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- From: regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.abortion.inequity
- Subject: Re: Male Choice Revisited
- Date: 5 Nov 1992 10:22:38 -0800
- Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego Division
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- In article <1992Nov5.022416.3257@zooid.guild.org> Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org> writes:
- >From: regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard)
- >AR> Oh, come on. What you are really saying is to hell with the thousands
- >AR> of years of legal precident our western culture has relied upon.
- >
- >But, you don't seem to object to "saying to hell" with the thousands of
- >years of legal precdents which are to the perceived disadvantage of women.
- >
- >So why object to attempting to change legal precedents which are perceived to
- >be disadvantageous to men?
-
- Ah, the big question. The $64,000 question.
-
- WHO DO YOU THINK ends up paying, Will?
-
- The taxpayer. Now, I don't know about you, but *I* am a taxpayer, and I'm
- not terribly excited about paying, not only for my children, but for ALL
- the OTHER children out there in the world. I don't make enough money for
- that.
-
- >And after all, (allow me to take the Devil's Advocate once more...) if it is
- >apparently true (as many in the womrn's movement say) that fighting to right
- >the wrongs suffered by women, will not only not harm men, but *help* them,
- >then why should fighting the wrongs suffered by men be harmful to women?
-
- Because of the cost to the TAXPAYER, Will. It can (and has) been argued
- that allowing women into the workplace results in a broader tax base and
- a redistribution of wealth without significant charges to the taxpayer,
- and, argued probably less successfully, but there are many factors to
- consider, that women in the workforce has upped our productivity, made
- better use of the US's overall talent and kept us from falling even deeper
- into recession than we have.
-
- You will also notice, I presume, that the 'feminist' bills that in fact
- will *cost* the taxpayer money are pretty regularly defeated. See, the
- taxpayers of this country figure they are doing enough, and don't particu-
- larly care to do any more, even if they feel it rights a wrong, or is
- justified. (Not that I personally feel the justification behind male-
- choice does either of these things, but certainly there are those who
- argue from that stance.) To the taxpayer, the question is not "is it
- right? Is it good?" Rather the question is "DOES IT COST ME ANY MONEY???"
-
- Think about it.
-
- Adrienne Regard
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