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- From: peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri)
- Newsgroups: alt.abortion.inequity,alt.feminism
- Subject: Re: Male Choice Revisited
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 19:16:33 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
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- >In article <1h622uINN8vi@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >>
- >>If the woman gets pregnant, and gets an abortion, then *neither* the man
- >>nor the woman must "shoulder responsibility for [a child]".
- >>If the woman gets pregnant, and doesn't get an abortion, then *both* the
- >>man and the woman must "shoulder responsibility".
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- >And, in your view, *only* the woman makes the decision.
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- >Thus, every father must shoulder responsibilities as a direct
- >consequence of the woman's decision. Do you deny she makes the
- >final decision, and do you deny she has months after conception
- >to consider it, whereas he has no such thing?
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- Why should I deny that which is patently obvious?
- If a man chooses to gamble the risk of conception, and then loses,
- then the consequences he faces depend on the woman's decision whether
- to bear the foetus which is developing in *her* body.
- >Don
- >--
- >beaver@cs.psu.edu Opinions from the PC-challenged
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- -- Michal
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- Of course there's no reason!
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