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- From: beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
- Subject: Re: adoption rules
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 14:32:09 GMT
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- peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
- >
- >>A mother +should+ be hindered from placing a child for adoption
- >>if a father has not been "identified."
- >
- >What about births resulting from rape? This is really adding insult
- >to injury!
-
- More diversions, Michal?
-
- If it is so, she should have chosen an abortion. If she decided to have
- the child, then the child exists. And, to paraphrase your style of
- argument, once the child exists, it has a right to its parents. Both
- of them, whether in jail or out. "Insult to injury" of the *mother* is
- not an overriding force for the child's interests.
-
- If she thinks the alleged rapist will harm the child, she can say so --
- and a judge will decide.
-
-
- But I suppose you will propose a law that states ALL convicted rapists
- MUST lose ALL their children forever, whereas convicted child-abusing women
- and convicted murderesses can have a second chance.
-
- Don
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