In this country today, a thousand girls aged 11 and 12 are on the Pill, which as much as anything else is a hugely powerful drug, and which is not really a medicine at all, since its purpose and effect are precisely to stop healthy body parts from performing normally.
No one seems minded to prosecute the doctors and nurses, or the parents if they are aware, which they probably are not. These girls could not be given aspirin without parental consent, but they can be put on the Pill, and indeed given abortions.
This news comes at the same time as the imprisonment of nine men for having sex with a girl of 14, to which Peter Tatchell wishes to lower the age of consent, so that these convictions, like those of almost every Catholic priest against whom there has been any allegation of child abuse, would have been effectively impossible. In practice, the prosecutions would never have been brought.
Think on that when Tatchell is being Tatchell while the Pope is here.
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He can ask the Pope why the age of consent in Vatican City (head of state J.Ratzinger) is 12.
ReplyDeleteGood to see you siding with Mussolini, whose fault that is.
ReplyDeleteAt least we have been spared any of your attempts to spell his name.
Catholic Canon Law defines child abuse as any sexual contact with a person aged under 18, two years above the age of consent in Britain. This is enforceable throughout the world: Catholic priests who breach it are subject to discipline regardless of any lower ages of consent in their own countries.
ReplyDeleteQuite so. Discipline specifically for child abuse.
ReplyDeleteThe age of consent should be raised to 18, as it is in Catholic Canon Law. Perhaps the visiting Pope should say that?
"An embarrassing but otherwise harmless experience"
ReplyDeleteRichard Dawkins on child abuse, in The God Delusion.
He is also on record that it is worse to bring up a child Catholic than it is to subject that child to sexual abuse.
ReplyDeletePhilip Pullman, meanwhile, bemoans the lack of sex in Narnia, and presents his trilogy explicitly as a sexualised and sexualising alternative.
We have an entire drug industry dedicated to stopping the healthy and normal operations of the human body. Now being a rambunctious boy is a medical condition, as are many other behaviors once considered well within the spectrum of normal human emotion.
ReplyDeleteI wish I knew more about the history behind these kinds of drugs. If I remember correctly from reading this blog(and please correct me if I am wrong), the Pill was originally designed to prevent female pedigree dogs from giving birth to mongrel puppies if they happened to mate outside their breed. Interesting that we now use it on humans.
That was the morning-after pill.
ReplyDeleteOh, I see. Thank you for the correction.
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