Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucla-cs!ucivax!gateway From: farmerl@handel.cs.colostate.EDU (lisa ann farmer) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: birth control failure? Message-ID: <15340@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Date: 5 Jun 91 16:25:05 GMT References: <675716623@lear.cs.duke.edu> <1991Jun3.225158.2825@milton.u.washington.edu> <676071224@lime.cs.duke.edu> Reply-To: farmerl@handel.UUCP (lisa ann farmer) Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Lines: 49 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: zola.ics.uci.edu In article <676071224@lime.cs.duke.edu> gazit@cs.duke.EDU (Hillel Gazit) writes: >In article <1991Jun3.225158.2825@milton.u.washington.edu> twain@milton.u.washington.edu (Barbara Hlavin) writes: > >>Hillel, I'd be most interested in reading your draft of a law >>that would "give a choice for men in a case of birth control failure." > >When the woman discovers the pregnancy she will give the man two choices: > >1) Signing an agreement to support the child. > >2) Signing off all his rights and responsibilities toward the child. > >A standard form, made by the state, will be used. > >If he refuses to sign, or she can't locate him, she will contact a state >agency that will mail it to him, registered. If he will not answer in a >week then an ad will be put in a daily newspaper. If he will not answer >in another week, then he will have no rights or responsibilities toward >the child. How Convenient! If the male ignores the fact that he has impregnated a female he will therefore have no obligation to the child. By this system I can imagine very few males (except those prepared and wanting parenthood) to accept responsibilty. I don't buy it and I won't vote for it. >The expenses will be quite low because: > >1) Most women will be able to locate the expected fathers. > >2) There will be just standard paper work; no running around > to look for people. > >3) Most men will not want to see such publication about them and > a daily newspaper, and therefore they will answer, fast. Who is going to pay for this? The newspaper? The woman? And why would a woman want to announce to the public that she is pregnant and doesn't know where the father is? This could get her into bad situations at work, she could be considered "easy" and therefore more at risk to be raped, if she does decide to get an abortion after it is announced in the paper people will know, etc. Lisa farmerl@handel.cs.colostate.edu "If people want to make war they should make a colour war and paint each other's cities up in the night in pinks and greens." Yoko Ono (_Louder than Words_)