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- From: beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
- Subject: Re: adoption rules
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:09:02 GMT
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- rat@erg.sri.com (Ray Trent) writes:
- >In the referenced article, peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >>>>the *good* of protecting the father's right to stop an adoption is not
- >>>>worth the *bad* of subjecting the mother and child to the risk of
- >>>Fine. Will you legally permit a father to abduct a child and disappear
- >>Are you claiming that abducting a child is equivalent to a mother
- >>declining to go out of her way to notify a former sex partner that
- >>she has borne a child?
- >
- >He claimed nothing of the sort. However, if your real conclusion was
- >that "the *bad* of subjecting the mother and child to abuse" justified
- >lack of notification (i.e. nullification of parental rights for the
- >father), then the same conclusion should force you to accept the
- >analogous abduction of a child from an abusive mother as being valid.
-
- Precisely.
-
-
- >If you just think the woman should be able to say "go to hell" to the
- >man simply because she feels like it, why not say so? (hint: ...no,
- >on second thought, if you need a hint, no hint will suffice...)
-
- I won't conjecture about whether Michal is motivated by such opinions,
- but every position she takes effectively supports women having this power.
-
- I find such positions debatable with regard to abortion, but in
- outright contradiction of basic human decency and our fundamental
- societal principles (good or bad), with regard to born children.
-
-
- >"When you're down, it's a long way up
- > When you're up, it's a long way down
- > It's all the same thing
- > And it's no new tale to tell" ../ray\..
-
- Protect the women and children from the monstrous men.
-
- Simple as a flower, and that's a complicated thing.
-
- Don
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