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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (145500)	11/4/2008 5:09:35 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Its not discussed exactly (in the context of the type of discussion we where having) precisely because its a background assumption. So "where do you here the father discussed?" is a rather odd response to "its a background assumption. The other reason why its not discussed (again in the context of the type of conversation we where having about abortion, I'm not talking generally) its its not highly relevant. Since the man doesn't get to decide according to current law, and since neither side of the abortion debate is arguing "the man should decide", or "the father should get an equal say" or anything like that, it doesn't directly matter to the conversation (indirectly it has some importance to abortion, obviously if the father abandons the pregnant woman and the unborn child than abortion is more likely, but that's not an issue of abortion law, or ideas about what abortion law should say, so its still outside the framework of the conversation). But outside the abortion conversation (and on some occasions within conversations) you here discussions about fathers responsibility all the time. Its hardly an uncommon subject.