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- From: beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
- Subject: Men's Liabilities (Male Choice)
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:38:59 GMT
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- <1h8fq5INNono@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- I have no *great* desire to start up yet another thread,
- but this implies that a man faces an 21-year liability
- that can be thrust upon him in the space of a day.
-
-
- He can't make any plans for his future or for the
- future of his existing family (God forbid, buy a house),
- given that he may SUDDENLY face a $200,000 bill for
- a broken condom -- a bill that required the intentional,
- voluntarily continued, private, 9-month, hard efforts
- of a woman to generate.
-
- His share of the liability: up to 100%.
-
- Don
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