re: #701 Buck

I really don’t want to go there again. I would guess we will disagree on if there is consensual statutory rape. My position is that there is no such thing as consensual statutory rape. MOST IMPORTANT, can we keep this to the budget bill for the rules on when the government will pay for an abortion? Because that is what the bill was about. If you want to say that children can consent to statutory rape, you will find a lot of support here. However in that case there would be no need for a state paid for abortion would there?

I don’t really mean to jump ahead in this debate, but I feel we are going around in circles. If you don’t believe there is consensual statutory rape, then the act of intercourse, without consent is by definition forced, and therefore a violent act..

It seems your definition of the word “violent”: is: if an physical act falls under the current legal definition of rape, including statutory rape, then it is violent.

That’s an odd definition of violent. I would think a more useful definition would be something along the lines of: a violent act is one which causes physical or some other kind of damage.

But I can see why you wouldn’t want to revisit this aspect of the debate.