Word: consent
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...right mind would consent to group rape, to sodomy, to being force-fed alcohol to the point of stupefaction. Yet defense attorneys have successfully argued consent in outrageous circumstances, especially if the victim slips up on a detail -- saying it was vodka, for example, when the defense proves...
Weld said lowering the age of consent and reducing the requirement to one parent recognizes the number of single-parent families and differing family relationships...
...Reducing the age of consent to 16, which makes the girl only a sophomore in high school, strips a parent of their rights as parents," she said...
House Minority Leader Peter Forman (R-Plymouth), who joined Weld at the news conference on the abortion rights legislation, later, through an aide, said he was opposed to the sections dealing with parental consent...
...addition to lowering the age of consent, the Weld bill would...