Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!aero-c!nadel From: judy@locus.com (Judy Leedom Tyrer) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: birth control failure? Message-ID: <1991Jun04.053815.2412091@locus.com> Date: 4 Jun 91 05:38:15 GMT References: <15263.283c1f6f@zeus.unomaha.edu> <675575737@lear.cs.duke.edu> <675716623@lear.cs.duke.edu> Sender: news@aero.org Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Inglewood, CA Lines: 26 Approved: nadel@aerospace.aero.org Originator: nadel@aerospace.aero.org In article <675716623@lear.cs.duke.edu> gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit) writes: > >The question is if you, personally, will support a law the will give a >choice for men in a case of birth control failure, and what kind of >choice you may be willing to offer to *MEN*. > >Hillel gazit@cs.duke.edu Hillel, It's good to see you haven't given up this bandwagon :-) How's this sound... If the man used a birth control device and if the man can prove that this device was properly used but failed anyway, then the man can legally deny parentage to the child and cannot be brought to court later. However, if the man did NOT attempt to his best ability to provide birth control, he is stuck! That way, if you REALLY don't want a child, you have the ability to make sure in every way possible that you won't have one and the legal incentive to carry this out. (Similar incentive women have had all these years which makes us so much more consciencous about BC than our male counterparts. Just a late night thought... Judy Tyrer