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From: gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit)
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Subject: Re: birth control failure?
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Date: 7 Jun 91 19:40:36 GMT
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In article <1991Jun7.145856.12680@cbfsb.att.com> ("tricia.edge.wood") writes:

>prevent an unwanted pregnancy.  If a man doesn't want children, he can
>ignore the pregnancy as long as he is willing to give up his rights
>(and responsibilities) to the child.  
.........................................................................
>option for birth control.  An option that she might be morally opposed

I wonder how the same woman who can explain all the moral 
problems that a woman may have with abortion assume that 
most men will have no moral problems with physical abortion,
or my proposed legal "abortion".

Quiet a few feminists do view us (men) as very different alien 
creatures, and that's, in *my* opinion, a basic flaw of feminism.

>There's no way you'll ever see that as fair, Hillel.  I don't, either.

But you are happy with the situation as is.  Men have a destiny - to pay for 
women's choices, and it is not a discrimination, just a matter of biology.

I hope that some day someone will tell *you* how your 
biology is your destiny; only then there will be a 
chance that you will understand how unfair you are.

>-T.E. Wood

Hillel                                            gazit@cs.duke.edu

"When I do it to you it's sexism,
when you do it to me it's feminism."