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"Bob Whiteside" wrote in message
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Bob Whiteside wrote:

For a person who claims to be from Minnesota who has so many
strong
opinions
about men's parental responsibility, you ought to understand the
Minnesota
laws regarding women's parental avoidance.

Never heard of it, but then I've only been back for four years.

"Under the Minnesota program, called "A Safe Place for Newborns,",
a
mother
can anonymously drop off an unharmed newborn without fear of
prosecution.
She will be asked to volunteer medical information, but not
required to
do
so. No identification required, no signed relinquishment, no
mandatory
medical information."

So tell me, which do you prefer, having the child dropped off at a
firehouse or hospital, or dropped into a dumpster? That's a very
serious
question, and I hope that you will respond in that spirit.

I prefer having the mother prosecuted for child neglect and abuse,
and force
her to be accountable for her decisions to birth a child she didn't
want.

Which will end adoption completely, since you want to prosecute women
for having a child they didn't want.

Out of curiousity - are you planning on prosecuting the men who sired
these unwanted children as well?


Under this scenario she ignored her legal rights to use a post-coital
drug
to stop the pregnancy,

Legal right, not legal responsibility.

have an abortion to terminate the pregnancy,

Legal right, not legal responsibility.

Yer right. Mothers have NO legal responsibility, it seems.


give the
child up for adoption,

What do you think happens to children under the safe haven law?
They're adopted.

or take the child to term and raise it. Instead, she
chose to have the child and then abandon it.

Safe haven babies are no different from other children released for
adoption.

The choice between child
neglect and child murder is a false choice.

Turning a child over to authorities in a legally sanctioned 'safe
haven' is not abandonment.

Since you seem to think that turning the baby over to someone else is
okay as long as the baby is cared for by someone capable, I am very
curious as to why then is it improper for a father to just leave when
the baby is being cared for by the mother. Under your argument, using
the same reasoning you use for mothers to leave the baby with an
unrelated individual and walk away, fathers should also be able to do
exactly the same thing without penalty or fear of prosecution. It seems
there is a desire to have two distinctly different levels of society: 1)
mothers; and 2) everyone else.
Phil #3