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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: 2 Jan 1993 20:41:03 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu (Eric Forbis ) writes:
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- >In article <1h8fq5INNono@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >>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.
-
- >highly mobile and people relocate frequently. Notifying a local government
- >where the father will likely never find the record is hardly making it
- >"public" in any meaningful sense-- but that's what you want, no?
-
- >Notification of pregnancy is not a violation of the mother's right to
- >privacy. Rights end where others begin; a pregnancy exists in part because
- >of the other, and when fatherhood is the issue, that "other" certainly has
- >the right to know.
-
- Would you be satisfied with paternal notification of the child's birth?
- I would have no problem with that with regards to privacy considerations,
- since the birth is already a matter of the public record. (I have problems
- with requiring additional governmental paperwork, but that is not an
- direct inequity issue.) However, requiring a woman to notify anyone of
- her pregnancy is a violation of her privacy.
-
- --
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- -- Michal
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- Of course there's no reason!
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