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- From: bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw)
- Subject: Re: Moral turpitude
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:31:43 GMT
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- In <BzoJuB.7AD@cs.psu.edu> beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
-
- >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?
-
- Well, if she knows how to find him, it seems the decent thing to do,
- but how many men leave their business card at a one night stand. I'm
- sorry, I'm being facetious, but perhaps you begin to see why this
- sort of sexual encounter is not 'my cup of tea'.
-
- >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
- >--
- >beaver@cs.psu.edu Opinions from the PC-challenged
-
- Nor are many of us, I imagine.
-
- Bob.
-
-