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Several real problems with the argument that consent to sex is consent to pregnancy.These people obviously don’t know what consent even means. Consent by definition must be (a) explicit (meaning for the actual act occurring), (b) be positive (yes means yes, not a lack of a no means yes), and (c) ongoing (consent can be revoked).Ask them if consent to sex with a man today with penis-in-vagina sex means I’ve consented to anal sex. Ask them if a man asking me for sex and me not telling him no means I’ve told him yes. Ask them if consent to a man for sex today means I’ve automatically given him consent for sex tomorrow. Obviously to any sane person the answer to all these is “no”. Thus consent to sex cannot be consent to pregnancy, since the woman consenting to sex is not consenting to anything but giving that man permission to put his penis in her vagina today; she is not giving a third party that doesn’t even EXIST at the time of consent permission to use her entire body for a completely separate act from sex, for forty weeks, at great physical risk to herself.Honestly, that’s like saying that if I give consent to give a man a ride to work today in my car, that’s the same as consenting to give his kid a ride to school every day for a year, while the kid trashes the upholstery and scratches the paint. For that matter, since there are risks to almost everything we do, by this person’s logic smoking a cigarette is consent to lung cancer and the person cannot remove their tumor. Eating junk food would be consent to diabetes and the person shouldn’t be able to get insulin. This is the logical extension of their ridiculous assertion.Second, point out the fact that 80% of women who abort in the US were using contraception or condoms at the time of conception. Quite obviously if someone is deliberately taking steps to prevent conception, they have no agreed to pregnancy. They have in fact explicitly said “no” to pregnancy.Third, consent as I stated can be withdrawn. Even if someone is ridiculous enough to claim consent to sex is consent to pregnancy, the woman’s body is not surrendered at the moment of conception. She can say no at any time. This is just LIKE sex actually- if a woman consents to sex with a man and then becomes uncomfortable, she can tell him to stop. Consent is revoked- if he doesn’t stop, he’s guilty of rape.Fourth, you can point out that a landmark SCOTUS case after Roe v. Wade stated explicitly that no person may use another person’s body without express ongoing consent, even if that first person would die without its use. In McFall v. Shimp, 1978, SCOTUS determined that a man could not be forced to donate a kidney even if the other party died without that donation. This was not a narrow ruling, but a wide one: not only can no one be forced to donate organs, but no tissues can be taken from a corpse without express prior permission and no parent can be forced to donate blood or tissue to their own dying child even though they were the ones that deliberately created that child. If a parent cannot even be forced to donate their body to a living, breathing, conscious, sentient child that they created even if that child will die without it, why do they believe pregnant women and pregnant women only do not possess the rights to their own bodies that even corpses possess?

Unless you are legally emancipated, she has to legally take care of you until you are eighteen. That means food, shelter, clothing, education, and medical care. At least in the US.Tell her to show you the law. Bet she can’t.Once busted, let her know that negligence is a crime, and if reported to the authorities, could land her in hot water.Then realize you are sixteen and old enough to fix yourself something to eat, with or without her consent.

Some years ago, I was at a conference, and a magnetic and popular artist would not shut up about how much he detested working with a particular editor. A fan of the artist, hearing this, decided to “help” the artist by “punishing” the editor and putting a tab of acid in the drink of the editor. To make matters worse, the fan wasn’t paying sufficient attention, and put the drug in the drink of some poor woman who happened to be sitting in the same area of the bar. Fortunately, she had tripped before, and understood what was happening, or it would have been worse, but she had a lost weekend. None of the business she had planned, and airline and lodging costs for the privilege of having a bad trip in her hotel room.Police were called, and it didn’t take long to find the culprit, who was arrested; for all I know, to this day, he has a record that follows him around. They also questioned the artist, who, while technically blameless, had been heard by many essentially saying that he wished the editor would just go away. It was only through the intervention of a friend that the police were finally convinced that the artist was feckless, but harmless.That’s where I got involved. I’m frighteningly good at staying calm and sensible, and the artist had dumped on the one person he trusted, who didn’t want to continue to deal with it, and dumped it on me. The short version is that the artist was not arrested, but despite considerable talent, had difficulty getting work in that particular industry after that weekend. No one would trust him because he was considered an irresponsible loose cannon.If you slip a hallucinogenic, or a date rape drug, something designed to produce an abortion, or a valium into someone’s drink, you have committed a crime. The crime is not “offering food,” but drugging someone against their will and without consent. The particular charge might be poisoning the person, assault, or attempted murder, depending on how much the drugged person wants to press charges, and how aggressive the particular police department happens to be. It does not matter if the person taking the drugged drink wants an abortion, or likes to trip, or is no stranger to valium. They have not consented. Even if you manage to avoid criminal conviction, your reputation is a thing of the past.Let’s revisit consent in another context. If someone likes sex and has sex with you once, that does not give you carte blanche to have sex with them whenever you want. See how this consent thing works?If you drug someone without their consent, and something bad happens, something that lands them in the ER, or kills them, your problems have magnified.