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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.235056.14349@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1993Jan3.020013.9981@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <72831@cup.portal.com> <C0KED8.4A0@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 23:50:56 GMT
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- In article <C0KED8.4A0@news.cso.uiuc.edu> parker@ehsn21.cen.uiuc.edu (Robert S. Parker) writes:
- >Patrick_Andrew_Barnes@cup.portal.com writes:
- >
- >>I find it funny, and as a potential father in the future, sad that several
- >>pro choice people jumped on Edward Simond's back when he said that a woman
- >>got HERSELF pregnant, yet turn around and vehemently state that it is the
- >>woman's natural right to have an abortion. C J even went so far as to
- >>claim nobody was involved but the mother and her doctor. The prevailing
- >>attitude seems to be that the father DOES have responsibility for the
- >>pregnancy, DOES have responsibility for supporting the child, but DOESN'T
- >>have any say in the matter of whether that pregnancy is continued or not.
- >
- >Well, of course. The father doesn't have anything to do with *continuing*
- >the pregnancy, but he has a pretty big part in *starting* it. When you
- >think about it, is doesn't sound quite so inconsistent.
-
- It _is_ inconsistent, however, to bill a man, not only for a pregnancy
- which was STARTED by him (for which the appropriate "bill" is the cost of
- an abortion and/or associated medical costs), but also CONTINUED for 9 months,
- without his consent, and maybe even without his knowledge. Sounds like an
- overbilling to me.
-
- - Kevin
-
