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- From: Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org>
- Subject: Pro-Choice Parents != Bad Parents
- X-To: BILL WHEDON
- Organization: The Zoo of Ids
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 17:35:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.012313.21866@zooid.guild.org>
- Sender: Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org>
- Lines: 53
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- whedon@netcom.com (Bill Whedon) writes...
- >In article <1992Dec17.035039.2257@zooid.guild.org> Will Steeves <goid@zooid.gui
- >d.org> writes:
- >>It's not that simple, Lana. *David* may not want children (perhaps never),
- >>but a vasectomy might be a bit TOO extreme, especially if he should decide in
- >>the future that he wants to have a family.
- >>
- >God help 'em if he does!
-
- Why? Would it make someone a bad father, because he doesn't want children
- at some given time? Do you make the same assumption about "pro-choice"
- *women*? Indeed, wouldn't you think that *willing* parents are better
- parents than *unwilling* parents?
-
-
- >>These operations are more or less *irreversible*, so rather than force people
- >>who don't to be parents RIGHT NOW, into a situation where they will NEVER
- >>become parents, why not try to offer men and women a comfortable degree of
- >>reproductive freedom. Women currently have this freedom, why shouldn't men?
- >>
- >>---
- >Stuff above having been deleted for clarity, I would simply inject the thought
- >that most of the men coming down on the "pro" side of the contract issue are
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >of a sort best nut-cut and non-procreative.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Not at all. *I* have a baby daughter, whom I *did* want, but I also support
- the right of men and women to decide when they should be parents.
-
-
- >I'd certainly not like to have
- >any one of them as _my_ father. Bunch of priggish anal-retentive gits.
-
- Neither of your parents is "pro-choice" then, I take it?
-
-
- >Bill Whedon whedon@netcom.com
- >--
- >-- If I ain't programmin' I ain't awake! --
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Same here, ugh... :-)
-
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