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- From: bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw)
- Subject: Re: Moral turpitude
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:27:04 GMT
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- In <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.
-
- It's OK, I just did.
-
- >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.
-
- Hmm? But as Don said, he took precautions and has little reason
- to suppose he is a father. Of course, I haven't quite figured
- out how he now suddenly knows he is a father, unless the lady
- in questions takes him to court. Then I guess it is up to the
- court to make a sensible and humane decision (Yeah, and hell
- might freeze over too).
-
- >I am not prepared to apply that claim to *all* parental rights.
- >(Happy? No, probably not.)
- >--
-
- > -- Michal
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Of course there's no reason!
-
- Bob.
-