[T.B. Yoits]

Once the State declared a mother could legally terminate the life of a child without the consent of the father, the father could also terminate the life of the child without the consent of the mother.

"If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring a pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice." - Karen DeCrow, former President of the National Organization for Women (NOW), telling the court in 1981 that her client should not be held to a child support order on the grounds that the mother had deceived him into the pregnancy by lying about taking the contraceptive pill.

The mother can't even argue he was practicing medicine without a license because he has the same argument she has when she claims "my body, my right" despite it being the child's body. "I didn't give the drug to her; I gave it to my child."

Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" was written in 1729.

[The Antiyuppie]

“Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” was written in 1729.”

A fabulous piece of satire. Unfortunately, it’s impossible to appreciate unless you get a well-annotated version. The sheer density of the work is amazing and I’m not certain that anything like it has ever been achieved since.

The last sentence of the work is the equivalent of the modern “mic drop” IMO.