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To: Ilaine who wrote (42557)	6/28/1999 9:56:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Or maybe men who don't want their child aborted shouldn't have sex with women with whom they are not married, or with whom they haven't agreed in advance whether a potential child will or won't be aborted? Why not the same rule for women? Then we would never need a single abortion except to save the life of the mother. It seems clear to me that you consider the physical effort in sperminating an ova to be the physiological equivalent of bearing a child for nine months and then going through childbirth, and breast-feeding, and all that. I am sure your wife would agree. Not at all. How do you get this out of what I said? You are a divorce attorney - do you think paying child support is the functional equivalent of being a full-time father? No. But I have seen many lives seriously damaged by unwanted pregnancies. A female college student who wants to graduate on time and start a career and inadvertently gets pregnant has the choice of aborting and saving her chance to realize her life dreams. A male college student who wants to graduate on time and start a career and inadvertently gets a woman pregnant has no such choice -- she can effectively (unless he or his parents are very wealthy) force him to leave College and get the best job he can (in Washington, as in most states, a post-high-school student is considered voluntarily unemployed and is required to pay full child support as though fully employed) and may destroy his chance of getting the kind of job and life he wanted. I have seen it happen too many times. All I want is for both parents to have the same opportunity at the life they want.