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- From: nuge@newport.med.ge.com (James A. Nugent)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Abortion and Infanticide
- Message-ID: <NUGE.92Jul23102031@newport.med.ge.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 15:20:31 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: ray@netcom.com's message of Wed, 22 Jul 92 20:03:25 GMT
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- In article <85fmkv_.ray@netcom.com> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- writes:
-
- > Try carrying a newborn everywhere you go for nine months. _Everywhere_,
- > _all_ the time. No breaks. You, and you alone, are responsible for
- > the care of the infant. You sleep together, you go to work together,
- > you eat together, you live together.
-
- > Now, let's consider making this required by law. From birth until nine
- > months of age the father _must_ be exclusive care giver for the
- > infant.
-
- > Have any problems with this?
-
- I know from experience that taking care of a baby is a lot of work,
- and it really does change your life. Pregnancy is also hard on both
- the mom and the dad (especially high risk pregnancies like ours were).
-
- You present an interesting analogy to pregnancy. Let's say for some
- biological reason only the father could provide such care for a
- newborn during the first nine months after birth. It would be rough,
- but I certainly would not consider killing my kids to avoid it.
-
- And, sorry, I would not support making it legal for other fathers to
- kill theirs to avoid the burden.
- --
- Jim Nugent
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