com> jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb)
- writes to me:
-
- >My claim was only that child support payments are a heavy obligation
- >that can seriously affect the ability of the person burdened by the
- >obligation to live his life as he wants to. There are obvious
- >differences between making such payments and being pregnant. The
- >obligations we are subject to, though, depend on the situations we
- >find ourselves in, and since men can't find themselves in the
- >situation of being pregnant they can't be subject to an obligation
- >exactly equivalent to pregnancy.
- >
- >I don't think I stated or implied that the legitimacy of forbidding
- >most abortions depends on how burdensome the obligation of child
- >support is -- it seems an irrelevancy to me, and I only said something
- >about it because you wanted me to name a burden on the father.
-
- I asked to name an equivalent burden put on men: You responded with
- child support, which you now admit is not equivalent. The inability
- to name an equivalent burden is exactly what I call the chastity belt
- theory of illegal abortion. You are unhappy with the rate of sexual
- intercourse in our society and you want to solve this problem by
- forcing women to carry all unwanted pregnancies to term. This is
- unfair to women. Why should women bear all the burden for solving
- what you perceive as too much sex?
-