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To: Rays_Dad

"In an age of a woman’s unfettered access to abortion, why does the state require a man provide child support when the baby is born? Consider:"


I suspect the legal difference is that the baby gets rigths after what the court considers to the point of viability... it's ironic from several different points of view.


2 posted on 10/25/2005 6:54:18 PM PDT by gondramB
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To: gondramB
I certainly don't consider myself to be an expert on this complicated question. However, I can't help but think back to the past. Were our ancestors so stupid after centuries of going over this subject? Perhaps, the old solution of a shot-gun wedding was, after all, the best. Baby has two parents. Mother and father have to reconcile their differences for baby. Single people who do not curb their appetites know what the future can bring, and it may possibly curtail their immediate urges; or face the fact that they are making a lifetime commitment when they go ahead with the urge of the moment. Many, many people have managed to control this all-important urge in many hundreds of years in the past. Is it really all that difficult?--and if they couldn't, they did manage somehow to make the best of it, by marrying the person they thought was so great at the moment. After all, there are people who marry for reasons other than love who manage to live a civil life, and raise healthy, productive children. But, consider the alternative. Children who live with the hatred of one parent to the other, who live under substandard conditions because of the hostility between the two birth parents, or at the worst case, see the hostility of the parents broadcast over the vast spectrum of the media today? Don't forget also the interaction of the extended families that is missed by the child; the grandparents, and other family members who are deprived of the relationship of the natural parents and their child. Can an abortion solve any of these problems? Not unless both parties are completely devoid of responsibility, caring, and pride in their offspring. I believe that makes one a sociopath, doesn't it?
35 posted on 10/25/2005 8:24:51 PM PDT by truthpls
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