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Things to think of before you get married again..
Bob Whiteside wrote:
"Fred" wrote in message . net... 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. Under this scenario she ignored her legal rights to use a post-coital drug to stop the pregnancy, have an abortion to terminate the pregnancy, give the child up for adoption, or take the child to term and raise it. Instead, she chose to have the child and then abandon it. The choice between child neglect and child murder is a false choice. I see your point, but shouldn't we also be thinking of the welfare of the unwanted child? If this "parent" is going to get rid of the unwanted child, then the child is going to be gotten rid of, one way or another. In my opinion, the responsible way to do so is through adoption, but for some reason that I do not understand a substantial number of "parents" are unwilling to do that. So we're left with the unpalatable choices of either the firehouse or the dumpster. Given those choices, I'll go for the firehouse, in the interest of protecting the unwanted child. Not the preferred outcome, but better than finding a newborn child dead in a dumpster. |
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