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- From: cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C J Silverio)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.abortion.inequity
- Subject: consent to sex == ? (was: Abortion, Caves, Galen)
- Message-ID: <ueflmto@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 04:02:53 GMT
- References: <aidler.725614614@sanjuan> <1992Dec29.161612.29567@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <aidler.725880734@sanjuan>
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- Reply-To: cj@sgi.com (C J Silverio)
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- aidler@sanjuan.UVic.CA (E Alan Idler) writes:
- |Parents have an obligation to their children.
- |Since no one other than the pregnant woman can
- |provide for her child at this stage of his or
- |her life, whatever obligations exist are
- |conferred to her.
- |She accepted this responsibility when she
- |consented to sexual relations -- unless she
- |did not comprehend the consequences of her actions.
- |
- |Yes, you may infer that I would object to government
- |impairing the right of sexually assaulted women
- |to terminate an undesired pregnancy.
- |All simple statement that she did not consent to
- |sexual relations would suffice. [...]
-
- So consent to sex is consent to pregnancy, and eventually,
- consent to parenthood, according to E Alan Idler.
-
- Any of the "dad's rights" people care to address this point?
- I'm bored with refuting it to an endless stream Idler-like
- idiots, and want to give someone else a chance.
-
- ---
- C J Silverio cj@sgi.com ceej@well.sf.ca.us
- "People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that
- differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute." --Rebecca West
-