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- From: matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Pre-Sex Contract
- Summary: Forced Fatherhood?
- Keywords: RU486
- Message-ID: <19488@smoke.brl.mil>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 16:16:44 GMT
- References: <1992Dec5.184937.7439@rotag.mi.org> <19441@smoke.brl.mil> <1992Dec18.192354.12286@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Lab, APG MD.
- Lines: 49
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- In article <1992Dec18.192354.12286@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org
- (Kevin Darcy) writes:
-
- >In article <19441@smoke.brl.mil> matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt)
- >writes:
-
- >>The same goes for a man who has moral convictions against using RU486
- >>to terminate his girl-friend's unwanted (by him!) pregnancy.
- >>[Matt Rosenblatt]
-
- >Without her consent, you mean? Since when are people allowed to make risky
- >changes to other people's body chemistry without their consent? "Moral
- >conviction" or no "moral conviction", this is chemical assault & battery
- >you're proposing, and the state has every right to forbid it on social
- >policy grounds. [Kevin Darcy]
-
- That means that the State has every right to force a man who has
- conceived a child to become a father. And that being so, why
- should the State not have every right to force that man to *act*
- like a father and support his child?
-
- Moreover, even if the State does forbid men from using RU486 to
- terminate unwanted pregnancies, that's not going to keep all men
- from using it in spite of the State. Does Mr. Darcy have any idea
- how desperate a man might become when he's facing at least eighteen
- years of child support payments for a child he *does not want* and
- whom he conceived during a one-night stand? *Of course* someone
- like Mr. Darcy himself would have too much respect for a girl's
- "bodily autonomy" to resort to "chemical assault & battery," but
- someone with fewer scruples, with no regard for either his unborn
- child or his erstwhile bed partner, may just be desperate enough
- to go ahead and sprinkle RU486 into his girl-friend's salad or
- drink, illegal or not. Remember, no criminal commits his crime
- believing he will be detected and punished. The practitioner
- of "male choice" will figure, "she'll never know what happened
- to her, and I'll get off Scot-free."
-
- Right now, the State requires men to support their children, with
- legal penalties for those caught not doing so. And yet, far too many
- children go without support, because so many men disregard that law.
- The State's law prohibiting "male-choice" through RU486 is just
- like any other law: those who have an interest in breaking it, and
- who think they will get away with breaking it, will break it.
-
- -- Matt Rosenblatt
- (matt@amsaa.brl.mil)
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