Word: consent
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Council members left in a "grey area" those cases in which the initiator "fails to elicit consent resulting in the physical or psychological harm of the victim." They dubbed this new category of sexual crime "sexual negligence"--those cases in which the alleged victim expressed neither consent nor lack of consent...
...COUNCIL members who suggested the change recognized that silence does not indicate consent. Separation of these cases opens a door for insensitive judges (in this case, Harvard Ad Board members) to interpret the standard more broadly--perhaps even to excuse the crime due to lack of dissent...
...easy to do what the U.C. and the Salient did, which was to assume that because the Date Rape Task Force's recommendation called for the initiator of sex to acquire consent from his or her partner before intercourse, unfair burdens were placed on men and not women. Reeder wrote in her article that while "ideally, no man would have sex with a woman unless he is certain that she wants to do it," the Task Force's recommendation that men ask before engaging in sex is a "call for male sensitivity" that is "a moral command, not a legal...
Here, above all, is where the newly proposed definition is attempting to expand the current one. While the Date Rape Task Force did wish to have an even broader definition of rape, one in which any sexual encounter that did not have explicit consent of both parties would constitute rape, this definition was deemed too strict to be feasibly instituted. To be politically blunt, such a definition would never have passed the UC full council...
...Hand: Clinton says he opposes any laws requiring teens to get parental consent before seeking an abortion. . . On the Other Hand: In 1989 Clinton signed a state law requiring minors to notify one parent before getting an abortion. The law has a provision allowing a teen to petition a court to decide whether she is capable of making a decision on her abortion without parental advice...