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- From: beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
- Subject: Re: Biological Reasons for Male Choice
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- References: <1992Dec19.105022.6279@desire.wright.edu> <BzMAvL.D2t@cs.psu.edu> <1992Dec21.193557.11096@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:39:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.193557.11096@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
- >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.
-
- >>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.)
-
- No; you are assuming the true father is always among those "accused."
-
- Wrongfully-named men would now be able to prove that they are not
- required to pay support (as is right).
-
- In order to maintain the same level, according to your mathematical
- reasoning, the "right one" must then be named, found and identified.
- This is neither automatic nor simple.
-
- Don
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