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- From: peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.abortion.inequity
- Subject: Re: sexist assumptions
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 01:50:20 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:
- >>beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
- >>>Man A's condom breaks, woman has abortion, man A pays no child support.
- >>>Man B's condom breaks, woman has child, man B pays $200,000.
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- >Man A and man B have acted identically. But only man B can be "fined"
- >(and indeed possibly imprisoned). Why the difference?
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- Because man B has a child that he is obliged to support. Man A does not.
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- -- Michal
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