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- From: regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh,talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: rights and responsibilities
- Date: 13 Nov 1992 08:23:35 -0800
- Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego Division
- Lines: 32
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- References: <1992Oct22.203641.15660@anasazi.com> <1992Oct24.180031.22844@rotag.mi.org> <1121@bug.UUCP>
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- Keywords: abortion, slavery
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- In article <1121@bug.UUCP> stevef@bug.UUCP (Steven R Fordyce) writes:
-
- >If this is true, why isn't it also true after birth? After a child is
- >born, his parents must see to his welfare (or see that he is put in someone
- >else's, but that case, they are responsible until someone else has assumed
- >the responsibility, i.e. they can't just abandon him), and if they don't,
- >they can be charged with crimes.
-
-
- It's really very simply if you take a giant step backward and look at the
- big picture.
-
- When society-at-large can offer an alternative, then society-at-large can
- and will make certain assumptions about behavior if the alternative is not
- utilized. And society-at-large can and will make laws based upon the
- behaviors -- when an alternative is available.
-
- Therefore, since giving up one's children for adoption IS an alternative,
- society presumes people who haven't given up their children for adoption have
- voluntarily undertaken to raise those children, and won't look kindly upon
- efforts to do them in. In fact, if society becomes convinced that you are
- GOING to do your children in, society will seize those children, and you
- have to go to court to get 'em back (and maybe lose). This because the
- OPTION of adoption defines your behavior as voluntary because you have not
- elected the option.
-
- Now, when society does not/cannot offer an alternative, this series of
- assumptions, behaviors and ramifications does not occur. Society can
- offer an option to parenthood, but it cannot offer an option to pregnancy.
-
- Adrienne Regard
-
-