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- From: beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
- Subject: Re: Privacy -- and responsibility
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:17:34 GMT
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- peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >x73rl@ll.mit.edu ( Rick LaFave) writes:
- >
- >>I've said in the past that there is an inconsistancy between saying that he
- >>has no rights as far as the z/e/f is concerned and demanding he support the
- >>resulting child. If support is demanded, then he must have some rights
- >>associated with the z/e/f, if he has no such rights, then support should
- >>not be mandated.
- >
- >I agree that the situation is not a good one. However I find the
- >alternatives worse. Either (1) men get control over prengnacy and abortion,
- >thereby women lose bodily autonomy. Or (2) children go unsupported by
- >one or more of their parents, thereby either living in poverty or becoming
- >a burden on society at large (or both).
-
-
- Either (1) you've listed all alternatives; or
- (2) you've repeatedly ignored everything posted.
-
-
- A woman who has free choice should not be able to commit a man's life
- to her decision. If a fetus is not a person, and a fetus can be legally
- aborted, then the woman has the *responsibility* -- balanced by her
- *unilateral right* -- to weigh the potential child's future interests
- in her decision whether to continue the pregnancy.
-
- Or does "free choice" really mean "choice without cost," to you?
-
- Either (1) women should be treated as responsible and competent; or
- (2) they shouldn't.
-
- Don
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