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- From: misdeva@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu (Devjani Mishra)
- Subject: Re: Child Support
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- References: <1992Nov5.185031@cs.man.ac.uk> <misdeva-061192160711@morse-college-kstar-node.net.yale.edu> <1djsrrINNreg@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Nov13.180903.6062@ils.nwu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:41:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.180903.6062@ils.nwu.edu>, lynch@ils.nwu.edu (Richard
- Lynch) wrote:
- >
- > In article <1djsrrINNreg@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- > >misdeva@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu (Devjani Mishra) writes:
- > >
- > >>> In the UK the government passed a law that makes father's liable to
- > >>> support their children, regardless of wedlock....
- > >>> consequence is that a man can now end up paying for a child that *he*
- > >>> would rather have seen aborted. The man has no say in a process that
- > >>> he can end up paying for.
- > >>>
- > >>> How many feminists would support the change of abortion laws so that the father could request termination of pregnancy (regardless of wedlock)?
- > >>> I assume practically none, what alternatives are favoured?
- > >>> --
- > >
- > >>I think that if the father requests termination and the mother refuses, she
- > >>has to be willing to support the child without the help of the father....
- > >>But termination of pregnancy is a procedure invasive of
- > >>bodily integrity, and I don't think an individual should be able to require
- > >>another to undergo such a procedure. Good Samaritan law supports this.
- > >
- > >There is another way out. We could allow fathers to petition to strangle
- > >the newborn infant -- that way he won't have to pay to raise the child, but
- > >the mother's bodily integrity is preserved. Of course, to be perfectly
- > >fair, the mother should also have the right to strangle the infant.
- > >
- > >< sarcasm off >
- > >
- > >The point is *someone* has to pay to raise the children. It either has
- > >to be the parents (how many single parents can affort to raise children
- > >without help from the other parent?) or the taxpayers.
- >
- > Or the people who adopt the child, or nobody if there is an abortion.
- > If one can't afford a child, don't have one.
- > --
- > "TANSTAAFL" lynch@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu
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- /- Devjani Mishra, Yale University
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