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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Male Choice, How?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.060617.25453@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <BzLC7y.39q@ddsw1.mcs.com> <1574@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:06:17 GMT
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- In article <1574@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk> dvp@oasis.icl.co.uk (Dave Parry) writes:
- >karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
- >>
- >> I think the best way to do this is to require >both< parties to sign the
- >> same form. That way the man knows at the time its signed that the woman
- >> won't abort the fetus, and the woman knows the man can't legally run off.
- >>
- >> That is, there is mutual assent.
- >>
- >> I like it.
- >
- >The only problem is Karl is that, as has been pointed out here a
- >number of times, it is a woman's right to change her mind and abort
- >or not as she pleases. It is not a man's right to support or not as he
- >pleases.
-
- Okay, so much for legal trivialities about how the law IS; now try to
- come up with a coherent justification for why the law SHOULD BE that
- way, Dave...
-
- >I can't believe that if an agreement was signed (whereby the
- >man would not be obligated to support a child he did not want) and the
- >women decided to keep it and go to court for support, that the judge
- >would rule in the man's favour. I'm also sure that her legal council
- >would have a (probably successful) go at ruling the agreement
- >unconstitutional. One way or another, they'll make you pay.
-
- Unconstitutional? In what way? Seems to me that the Right to Contract
- (which is guaranteed in the Constitution) is a far more compelling
- Constitutional argument in FAVOR of enforcing the contract, than the
- state's Right to Declare a Contract Invalid for Any Arbitrary Irrational
- Reason It Chooses (which, as far as I know, doesn't exist anywhere).
- Please enlighten me.
-
- - Kevin
-