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From: pmd@cbsck.UUCP (Paul Dubuc)
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Subject: Re: "The child of a fiend"
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Date: Sun, 6-Oct-85 21:24:57 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  6 21:24:57 1985
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>Why should she be forced to carry the child of her attacker? The
>rapist committed a crime against her that some women kill themselves
>over (the shame, the fear, the horror of rape). Why should she want
>to give life to his seed that has that gene: the gene for rape! The
>thought of bringing another of HIS type into the world frightens
>*me*, to say nothing of how it affects her. Every time she wakes up
>with morning sickness she remembers the rape. The conflict of abortion
>versus carrying a (very) unwanted child to term has driven some women 
>to suicide. The sins of the parents are visited upon their children.
>In a case like this, the *father* is the one who is guilty of the murder
>since *he* placed the child/fetus in an unsafe place.
>
>aardvark@nmtvax!unm-la!lanl!ihnp4...

Every pro-choice response has seemed to agree that a fiendish child
does not a rapist make, yet here is someone who seems to think it's
genetic.  Are you serious?  What if the child's a girl?

Maybe a jilting by a boyfriend has driven some young women to suicide?
Do we condemn dating?  I've gone into more detail in other articles about
why I think the attachment of this stigma to the child is unjust.  It
is as unjust as if a woman were to take out her hatred for a wife-beater
husband on his born children by beating them.  Her behaviour might be
more "understandible" in some sense, but still unjust.

Anyway, it's interesting to see someone supporting the stigma (and on
genetic grounds to boot!).  I'm glad there aren't a lot of people who
seriously believe that there are genes for criminal behaviour.  There
would be a lot more people thrown into jail as a "preventative" measure :-(.

... what was your name again?

Paul Dubuc