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- From: beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
- Subject: Re: Moral turpitude
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:32:34 GMT
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- In article <1h7q2vINNk17@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
- >
- >>Yes! And you and Bob Blackshaw seem to want to punish
- >>"moral turpitude" (eg. not knowing a woman is pregnant!)
- >>by denying parental rights to men.
- >
- >Not quite right for me. I won't speak for Bob.
- >
- >I'm not out to *punish* anyone. However, I feel that if
- >a man doesn't bother to find out about the *birth* (note: not
- >necessarily the pregnancy) then he has forfeited his right
- >to stop an adoption.
-
- "Doesn't bother." Back to square one.
-
- Michal, you started with checking to see if she's pregnant,
- you included bothering her friends to see if she's pregnant,
- now you retreat to "bother to find out about the birth."
-
- How does he "bother" to do so; how much effort is required
- (eg. must he fly 3000 miles to peruse all birth records in New York
- in September, 1993?); and is it not a moral invasion of privacy to
- track a woman's medical records and gynecologists?
-
- I maintain he has a right to know if she gave birth to *his* child
- (especially if she gives it up for adoption), not whether she is pregnant
- and/or gave birth to *some* child. You're too Orwellian for me.
-
-
- >I am not prepared to apply that claim to *all* parental rights.
- >(Happy? No, probably not.)
-
- Absolutely not.
-
- Don
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