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- From: peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.abortion.inequity,soc.men
- Subject: Re: Male Choice Revi (1)
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 23:21:32 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
-
- >Seems to me that we have, as a people in America, reached a crossroads:
-
- > I posit that both of these situations are undesirable for the people
- > concerned.
-
- >I propose we act together. I propose that both women AND men do something
- >historic -- act together as a group to secure reproductive and parental
- >rights for both genders.
-
- >What I envision is a law which provides all of the following:
- [proposal deleted for brevity]
-
- >This package of legislation would provide the following:
-
- >1) It would >guarantee< the right of a woman to choose whether or not
- > to carry a pregnancy to term - - that is, codify at a federal level
- > the freedom of reproduction that women want.
-
- >2) It would >guarantee< the right of a man to choose whether or not to
- > become a father, while insuring that the woman (who is the ultimate
- > authority on the final disposition of the fetus) has enough
- > information to know whether or not she can expect a full 1/2
- > contribution in the raising and parenting of that child BEFORE it
- > becomes her (or their) ward.
-
- >3) It would provide that should a child be wanted by EITHER of its
- > parents that it would have a home with said parent(s) in preference
- > to adoptive placement with any other person.
-
- >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.
-
- How does your proposal protect the interests of an unwanted child
- (assuming it isn't aborted)? How does it protect the interests of
- a child who is wanted by a parent who is financially unable tp
- provide for said child?
-
- -- Michal
-