Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!aero-c!nadel From: gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: birth control failure? Summary: Equality means that women equal more... Message-ID: <676070239@lime.cs.duke.edu> Date: 4 Jun 91 21:17:20 GMT References: <675716623@lear.cs.duke.edu> <1991Jun04.053815.2412091@locus.com> Sender: news@aero.org Organization: The Piranha Club Lines: 26 Approved: nadel@aerospace.aero.org Status: R Originator: nadel@aerospace.aero.org In article <1991Jun04.053815.2412091@locus.com> judy@locus.com (Judy Leedom Tyrer) writes: >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. It sounds to *me* just like: If the woman used a birth control device and if the woman can prove that this device was properly used but failed anyway, then the woman can legally have an abortion. However, if the woman did NOT attempt to his best ability to provide birth control, she 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. >Judy Tyrer Hillel gazit@cs.duke.edu "When I do it to you it's sexism, when you do it to me it's feminism."