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- From: Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org>
- Subject: Re: What's really behind
- X-To: BOB BLACKSHAW
- Organization: The Zoo of Ids
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 22:47:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.022314.513@zooid.guild.org>
- Sender: Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org>
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- bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw) writes...
- BB> In <ByxHpL.A8s@ddsw1.mcs.com> karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
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- BB> >In article <1fol83INN53e@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah
- BB> i) writes:
- BB> >>hpzg0650@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Hale P Zengingonul) writes:
- BB> >>
- BB> >>>Why should anybody pay for a kid he didn't want?
- BB> >>
- BB> >>Perhaps because that kid has a right to be supported.
- BB> >> -- Michal
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- BB> >Then why can a woman give up a child for adoption at birth? Doesn't that
- BB> >kid have a right to be supported by his/her real mother and father?
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- BB> >If you say "yeah, but someone will adopt him/her" then you ignore that if
- BB> >the man walks away someone will also support that child. In fact, the
- BB> >mother can decide whether or not to do so herself even in that case.
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- BB> >If you attach responsibility to the genetic donors to that child then it
- BB> >should be attached equally. If you do not, then it should not be attached
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- BB> Maybe my last post did not get out, or maybe it was to polysyllabic. Again;
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- BB> 1) if the genetic mother keeps the child she also contributes to its
- BB> support. So does the genetic father. Ergo, equality.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- It certainly is *not* equality, if he never wanted the child. What, does a
- woman have the right to not want a child, but not a man? Some equality!
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