Allow me to briefly respond to Sari Krosinsky's accusation in Monday's Daily Lobo that I believe a man ought to have the right to force a woman to get an abortion as an enforcement of the man's right to control his own reproduction.
What is going on here is a conflict of interests between overlapping rights, and the only way to resolve such a conflict is to organize those rights into a hierarchy. Quite simply, I do not believe that a man's right to control his own reproduction extends to violating a woman's right to control her own body.
The man's right in this case is superceded, and as such, is not unlimited, which means that a man may have to settle for having this right violated under special circumstances; there is simply no way around it.
However, with that clarification stated, let me decry the moral basis of any woman who would run off with a man's seed, as it were, and reproduce his lineage against his explicit lack of authorization to do so.
Keith Wiley
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