From: matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt)
Newsgroups: misc.legal
Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal: Illegitimate-conception Tax
Summary: This tax will save girls' lives.
Keywords: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Date: 25 Jan 93 15:34:59 GMT
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Lab, APG MD.

In article <1993Jan22.145159.14134@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org 
(Kevin Darcy) writes:

>Illegitimate conception is a major cause of illegitimate birth, yes?
>And illegitimate children are more susceptible to social ills, are they
>not?  How does this Tax punish "the wrong people", then?  Prevention would
>seem to be a more prudent path than the half-assed "cure" for the problem
>we have now, which is quite obviously a failure.   [Kevin Darcy]

A tax on illegitimate conception would be an incentive to people 
to change their sexual behavior in one of two ways: either refrain
from fornication, or make careful use of birth control.  The former
change would surely cut down on the number of girls now getting
infected with AIDS, and the latter -- if the birth control method
employed is the widely-touted condom (i.e., scumbag) -- would also
tend in that direction.

Where are girls and ladies getting AIDS from today?  Well, this table is
reprinted from one last year's periodic CDC summaries on "sci.med.aids":

Table 5.   Adult/adolescent AIDS cases by sex, exposure category, and 
  race/ethnicity, reported through March 1992, United States

                                     White, not      Black, not 
                                     Hispanic        Hispanic        Hispanic 
 FEMALE 
 EXPOSURE CATEGORY                    No.   (%)       No.   (%)       No. (%)
 
Injecting drug use                 2,409  (41)     6,569  (55)     2,304 (50)
 
Hemophilia/coagulation disorder       29   (0)        10   (0)         3  (0) 

Heterosexual contact:              1,836  (31)     4,088  (34)     1,784 (39)
 
    Sex with injecting drug user        926           2,415           1,407 
    Sex with bisexual male              360             232              81 
    Sex with person with hemophilia      84              10               4 
    Born in Pattern-II country            5             750               3 
    Sex with person born
      in Pattern-II country              11              64               2 
    Sex with transfusion recipient
      with HIV infection                110              29              31 
    Sex with person with HIV
      infection, risk not specified     340             588             256 

Receipt of blood transfusion, 
    blood components, or tissue   1,104   (19)       368   (3)       232  (5)
 
Other/undetermined                  455    (8)       896   (8)       305  (7)
Female subtotal                   5,833  (100)    11,931 (100)     4,628(100)
 
Now, Mr. Darcy's tax won't do anything to help the junkies or the 
unfortunate victims of bad blood.  But notice that about a third
of female victims get AIDS from "heterosexual contact."  And over
half of these girls -- indeed, about 80% of the Hispanic girls --
got it by having sex with a junkie.  My guess is that not too many 
of these pairings with "injecting drug users" are instances of 
Holy Matrimony.  Something tells me that these are non-marital, 
"Studs'n'Sluts" relationships -- the very relationships that Mr.
Darcy's tax would tend to discourage.

In plain, simple language, discouraging fornication will save
girls' lives.  Ken Darcy's proposed tax will save girls' lives,
and for that reason alone, I support his proposal.

					-- Matt Rosenblatt
                                        (matt@amsaa.brl.mil)

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