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- From: margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis)
- Subject: Re: Biological Reasons for Male Choice
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:45:59 GMT
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- In <Bznxxy.752@cs.psu.edu> beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
- >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.
-
- True, but it's a process of elimination. If the woman *wants* child
- support, then she will, in most cases, be able to get to the father
- eventually. While women might not be able to name the father in a
- few cases, I think this number would be dwarfed by the number of men
- required to pay child support in your case 1, where there would *be* no
- child if abortion had remained legal. (Also, I don't see how this case 3
- has anything to do with whether or not abortion is legal.)
- --
- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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