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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Subject: Re: Socialism for Women (was Re: Child Support)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.193005.25139@netcom.com>
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- References: <misdeva-111192175853@morse-college-kstar-node.net.yale.edu> <Bxo11L.9yp@cs.psu.edu> <misdeva-161192203834@morse-college-kstar-node.net.yale.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:30:05 GMT
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- In article <misdeva-161192203834@morse-college-kstar-node.net.yale.edu> misdeva@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu (Devjani Mishra) writes:
- >In article <Bxo11L.9yp@cs.psu.edu>, beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
- >wrote:
- >>
- >> >In article <misdeva-111192175853@morse-college-kstar-node.net.yale.edu> misdeva@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu (Devjani Mishra) writes:
- >> >>In article <BxJ8rF.J63@cs.psu.edu>, beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
- >> >>wrote:
- >
- >> >> Do you have any trouble extending "protections"'s iron fist
- >> >> into the public treasury to "protect" the womb rather than
- >> >> what's in it -- ie., to pay for abortions?
- >> >
- >> >Abortion is a medical procedure. If I have to pay for appendectomies, I
- >> >should have to pay for abortions.
- >>
- >> Abortion is, in general, an elective medical procedure.
- >
- >What about those abortions that are not elective? Generally, those aren't
- >covered either.
- >
- >>
- >> Do people have a right to demand that the government pay for face-lifts?
- >>
- >> Is the government responsible for paying for appendectomies
- >> or are the insurance companies responsible?
- >
- >Medicare and Medicaid are government structures. The insurance companies
- >(and I have dealt extensively with health insurance as a clinical
- >bookkeeper, so I'm sure about this) don't have to pay things if they decide
- >they don't want to. They especially don't have to pay if you are not
- >insured.
-
- Worse than that, they are often refusing payment and dropping coverage
- for those they have insured, because they make a claim. At least if the
- news coverage on this has been correct.
-
- And they often will not pay a valid claim till you take them to court.
- Then some lawyer gets a third of it (more or less). This from direct
- experience.
-
- >>
- >> > I didn't get to keep my tax dollars
- >> >from being used to kill Iraqis, did I?
- >>
- >> No, I assume you didn't.
- >>
- >> And you also weren't able to stop your tax dollars from paying for
- >> draft-registration to enable sacrificing men quickly in time of need.
- >>
- >> It seems like this is precisely an example of your "iron fist" metaphor.
- >>
- >> You object to an "iron fist" on a woman's womb, but do you object
- >> to an "iron fist" on a man's balls?
- >>
- >> Is it wrong to object, period?
- >
- >In a society as pluralistic as ours, I don't think it's plausible to allow
- >objections. If each taxpayer were given the chance to make a laundry list
- >of everything he/she did not wish to pay for, there would be no federal and
- >potentially no state gov't. (That may not be such a bad thing - hmmm...:)
- >)
-
- While I agree in general, public opinion should be a factor in deciding
- what should be done with public funds. Not on a person-by-person basis,
- and not as a means of tromping on individual rights and freedoms that
- some SIG may have a problem with.
-
- >> >> I'd be happier with your socialism if it meant I, a man,
- >> >> could retire to raise my children if I felt like it -- and
- >> >> you'd foot the bill for my "freedom to choose."
- >> >
- >> >Look carefully. I didn't say "let's socialize child care".
- >>
- >> You said, "Someone has to pay for it, all of it."
- >>
- >> You implied that "people, parents, taxpayers, all" are responsible
- >> for children.
- >>
- >> Don
- >> --
- >> beaver@cs.psu.edu Opinions from the PC-challenged
- >
- >Just as we are responsible for the rest of society. Or don't we need to
- >worry about children's welfare?
-
- And I suspect that those who think that the childs welfare will be
- guarenteed by making parents infinitely liable for things that they
- have no control over will be sadly mistaken. The kids cannot be secure
- unless the parents are secure. And it takes no more than the -claim-
- of child molestation to destroy the career of a parent.
-
- Parents cannot give their children what they do not themselves have.
- The way to protect the children is to protect the parents.
-
- Note, this does not mean that convicted child molesters (etc) should
- be supported in parenting roles.
-
- > /- Devjani Mishra, Yale University
- > / / misdeva@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu
- > ___/ _ _ _ ___ diva@minerva.cs.yale.edu
- > / / / | / / /
- >/__/_ /_ |/ /__/_ "What's right is what's left when everything
- > else is wrong." - Robin Williams
-
- Rich
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- payner@netcom.com
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