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- From: jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh,talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: rights and responsibilities
- Keywords: abortion, slavery
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.193843.4750@panix.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 19:38:43 GMT
- References: <1992Oct22.203641.15660@anasazi.com> <1992Oct24.180031.22844@rotag.mi.org> <1121@bug.UUCP> <1e0kq7INN4br@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com>
- Organization: Institute for the Human Sciences
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- In <1e0kq7INN4br@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- I don't think it's that easy to give a 5-year-old child up for
- adoption. So if the parents find that they're tired of the whole
- thing after 5 years and want to call it quits, and can't find anyone
- who's willing to take the kid off their hands, should they have the
- right to abandon the kid?
- --
- Jim Kalb "Not drunk is he who from the floor
- (jk@panix.com) can rise alone and still drink more.
- But drunk is he who prostrate lies
- Without the power to drink or rise." (Clough)
-