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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: The EVIL Conspiracy behind this "Men's Choice" thing...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.195928.3556@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom. San Jose, California
- References: <1992Dec27.183413.8950@zooid.guild.org> <1993Jan3.163142.18210@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 19:59:28 GMT
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- rj24@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Robert Johnston) writes ...
- >First of all, the man DID have a choice. He could have not had sex.
-
- First of all, the woman DID have a choice. She could have not had sex.
-
- Well, that takes care of THAT old argument. There's no reason a man
- should be forced to pay because he had sex any more than a woman
- should be forced to pay.
-
- >He could have properly used a condom and spermacide. Key word here is
- >PROPERLY. This would reduce the chances of pregnancy to about once
- >in a couple of hundred years.
-
- Condoms aren't that effective.
-
- >Secondly, the mans payments are quite proportionate to the level of
- >his choice involved. Let us suppose that the mother spends 40 hours a
- >week raising her child. Let us suppose she deserves a decent salary for
- >such work,20 dollars an hour. She will spend several thousand dollars
- >a year on material items for the child. All told, perhaps $40,000 worth
- >of goods and labor each year go into raising the child. At a few hundred
- >a month, the fathers burden can hardly be called disproportionate.
-
- The key difference being that the mother gets all the options; she
- isn't being forced into contributing anything at all. If she doesn't
- want to raise the child she can get an abortion or put up the child
- for adoption. The father doesn't get these options. It's pay or
- jail.
-
- --
- Ray Fischer "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
- ray@netcom.com than lies." -- Friedrich Nietszsche
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