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- From: matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Purported Contract for Studs'n'Sluts (Was: Re: Pre-Sex Contract)
- Keywords: sex, agreement, legal, contract
- Message-ID: <19487@smoke.brl.mil>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 16:02:49 GMT
- References: <1992Nov26.025827.14220@cfctech.cfc.com> <19418@smoke.brl.mil> <1992Dec18.191058.12162@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Lab, APG MD.
- Lines: 42
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- In article <1992Dec18.191058.12162@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org
- (Kevin Darcy) writes:
-
- >In article <19418@smoke.brl.mil> matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt)
- >writes:
-
- >>Not so! Once a man has conceived a child, his right not to become a
- >>father receives precisely as much weight as his right to become a father,
- >>viz., as much weight as the woman carrying the child feels like giving it.
- >>She does not even have to tell him she's pregnant, until after the child
- >>is born and she wants support money. [Matt Rosenblatt]
-
- >And you see nothing wrong with this? [Kevin Darcy]
-
- I didn't say I see nothing wrong with this. There's plenty wrong with it.
- Does Mr. Darcy think the the law ought to be that the mother *should* have
- to notify the father that she is pregnant? Is the man's right to become
- a father worth even that much? If not, why should his right not to
- become a father be worth that much?
-
- >>The recent _Casey_ case is the current state of the law, as much as the
- >>long line of cases and statutes requiring a man to support his biological
- >>child. Mr. Darcy is saying that he approves of one aspect of current law
- >>("fundamental rights"), but not another. [Matt Rosenblatt]
-
- >I don't think it's appropriate to put a price on forced continuation of
- >pregnancy, Rosenblatt, and I think you're pretty cold if you think
- >property rights are anywhere near as "fundamental" as the right to bodily
- >autonomy. [Kevin Darcy]
-
- That's funny: The framers of the Vth and XIVth Amendments thought
- property rights "fundamental" enough to mention them explicitly,
- whereas the so-called "right to bodily autonomy" is nowhere mentioned
- in the Constitution. Let some junkie try invoking the "right to
- bodily autonomy" as a defense to a prosecution for using heroin, and
- see how far he gets.
-
- -- Matt Rosenblatt
- (matt@amsaa.brl.mil)
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