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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: sexist assumptions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.080054.26491@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom. San Jose, California
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 08:00:54 GMT
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- peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes ...
- >beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) 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.
- >
- >>Man A and man B have acted identically. But only man B can be "fined"
- >>(and indeed possibly imprisoned). Why the difference?
- >
- >Because man B has a child that he is obliged to support. Man A does not.
-
- This is not correct.
-
- Man B had sex with a women who has a child that he is obligated to
- support. In most cases, the woman has the child and the man has the
- payments. That is a rather different thing entirely.
-
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