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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Biological Reasons fo
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.185320.11462@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1e9108INNlmu@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> <1992Nov17.055842.5919@netcom.com> <1eb92iINNiuq@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:53:20 GMT
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- In article <1eb92iINNiuq@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.055842.5919@netcom.com> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- >>regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes ...
- >>> karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
- >>>>This is unequal, wrong, and has nothing to do with "privacy". It has
- >>>>everything to do with making men a walking wallet. It is time that this
- >>>>is stopped - permanently.
- >>>Which *again* ignores the woman's financial contribution!
- >>One key (and to me, obvious) difference is that women have far greater
- >>say about their level of financial contribution. A woman need not pay
- >>much of anything if she is so inclined.
- >
- >Obviously, by not having the baby.
- >
- >However, for those women who have had the baby, either through a belief that
- >abortion is a moral wrong, or a desire to become a mother, this isn't true.
- >A mother is as obliged to support her child as a father, under the law.
-
- Both of those things you cite -- moral qualms with abortion, desire to become
- a mother -- are examples of voluntary choices, Adrienne. And a voluntary
- choice amounts to consent. The woman consents to her liability, but the man
- does not. Do you still suffer from the "invisible consent" syndrome?
-
- - Kevin
-