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- From: margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis)
- Subject: Re: Biological Reasons for Male Choice
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:35:57 GMT
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- In <BzMAvL.D2t@cs.psu.edu> beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec19.105022.6279@desire.wright.edu> sbishop@desire.wright.edu writes:
- >
- >>But what on earth does support for anti-abortion have to do with either of
- >>these? Men who want reproductive rights should be supporting abortion on
- >>demand. If they don't then they are just fighting themselves, not women.
- >>Because if abortion is totally outlawed, then you can BET the number of
- >>men required to pay support will increase dramaticly.
- >
- >I don't see your reasoning.
- >
- >1. Perhaps the number of pregnancies would go down (or extranational
- >abortions increase), if abortion were illegal.
-
- Perhaps. But probably *not* by the number of abortions that are currently
- being performed. So I, too, would bet that the number of unwanted
- pregnancies carried to term would increase.
-
- Also, note that a number of people have trouble scraping up the money
- to get the abortion; there's no way that these people would be able to
- travel outside the country to get an abortion.
-
- >2. Perhaps the consequences of feminism would give men equal custody
- >(especially the younger generations) hence reducing the number of men
- >paying support (and the number of women willing to risk pregnancy).
-
- (Couldn't hazard a guess.)
-
- >3. Accurate paternity tests make things different from pre-Roe
- >days, and the effects aren't predictable on the face of the matter:
- >perhaps more fathers would be identified, or perhaps more potential
- >victims would be able to prove they weren't the father.
-
- This is addressing wrongful identication, which seems to have nothing
- to do with the number of men required to pay child support. (The wrong
- man won't be, but the right one will; the net stays the same.)
- --
- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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