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From: moiram@tektronix.UUCP (Moira Mallison )
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: To Breed or Not to Breed - Part IV
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Date: Tue, 24-Jul-84 19:07:21 EDT
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(* Disclaimer: all characters and situations are completely fictitious.
   Any resemblance between these descriptions and reality is merely a 
   fig newton of your imagination                                       *)

Now to the not breeding question:  Suppose that a man and woman have a 
relationship such that they occasionally make love, and a pregnancy results
from one of these occasions.  The woman is ABSOLUTELY CLEAR about her 
decision to have an abortion.  Does she tell the father or not? 

Being one who likes to avoid difficult situations, I think I would be
inclined to go quietly about my business if I thought I could get away with
it.  My justification (rationalization - besides the yellow streak :-)) is
that I've met my fill of men who TALK about not wanting children (or are
ambivalent on the issue at any rate) and then assume that the woman
1) agrees with him and 2) has been responsible for contraception.  If they 
are willing to leave the responsibility for contraception up to me, then 
they should be willing to leave *birth control* up to me, as well.

Abortion flames to net.abortion *PLEASE*.  All other flames cheerfully
accepted.

		Moira Mallison
		tektronix!moiram