Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:42:15

From: Lizzie Cooke

Subject: Mitigation by adoption

Can I add, with regard to my own comment on this a few emails ago, and in reply to Jennifer:

I'm sorry - my comment was not clearly expressed. I do not assume or argue that "positive benefits exist for all people who experience an unwanted pregnancy" - clearly that isn't true. My point was not about whether or not there was a loss to be compensated, but about the offensiveness of the proceedings to the child and the law's approach to the value of human life. Andrew Tettenborn referred, in an email later in this discussion, to "the effect on a child of court proceedings making it clear she wasn't wanted in the first place", and that's what I had in mind.

And of course I don't think men would be any less likely to see this than women.

Lizzie

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