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- From: peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri)
- Newsgroups: soc.men,alt.abortion.inequity,alt.feminism
- Subject: Re: Privacy -- and responsibility
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 02:01:41 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
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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).
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- >does "free choice" really mean "choice without cost," to you?
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- No. Woman are liable for 1/2 the cost and 1/2 the effort of parenting.
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- -- Michal
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