Feb 26
Jeanette Friedmancommentary, domestic violence, feminism, law, women in america
By doing an end run around Roe v. Wade, States and the Feds are making incest legal by redefining its victims as minors only.by Jeanette FriedmanIn the Soprano state where vice is nice, incest is best and legal among consenting adults. It is incredible that in New Jersey, where Governor Chris Christie and Congressmen Chris Smith and Scott Garrett are political paragons of virtue, incest among consenting adults is perfectly legal, but therapeutic abortions to save the life of the mother wouldn't be if those same men have their way.This is the same state that arrogantly cut $1 billion from education, and who knows
how much more from programs that provide women with low cost screenings for reproductive diseases, including ovarian, cervical and breast cancer and programs that provide children with food. Looks like the language in HR 3, HR 217, and HR 358, Congressional bills designed to do an end run around Roe v. Wade, was born in New Jersey. It's also a sneaky way to make incest legal in America, since all three bills state incest only applies to people under 18.
New Jersey does not apply any penalties when both parties engaged in incest are 18 years of age or older. The county prosecutor I spoke to, who stayed on background, wouldn't say outright that it was legal and kept referring to sexual assault. He asked me to read the sexual assault statute, and I kept asking, "What if the victim doesn't understand that this is sexual assault? What if Daddy is in control?" There was no comment--but they won't prosecute if the victim is 18+.A 2006 Harvard Law Review article said it all: "Inbred Obscurity: Improving Incest Laws in the Shadow of the 'Sexual Family'". Harvard Law Review. June 2006.
Get it here. It's legal in France, Belgium, and in Brazil from the age of 14. But you can get up to life in prison for it in Ireland. The Irish understand that incest is always rape.
There are plenty of people who say it's not a problem, especially the Libertarians. Even Supreme Court Justice Arthur Kennedy says it's no one's business. ..Amazing how they keep their noses in women's private parts, but no one's permitted to stick noses into
their crotches. They clearly understand the uses of power.I wrote
"What do you mean it's not rape?" because
people are inserting the word forcible in front of the word rape for legal purposes--as if rape is not a forcible act, with or without the use of threats, weapons or drugs. Everyone knows it's all about power and has nothing to do with sex. That's why rape is used as a weapon of war. Imagine, if you aren't marked up or if you've been drugged,
you won't be a victim, you'll be an accuser, In Georgia, at least, they want to go that route, and Rep. Bobby Franklin, a Republican, would make all abortions, described as "prenatal murder," illegal based on the belief that all life begins at conception.
Miscarriages in Georgia will become felonies if the mother cannot prove there was no "human involvement." Unlike New Jersey,
at least, in Georgia, incest is still a crime at any age--until the Feds make it legal.
America has lost its collective mind: they are legalizing incest while they send women back to the stone age.
Move-on did a PSA with Lisa Edelstein of HOUSE (like young people watch it, not!) and it ends with a lone wire clothes hanger in the closet. How many women under 40 know what that hanger is for? How many of them can even imagine what it was like before Roe V. Wade?
We're talking pregnancies resulting from incest, rape, or affected by drugs and disease that result in non-viable fetuses... As a result, some hospitals will let women die. Creating non-viable fetuses via incest? Those lawmakers just gotta have those babies.
In South Dakota, they debated for days to decide if your doctor or family member could become a victim of justifiable homicide if he or she takes the fetus to save the life of the mother. They finally shelved it when outsiders reacted.
It's not just women's reproductive rights under attack. It's
Head Start, nutritional programs, day care centers,
all those things that help single mom families struggling at the edge of poverty keep families and soul together. Even The Daily Show noticed.But maybe we are mistaken. Perhaps this is part of a Republican jobs plan. If they get what they want, funeral directors will get plenty of work, emergency room and neo-natal ICU units will need more medical personnel. Prisons will need to be expanded and more prison guards hired...as well as social workers, parole officers...and everything it takes, like $73,000 a year per kid, to keep these unwanted and damaged kids in Juvenile Hall for a year. But if it's incest, they won't prosecute because it costs too much.The men who think they are cutting the budget are gutting American values--diminishing rape victims by calling them accusers; by not allowing American women to make decisions about their own bodies, and denigrating their own mothers, sisters and daughters when they legalize incest between consenting adults in the name of ending abortion.It makes you wish they'd hurry up and legalize marijuana.
Mar 15
Jeanette Friedmanlaw, politics
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Mark Shurtleff, Utah’s attorney general, waxed historical, talking about military strategics: “The rule of law is being hijacked to the detriment of human values. It’s a strategy straight out of Sun Tzu’s Art of War, [the general] who wrote that ‘all warfare is based on deception’ and that in fighting a stronger foe, success begins by ‘seizing something your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.’ Two thousand years later, Chinese Airforce strategists … suggested the manipulation of rules dear to larger nations as weapons of war.
“America and the West hold dear the Rule of Law, and so our enemies have met with some successes of late in hijacking moral and western principles to turn international media and public opinion against us…the term lawfare was coined … in the 70s to explain this military tactic of dueling with ‘words rather than swords.’
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Said Goldstein, “The legal system could be an appropriate if not ideal forum to solve disputes; indeed it is better to litigate then to shed blood. However, the problem of lawfare is, at its essence…the concerted effort to abuse and manipulate legal fora and international humanitarian law to impede the ability of the courts themselves to provide justice—using them as a tool of war and not as a forum for mediation. It dilutes the real meaning of legal terms like apartheid and genocide.”
The conference covered Rwanda, the Balkans, Sri Lanka, Darfur, Sudan and the indictment of Al Bashir of Sudan for genocide. It pointed out the pitfalls and possibilities of the uses of lawfare to take back a nation’s sovereign right to defend itself without finding itself subject to the paralyzing fear factors generated by its enemies.
Above all, the conference was a call to arms. Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice-Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations put it this way: “This is an historic event in the breadth of experts and top figures who have come to speak out and among those who came to listen. We put the issue of lawfare as warfare on the agenda for the first time and are empowering those who will file lawsuits to counteract the kinds of suits we are seeing filed against the U.S., Israel and other democracies.”
The Lawfare Project is gearing up to provide additional seminars internationally, to put advocates on notice and assist them in filing appropriate lawsuits to protect the Rule of Law and national sovereignity.
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