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Originally posted by jlc163
1. Give me a way to help her directly. If she's willing to work for it, and she ain't popping out her own football team, I'll see what I can do to help her myeslf.
I point blank stated when they are willing to fight for the things they need for their kids, I'm more than willing to help them, so none of my comments were directed at her.
I'm thinking about some 15-40 people I've worked with since I first started working. Had programs that would get them out of mess of a life they created for themselves and wouldn't even try. Didn't even apply for the programs. I'm talking about minimum wage jobs in an area where there are more jobs than people. All you need is some half-mangled attempt to get a job better than minimum wage around here. You only need 1 person to support a hosehold down here, as long as you can find a babysitter. And I'm talking about with no education.
2. Do they own the company? I don't give a damn what they do with their profits/what they earn, as it is theirs to do things with. If they are cheating the company, or something similar, they need to be taken down any way possible that is not endangering everyone else. If they don't pay the right price for the services, look eslewhere for employment, and use them as experience. If you are in an economically tight area, and this is the only job y'all can get, then it ain't just the working mothers who are in trouble, it's hoseolds of any sort, altogether. Raising the mnimum wage would mean that one of you would likely lose your job, as well.
Originally posted by dawnstar
"then BOTH should have equal say in what happens to the child. At the point of a disagreement, the one who is willing to look after the child SHOULD take priority IF they can assure(legally if required) that they intend to take on full responsibility AND if its the father, that he looks after the needs of the mother while she is pregnant."
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so, what exactly do you mean by this.......
because I am reading it like this......
the doctor decides her job is endangering the child, so the father can make her quite her job, he'll look after her needs. of course, he can't afford her apartment and his, so well, I guess she can give up her apartment and live in his. she can also disregard whatever it is she feels that she needs and accept his assessment of her needs.....
she can become dependant on him.....hopefully by the time the child is born, she will become attached to it, but in this dependant state, she will not be able to break free from him and regain her apartment back...she will be forever his, or at least his until the child is old enough that she can hold a job, of course by the time this happens, she will be pregnant again!!!
[edit on 23-7-2006 by dawnstar]
Originally posted by forestlady
Your rights end when it interferes with another's rights.
Originally posted by forestlady
A forced pregnancy is just more of the same kind of sexist thinking that is pervasive in our society. I decide what happens to my body, no one else has the right.
Your rights end when it interferes with another's rights.
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
d that's the crux of this whole thing, really. Thank you forestlady! (I wish I'd thought to say that!)
A man cannot have the rights to a woman's body because that is HER right.
Originally posted by WestPoint23
There should be a legal binding contract, If you and I agree to have a baby
and you become pregnant you should be obligated to give birth to that child (unless you are somehow in physical danger) and I should be obligated to support you and the child, that IMO is very fair.
Originally psote dby rileyp
I think the issue may be more unintended pregnancy.. otherwise that'd be a very drastic and callous change of mind IMO. [Btw.. I think it was originally called 'marriage'.
Originally psote dby rileyp
In the event of an unplanned pregnancy; how do you propose this legal obligation be enforced?
Originally psote dby rileyp
I understand the moral obligation.. but if she resists.. should she be sent to jail till she gives birth just in case she sneaks off to a backyarder? Thats what it would have to come down to. I've asked this many times before and the question is usually avoided. Perhaps thats why some don't want to address this as the 'shalt not kill' and the 'free will' thing kind of conflict with eachother.
Originally psote dby rileyp
I’d also like to know.. what if a man decides a woman should have and abortion but she doesn't want to? Who gets the final say?
Originally posted by GradyPhilpott
To quote those hopelessly old-fashioned adults of the long ago days of my youth: "A moment of pleasure is not worth a lifetime of misery."
Originally posted by riley
In the event of an unplanned pregnancy; how do you propose this legal obligation be enforced? I understand the moral obligation.. but if she resists.. should she be sent to jail till she gives birth just in case she sneaks off to a backyarder? Thats what it would have to come down to. I've asked this many times before and the question is usually avoided. Perhaps thats why some don't want to address this as the 'shalt not kill' and the 'free will' thing kind of conflict with eachother.
I'd also like to know.. what if a man decides [with his new found 'rights'] that a woman should have an abortion but she doesn't want to? Who gets the final say?
[edit on 24-7-2006 by riley]