NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/talk/abortion/54178

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From: [e-mail] (Kevin Darcy)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion,soc.men,soc.women,alt.feminism
Subject: Re: Parallel situations
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 5 Jan 93 04:51:59 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Kevin Darcy) writes:
>>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>>>
>>>Men have the same rights as do women regarding bodily autonomy.  Since the
>>>fetus isn't growing in the man's body, though, this doesn't help him much.
>>
>>The woman who aborts, or chooses not to, also exercises an ECONOMIC right,
>>Larry. No male-choicer is asking for men to have the same BIOLOGICAL rights
>>as women; we're just asking for the same ECONOMIC rights that women currently
>>have thrown in as a bonus with their biological rights.
>
>What economic right is that?  Are you saying that a woman has a *right* to
>not support her child?

She has a right to not support her _potential_ child, by aborting it. No child,
no child support. This right comes IN ADDITION TO her right to physically
terminate her pregnancy, and I think equity demands that the other person
potentially "on the hook" for child support should have the parallel economic
right.

                                - Kevin