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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON)
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Subject: Re: "rights" to life, and a question
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Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 08:36:13 EDT
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> > ME
> Pete Wilson
> >					But why should not women have the
> >right to reproductive freedom *and* guilt-free pleasurable sex.
> 
> They do.

But you just said that by having sex, they implicitly take responsibility for
its results. I sense a contradiction here.

> >								 Men have
> >the option to walk away after sex, never to be heard from again (some do.)
> >The woman,of course, has no such alternative.
> 
> Really? Ever hear of condoms, diaphragms, IUD's, vasectomies, rhythm
> method, etc.?

But since none of these or any other contraceptive method is 100% effective
and/or danger-free, the woman can be stuck with unintended results, can't she?

> >						  Would you spend the
> >dollars necessary to enforce such a responsibility.
> 
> I'd much rather spend the dollars on that than on UNNECESSARY abortions.

That is a rhetorical statement. I am talking about reality: are YOU willing to
have YOUR taxes increased so that runaway fathers can be tracked sown and made
to pay child support? Are YOU willing to have YOUR taxes increased so that
those who still refuse to do so get thrown in jail? are YOU willing to have
YOUR taxes increased to pay for nurseries, day-care, baby sitters, larger
schools etc.? If not, your arguments on legal responsibility are empty.

> Seems to me there are NO laws which restrict a woman's right to use
> conception prevention methods or to say no (except in some backward places
> where 'conjugal rights' supercede the woman's rights).

But where these methods fail, will she still have the right to make her own choice?

Marcel Simon