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- From: peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri)
- Newsgroups: alt.abortion.inequity
- Subject: Re: What's really behind this "men's choice" thing?
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 01:25:45 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- References: <1h0h9fINN2i6@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Dec21.021136.21855@rotag.mi.org> <1h425tINNnhm@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Dec22.174726.27172@rotag.mi.org>
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- kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
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- > GIVEN that a child has been born, and taken into the mother's custody,
- > what, besides his participation in the sex act, justifies the
- > imposition of paternity child support on the man?
-
- You've already given the justification.
-
- >>A child support hearing *is* due process of law.
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- >A child support hearing meets only the minimal requirements of procedural
- >due process. The imposition of paternity child support FAILS, IMO, to meet
- >the requirements of substantive due process, however, in that it deprives
- >the man of his property with no rational reason for the deprivation.
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- Apparantly our society disagrees with you.
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- -- Michal
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- Of course there's no reason!
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