When subject turned to the FDA's (Food and Drug Administration) decision on lowering the age restriction for the morning-after pill from 17 to 15 on Fox News this morning, Republican strategist Brad Blakeman became quite upset. He became so upset that he had a Princess-Bride moment as I like to call them, where he spoke at length about a particular word, but obviously didn't know what the term meant.
In the before-mentioned movie, upon hearing the word "inconceivable" time and time again, character Inigo Montoya says, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Brad Blakeman had a similar moment on Fox News this morning when he said the following:
"This makes no sense at all. You have to be 18 years old to buy a pack of cigarettes, and the president is also encouraging criminal behavior, because in most jurisdictions in American engaging in sexual intercourse at 14, 15 years old is statutory rape. The president is somehow saying in if you engage in that activity, criminal behavior, that is okay because the government is going to provide you the out for your bad decision making. [...]"
Obviously, Mr. Blakeman is not a legal scholar. According to the legal dictionary, statutory rape is defined as, "Sexual intercourse by an adult with a person below a statutorily designated age."
In other words, just because a person has sex at the age of 14 or 15, that does not mean he or she was the victim of statutory rape. Most times, such individuals have sex with people their own age and such cases would not constitute as statutory rape as Mr. Blakeman implied.
However, as sad as it is to say, women have been raped at the age of 14 or 15. Apparently, Mr. Blakeman doesn't feel such women should be afforded the option of the morning-after pill.
I'd love to see the GOP air an honest ad in the run-up to the next election, which says, "We don't believe in restrictions on guns. We do believe in restrictions on women's health. We're the GOP - the party of family values."
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/03/1959781/fox-news-teen-sex-criminal/
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Statutory+Rape
In the before-mentioned movie, upon hearing the word "inconceivable" time and time again, character Inigo Montoya says, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Brad Blakeman had a similar moment on Fox News this morning when he said the following:
"This makes no sense at all. You have to be 18 years old to buy a pack of cigarettes, and the president is also encouraging criminal behavior, because in most jurisdictions in American engaging in sexual intercourse at 14, 15 years old is statutory rape. The president is somehow saying in if you engage in that activity, criminal behavior, that is okay because the government is going to provide you the out for your bad decision making. [...]"
Obviously, Mr. Blakeman is not a legal scholar. According to the legal dictionary, statutory rape is defined as, "Sexual intercourse by an adult with a person below a statutorily designated age."
In other words, just because a person has sex at the age of 14 or 15, that does not mean he or she was the victim of statutory rape. Most times, such individuals have sex with people their own age and such cases would not constitute as statutory rape as Mr. Blakeman implied.
However, as sad as it is to say, women have been raped at the age of 14 or 15. Apparently, Mr. Blakeman doesn't feel such women should be afforded the option of the morning-after pill.
I'd love to see the GOP air an honest ad in the run-up to the next election, which says, "We don't believe in restrictions on guns. We do believe in restrictions on women's health. We're the GOP - the party of family values."
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/03/1959781/fox-news-teen-sex-criminal/
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Statutory+Rape
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