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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: 3 Jan 1993 23:54:05 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
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- >In article <1i4ul0INNjf6@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >>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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- >If she wants 18 years of child support, then the father should be notified
- >of the pregnancy. Otherwise the man has no say. After birth, all she has to
- >do is to take hime to court, it is too late a joint decision.
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- The father has no say whether or not he is notified of the pregnancy.
- As the law currently stands, one conception has occurred he is obligated
- to support the child if it is born (unless he and the mother *both*
- agree to put the child up for adoption.)
-
- >The notion that the pregnancy is not the fathers business, but the child after
- >birth is is a bit odd. If she wants to raise the child herself, she need not
- >notify the father at all. If she wants child support, then the father has
- >a need and a right to know about the pregnancy.
-
- No, he has a need and a right to know about the birth.
-
- > Unless, as you seem to feel,
- >it really does not matter what the father feels/wants/can afford, the women
- >has every right to make the decisions for him, after all, the idiot unzipped
- >his zipper.
-
- That is exactly what I feel. The woman has a right to make decisions
- regarding the outcome of the pregnancy, because it occurs within her body.
- And if the child is born then the father *is* obliged to support. Regardless
- of what he feels/wants/can afford.
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- -- Michal
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- Of course there's no reason!
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