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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Privacy -- and responsibility
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.001044.2184@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1jcha3INN66o@gap.caltech.edu> <1993Jan18.182945.22103@rotag.mi.org> <1jg5ueINNko7@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:10:44 GMT
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- In article <1jg5ueINNko7@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >
- >>Well, a woman has a CHOICE over her financial obligation, which she can
- >>exercise for several months after conception. A man has no corresponding
- >>choice. Don't you see the inequity?
- >
- >But is it any *more* inequitable than giving the man the power to force
- >the woman to abort?
-
- I don't advocate that position.
-
- >Is it any *more* inequitable that tearing a child away from a parent who
- >wants it?
-
- I don't advocate that position either. Declining to grant custody doesn't
- "tear away" anyone, i.e. destroy existing an existing parent-child
- relationship...
-
- >Is it any *more* inequitable than
- >allowing a child to go without because the NCP doesn't feel like writing
- >a check?
-
- I haven't advocated law-breaking either.
-
- Got any more straw men to throw at me, Michal?
-
- - Kevin
-