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- From: kellmeye@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (kellmeyer steven l)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.abortion.inequity
- Subject: Re: Male Choice Revisited
- Message-ID: <BxMw2q.Ivw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 02:54:11 GMT
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- bmc@mayo.edu (Bruce Cameron) writes:
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- >In article <BxI4EI.11G@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, kellmeye@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (kellmeyer steven l) writes:
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- >|>
- >|> I am arguing that abortion should NEVER be paid for by the state or
- >|> anyone else. It should be made illegal. Similarly, men should NEVER
- >|> "be let off the hook". Any man who has sex is as responsible for the
- >|> child conceived as the woman, and neither should be allowed to kill/abandon
- >|> that child simply because s/he is inconvenient to their plans for the
- >|> future. Children are not sacrifices to the gods of expediency, despite
- >|> the fact that at least 3.2 million people every year think they are.
- >|>
-
- >Since you are arguing that the parents of a fetus/child be required by
- >the state to care for that child regardless of the expedience. Then,
- >should the state provide for such services as adoption, social services,
- >etc (after all these services allow for parents to abdicate some or all
- >of their resposibility to the child)?
-
- The child should not be killed, in utero or ex utero. Period.
- Adoption doesn't result in the child's death, therefore it's perfectly
- acceptable. If the mother carries the child to term, SHE certainly hasn't
- abdicated responsibility. Has the father? Depends on where he's at.
- If he isn't helping to take care of his lover and their unborn child,
- then, yes, he's abdicated his responsibility.
-
- >--Bruce
- >bmc@mayo.edu (507) 284-3288 fax: (507) 284-9623
- >Mayo Foundation, 200 1st St SW, Rochester MN 55905
- >---------------------------------------------------
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- Steve Kellmeyer
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- Steve Kellmeyer
- kellmeye@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
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