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- From: peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri)
- Newsgroups: soc.men,alt.abortion.inequity,alt.feminism
- Subject: Re: Male Choice Revisited
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 01:36:05 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
-
- >If you agree with Michal's position that the vile offense of
- >"not keeping in touch" should be grounds to terminate a father's
- >parental rights, then what do you think about the following:
-
- > A couple is together for a year, but they break up and
- > move to different cities, with each other's address. The
- > woman is two weeks' pregnant. She later has the baby but
- > doesn't tell the father.
-
- >Michal would like the laws to permit her to terminate the
- >father's parental rights, because he has, in Michal's words,
- >"fled the scene."
-
- >According to Michal, the man can preserve his parental rights
- >only by traveling to the woman's new city eight months after
- >breaking up, in order to pursue her and see in person whether
- >she is now pregnant.
-
- This is a misrepresentation of my position. Perhaps you have
- misunderstood? Allow me to clarify.
-
- We were discussing father notification of a woman's pregnancy
- in order to allow him to claim the child should the woman choose
- to give that child up for adoption. My position is that the
- birth of the child is already a matter of public record on
- which the father can easily follow up (eg, by writing to the
- county recorder). Thus there is no need for legislation
- mandating "paternal notification". Moreover, notification
- of the woman's pregnancy (as distinct from the *birth* of the
- child) is a violation of the woman's right to privacy.
-
-
- --
-
- -- Michal
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- Of course there's no reason!
-