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- From: peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri)
- Newsgroups: soc.men
- Subject: Re: Michal - Who should protect your rights?
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 02:25:36 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- baba@Tymnet.com (Duane Hentrich) writes:
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- >In article <1jl0bpINNkpb@gap.caltech.edu>, peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >|> I would dearly love to have such public records more easily available.
- >|> A national computerized database of birth and death records would be a
- >|> good start. I don't see that this would violate privacy since such
- >|> records are already public -- but it would greatly improve access
- >|> and simplify record-keeping. Comments anyone?
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- >Since the mother is the only person who can have any chance of knowing who the
- >father is it must be her responsibility to inform the anyone else
- >responsible. Who else could do it but the mother?
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- The question was not over informing the father. It was over making
- birth records more easily accessible by forming a national computerized
- database. Whether paternity information would be listed is a seperate
- issue altogether.
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- -- Michal
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