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- From: kgowen@cie.uoregon.edu (Kevin Gowen)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics.clinton
- Subject: Re: Lifestyle Choices and Secular Reasoning
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 18:02:39 GMT
- Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange
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- References: <1992Dec30.185545.26789@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <C07oBz.F74@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan02.093611.24497@microsoft.com>
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- Summary: Hillary Clinton's legal reasoning
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- In article <1993Jan02.093611.24497@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
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- >In article <C07oBz.F74@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> kellmeye@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (kellmeyer steven l) writes:
- >>
- >>Hillary Clinton et.al. have reasoned, secularly, that children should be
- >>given the same legal rights and representation as adults, including the
- >>right to divorce their parents.
- >
- > Can you document this? I haven't heard anything of the sort.
- >
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- I believe this comes from an essay that Hillary Clinton wrote that was included
- in a collection titled "Children's Rights: Contemporary Perspectives"
- published by Teacher's College Press in 1979. Her main thesis was
- that the legal system's presumption of juvenile incompentence should be
- abolished and that a minor should be considered to have equal standing with
- adults unless proven incompetent. "Children should have a right to decide their
- own future if they are competent" is what Ms. Clinton said back then.
- Therefore, it is necessary to "...reverse the presumption of incompentency
- and instead assume all individuals are competent unless proven otherwise."
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- She also said that some decisions "should not be made unilaterally by
- parents" regarding areas "where the decision or lack of one will significantly
- affect the child's future."
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- In this 1979 essay, Hillary Clinton does *not* say outright, "I think that
- children should be allowed to sue and divorce their parents". But in my
- opinion it can be easily derived from the ideas she presents in this essay.
-
- >[rest deleted]
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- >Phil Lafornara 1 Microsoft Way
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- -kevin
- kgowen@cie.uoregon.edu
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