Wednesday, 15 March 2017

EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE TEACHING CONSENT (letter to Dom Post, March 16)



Taken as read, Everyone needs to be teaching consent (March 15), literally means everyone should be teaching girls and women to consent to sex.
What it really means I suppose, is teaching requirement for consent - and that consent, once acquired, needs to be informed.

Teens need to know the risks of STDs and abortion, and their consent to abortion needs to be fully informed. They need to know, for instance, that 10 per cent of all mental health problems are directly attributable to abortion.
But how absurd it is to preach ‘consent’ on sex to kids, while practising denial of their unborn siblings’ consent to death? Or “the rights of women” when women deny the rights of their unborn children - and so do men, who MP Kelvin Davis says “need to speak out and stamp out this sort of talk” of rape.
Before men speak out they need to think. About how women’s and girls’ rights are human rights. And that unborn children are human. Ergo, justice demands they have the same human rights, including the right to consent - and if the unborn could speak out, would they consent to death?

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