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- From: peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri)
- Newsgroups: soc.men,alt.dads-rights
- Subject: Re: adoption rules
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 08:02:19 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
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- >Do not allow the child to be placed for an adoption until
- >suitable tests have been taken (eg. blood, DNA, etc) and
- >a registry of the kind Michal imagines already exists
- >has been searched. Enact a rebuttable presumption that if
- >the father is found, he shall have sole custody if he desires.
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- This requires the existence of a registry with genetic
- information on all possible parents. Would an individual
- be able to opt out of providing her/her genetic record
- for the registry?
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- -- Michal
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