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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: To Breed or Not to Breed - Part I
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Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 04:00:21 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 26 04:00:21 1984
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On the question of a "woman who decides that she wants to get preg-
nant and is not involved in an ongoing relationship with a man."
I confine my comments to one of the three possible approaches given:
	
>  3. A non-arrangement with a male friend (*SEDUCTION*).
>...
>	Issues:		Is there something morally/ethically wrong with 
>			not being honest about wanting to get pregnant?
>			If the male is willing to be seduced, at what point
>			does the sperm cease to be a gift and becomes some-
>			thing which is taken from him unwittingly?

I think you can answer this one easily by trying various analogies.  As
Moira points out, it IS seduction.  It's "using" a man, in a pretty
depersonalized sense, for the woman to achieve a goal which is purely her
own; in fact, she's denying the man any opportunity to participate.

Would any woman who has been "fast-talked" or "coaxed" into bed against her
better thoughts care to comment on the phrase "...willing to be seduced"?
I think that it's a non-sequitur; it's sort of like being "...willing to be
brainwashed."

Shouldn't a man's thoughts about the responsibilities of creating a child
be taken into account?  (There are men who DON'T care, so why tromp on
those who might?)
-- 
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