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- From: bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw)
- Subject: Re: consent to sex == ? (was: Abortion, Caves, Galen)
- Message-ID: <bob1.726254701@cos>
- Organization: Corporation for Open Systems
- References: <aidler.725614614@sanjuan> <1992Dec29.161612.29567@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <aidler.725880734@sanjuan> <ueflmto@zola.esd.sgi.com>
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:25:01 GMT
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- In <ueflmto@zola.esd.sgi.com> cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C J Silverio) writes:
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- >---
- >aidler@sanjuan.UVic.CA (E Alan Idler) writes:
- >|Parents have an obligation to their children.
- >|Since no one other than the pregnant woman can
- >|provide for her child at this stage of his or
- >|her life, whatever obligations exist are
- >|conferred to her.
- >|She accepted this responsibility when she
- >|consented to sexual relations -- unless she
- >|did not comprehend the consequences of her actions.
- >|
- >|Yes, you may infer that I would object to government
- >|impairing the right of sexually assaulted women
- >|to terminate an undesired pregnancy.
- >|All simple statement that she did not consent to
- >|sexual relations would suffice. [...]
-
- >So consent to sex is consent to pregnancy, and eventually,
- >consent to parenthood, according to E Alan Idler.
-
- >Any of the "dad's rights" people care to address this point?
- >I'm bored with refuting it to an endless stream Idler-like
- >idiots, and want to give someone else a chance.
-
- No thanks, CJ. I've already raised my children. If these net
- newbies need more training I refer them to their own parents.
-
- >---
- >C J Silverio cj@sgi.com ceej@well.sf.ca.us
- >"People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that
- >differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute." --Rebecca West
-
- REB
-