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From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Abortion - Men's Rights
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Date: Tue, 27-Mar-84 18:00:08 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 27 18:00:08 1984
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> Sexual intercourse if done of free will contains an implicit contract for
> both parties.  In the case of no pregnancy, the contract becomes null and
> void, but in the case of pregnancy then the contract is that if either
> party wants the fetus then the mother must birth the child and both
> parents are responsible for support.

As far as I know the only valid contracts in the name of the law are written
contracts or oral contracts.  As far  as I know too, a contract is an
agreement between a group of people who are aware that they are making such
an agreement.  In the case you suggested, it seems that if the mother never
mentioned the contract beforehand, and had no intention of ever agreeing to
this type of contract if asked by anybody, then it never existed except in the
mind of the father; so  what is an "implicit" contract?
a nonentity that people use to justify things they cannot justify otherwise.

I consider this argument to be a non-argument, and as far as I can tell
again, the only way you can stop somebody from breaking a contract is to have
some proof that the contract existed - which makes it very hard to enforce
oral contracts btw.  In the case of the contract you mentioned, it seems that
if that contract was not oral or written then it does not exist.  ESP doesn't
count.

Your argument is good enough to make a few people feel very guilty about
rejecting non-existing unwritten unsaid contract, but it does not stand up
in any court of justice.  It is just a non-argument cleverly hidden behind
legalistic verbiage.

				Sophie Quigley
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