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- From: margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis)
- Subject: Re: Biological Reasons for Male Choice
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.223912.19035@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:39:12 GMT
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- In <1992Dec28.183805.33934@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis) writes:
- >In <BzsD10.KxJ@cs.psu.edu> beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
- >><1992Dec22.194559.23077@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
- >>
- >>> 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.
- >>
- >>Again, the point of (1) and (2) is to say that the number of births
- >>may well be reduced.
- >
- >Again, I would tend to doubt it.
- >
- >>If abortions were illegal AND men got custody and child support 50%
- >>of the time, I would bet that the number of unwanted pregnancies
- >>would go down.
- >
- >But if abortion were legal, I would bet that the net effect would be
- ^^^^^
- >that the number of unwanted *births* would *increase*.
-
- Oops - that should be *illegal*. Sorry...
-
- >>Again, I'm discussing a hypothetical case, not proposing anything.
- >
- >Then I think we should just agree to disagree.
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- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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