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- From: Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org>
- Subject: Boy, are we ever hearing a lot about "Consequences," a men-only concept
- X-To: MUFFY BARKOCY
- Organization: The Zoo of Ids
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:29:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.011450.16862@zooid.guild.org>
- Sender: Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org>
- Lines: 49
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- muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy) writes...
- >In article <1992Dec18.041148.14307@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larr
- > Margolis) writes:
- >>In <1992Dec17.211922.15114@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu> conditt@tsd.arlut.utexa
- >.edu (Paul Conditt) writes:
- >>>
- >>>Believe it or not, we *all* have the right to choose what happens to our
- >>>bodies. The thing that we don't seem to be willing to accept is *when*
- >>>that choice occurs. The choice occurs *before* you have sex, not during
- >>>and certainly not after.
-
- >>Yup. And if you chose to not reproduce, by using birth control, then you
- >>*have* made your choice.
-
- >No, you have not "chosen to not reproduce" when you have sex using birth
- >control. You have simply chosen to take a "1/5/10/etc percent *chance*
- >of reproducing" (the actual percentage depends on the type of birth
- >control chosen and how well you use it). If you gamble and lose, then
- >you have to deal with the consequences. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- I'll bet the back forty that you wouldn't be saying *that* if abortion
- was still illegal, Muffy.
-
-
- Wharfie was 100% bang-on the mark when he responded to the reasoning of 'if
- a couple has sex, they should be prepared to deal with the consequences',
- with "Don't you mean that when a MAN hax sex, HE should be prepared to
- deal with the consequences?". Hats off to him for daring to stare
- hypocrisy in the face!
-
- This isn't to say that women don't have to face *any* consequences, but
- having the ability to take a short, one-time, $300-500 trip to a clinic to
- dispose of one's parental responsibilities before the fact (Heck, everyone's
- telling *us* about *our* "parental responsibilities," so why can't *I* use
- the same words as being applicable to women?) hardly compares to an 18-24
- year "consequence" of $250,000 or more!
-
- Somehow, these "consequences" don't compare...
-
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