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- From: matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal: Illegitimate-conception Tax
- Summary: This tax will save girls' lives.
- Keywords: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
- Message-ID: <19599@smoke.brl.mil>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 15:34:59 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.160755.6249@rotag.mi.org> <1993Jan21.181027.21289@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1993Jan22.145159.14134@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Lab, APG MD.
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- In article <1993Jan22.145159.14134@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org
- (Kevin Darcy) writes:
-
- >Illegitimate conception is a major cause of illegitimate birth, yes?
- >And illegitimate children are more susceptible to social ills, are they
- >not? How does this Tax punish "the wrong people", then? Prevention would
- >seem to be a more prudent path than the half-assed "cure" for the problem
- >we have now, which is quite obviously a failure. [Kevin Darcy]
-
- A tax on illegitimate conception would be an incentive to people
- to change their sexual behavior in one of two ways: either refrain
- from fornication, or make careful use of birth control. The former
- change would surely cut down on the number of girls now getting
- infected with AIDS, and the latter -- if the birth control method
- employed is the widely-touted condom (i.e., scumbag) -- would also
- tend in that direction.
-
- Where are girls and ladies getting AIDS from today? Well, this table is
- reprinted from one last year's periodic CDC summaries on "sci.med.aids":
-
- Table 5. Adult/adolescent AIDS cases by sex, exposure category, and
- race/ethnicity, reported through March 1992, United States
-
- White, not Black, not
- Hispanic Hispanic Hispanic
- FEMALE
- EXPOSURE CATEGORY No. (%) No. (%) No. (%)
-
- Injecting drug use 2,409 (41) 6,569 (55) 2,304 (50)
-
- Hemophilia/coagulation disorder 29 (0) 10 (0) 3 (0)
-
- Heterosexual contact: 1,836 (31) 4,088 (34) 1,784 (39)
-
- Sex with injecting drug user 926 2,415 1,407
- Sex with bisexual male 360 232 81
- Sex with person with hemophilia 84 10 4
- Born in Pattern-II country 5 750 3
- Sex with person born
- in Pattern-II country 11 64 2
- Sex with transfusion recipient
- with HIV infection 110 29 31
- Sex with person with HIV
- infection, risk not specified 340 588 256
-
- Receipt of blood transfusion,
- blood components, or tissue 1,104 (19) 368 (3) 232 (5)
-
- Other/undetermined 455 (8) 896 (8) 305 (7)
- Female subtotal 5,833 (100) 11,931 (100) 4,628(100)
-
- Now, Mr. Darcy's tax won't do anything to help the junkies or the
- unfortunate victims of bad blood. But notice that about a third
- of female victims get AIDS from "heterosexual contact." And over
- half of these girls -- indeed, about 80% of the Hispanic girls --
- got it by having sex with a junkie. My guess is that not too many
- of these pairings with "injecting drug users" are instances of
- Holy Matrimony. Something tells me that these are non-marital,
- "Studs'n'Sluts" relationships -- the very relationships that Mr.
- Darcy's tax would tend to discourage.
-
- In plain, simple language, discouraging fornication will save
- girls' lives. Ken Darcy's proposed tax will save girls' lives,
- and for that reason alone, I support his proposal.
-
- -- Matt Rosenblatt
- (matt@amsaa.brl.mil)
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