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- From: beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
- Subject: Re: Moral turpitude
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:25:30 GMT
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- In article <1h8efaINNofc@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
- >
- >>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?
- >
- >Births (and deaths and marriages) are in the public record. A letter
- >to the county recorder in the woman's county of residence should suffice.
- >No violation of the woman's privacy is needed to ascertain the
- >birth of a child.
-
- Apparently, Michal, you've never dealt with bureaucracy. Are you
- really from Israel? (:-)
-
- According to you, to preserve his parental rights, a man must do the
- following for every woman he has ever slept with, and for every
- 9-month period of his sexual life:
-
- . locate the woman;
- . have a public servant do a search of records by maternal name
- (assuming it's still the same!);
- . receive the results before the child reaches the adoptive parents
- (else the child's best interest may prevent being relocated).
-
- (And you'd complain in the same breath about the burden of a
- 24-hour abortion waiting period?)
-
- If he doesn't, he's guilty of "fleeing the scene" (of WHOSE crime?)
- and can have his parental rights terminated.
-
-
- By the way, if there is no violation of privacy, then why is it (IYO)
- a violation of privacy to require the woman to name the father
- (penalty of perjury) and to have the "county recorder" notify
- the father?
-
- Don
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