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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: 4 Jan 1993 00:00:46 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
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- >In article <1i4ul0INNjf6@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >>requiring a woman to notify anyone of
- >>her pregnancy is a violation of her privacy.
-
- >Its not a violation of her privacy if you intend the result of her actions,
- >and the result of that pregnancy, to impact on SOMEONE ELSE'S financial
- >future.
-
- It is not the pregnancy that affects "someone else's" financial future.
- It is the birth.
-
- >Women should be free to keep from men the fact that they are pregnant,
- >presumably to keep them from influencing their decision on whether or not to
- >bear the child.
-
- At this point the men has no *legal* way to force the woman's decision
- on whether of not to bear the child. So what good does it do to
- legislate that the woman must tell him about the pregnancy? (Besides
- the obvious questions of enforceability of such legislation....)
-
- >However, those same women should be able to bill the man for the result of
- >>her decision<, without his input, and without his concern.
-
- Strictly speaking, it is not the woman that bills the man. Child support
- is ordered by the state on behalf of the child.
-
- --
-
- -- Michal
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- Of course there's no reason!
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