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An Issue of Responsibility | by Illiad | 2003-11-06 08:30:47 |
| Not to stir things up or anything, but |
by LurkerMo |
2003-11-06 12:35:28 |
there is something that I think needs to be said in regards to this issue.
The laws (and, maybe, the opinions of some people here) are based on the assumption that a child needs both a father and a mother. For an emotionally healthy upbringing, if not from financial necessity.
The financial necessity is much less pronounced now. Again, I don't know the specifics, but it is my impression that a single mother can get the financial assistance needed to support a child.
As for the emotional health - well, from personal experience, and from hearing about others - I grew up without a father, and I think that I did not suffer because of that. Other than being hopelessly addicted to UF, I believe that my emotional health is OK. No way to know how I would have grown up with a father present, but I don't think I would have turned out significantly different.
So laws that require financial aid from an unwitting father are needlessly punishing. And if they don't include reciprocal rights to determine whether a man should be a father or not, they would be very unfair. To the point of being discriminating against men for the simple fact that they are men.
On the other hand, any law that tries to take away a woman's right to determine what happens to her body will NOT have my support.
The sad, biological fact is, that a woman can easily have a child by herself (using a sperm bank, or just going bar hopping for an unwitting donor). A man does not have that privilege. And no matter how much a man may want to get involved in creating a child, his input is very brief.
The case of a woman using abortion as birth control, and the case of a pregnancy resulting from a rape are too rich for me to want to get into here. They deserve TLP's of their own. |
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