Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Equal access to pleasure Message-ID: <1578@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 12:55:29 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1578 Posted: Sat Aug 24 12:55:29 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 03:12:10 EDT References: <661@ttidcc.UUCP> <14939@mgwess.UUCP> <396@mhuxr.UUCP> <888@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 33 > As Mr. Simon points out, their is a biological inequality at work here. > As Mr. Pete Wilson says in article 1705, this inequality is not the fault > of the Government, or of men in general. The Government, yea, even the > Government of the hated-in-Cambridge-Mass President Ronald Reagan, is > going to great lengths and expense to track down fathers and make them > pay, even to an extent that worries civil-libertarians. (Thought your > tax return and Social Security number were "private," huh? Big Brother > is after you, and he'll make you pay Momma to keep 2-year-old Junior > alive. I mean, Junior is not a very "independent" human being, since > he would die in a week unless others, i.e., Father, are imposed upon > to feed and shelter him, but good old Uncle Sam wants even the dependent > to go on living.) [ROSENBLATT] Amazing how Rosenblatt speaks of disdain with perhaps the only honorable thing the Reagan administration has done in this (or perhaps any) area: enforce child support laws. While asserting that "if it's legal, it must be right" in *other* cases. Hmmmm.... > Mr. Simon here ably demonstrates the linkage between extreme feminism > and abortion. If there is an inequality, that inequality is _per se_ > an injustice. And if the only way, or rather, what Mr. Simon believes > is the only way at tolerable cost, to establish equality involves the > messy and, to Matt Rosenblatt and many other men and women, abhorrent > destruction of little fetuses, that's just too bad. If the only way to ensure that everyone pays their fair share into a government is to go through the messy, abhorrent process of taxation and enforcement, perhaps we should stop doing it. This makes as much sense as his argument. "Extreme" feminism? (We've seen that to Matt any feminism is extreme, so I think we can understand this use of the term.) -- "Meanwhile, I was still thinking..." Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr