Reply #296: awareness doesn't equal consent [View All]

[fishwax]

if you want to offer an argument that it does, then be my guest. But simply saying it doesn't make it so.

I had chicken for dinner. Eating chicken can be risky. All sorts of organisms can inhabit your body as a direct result. But while I was aware of that risk before picking up my utensil, that doesn't mean I give consent to those organisms to inhabit my body without intervention. I consented to the risk of an internal threat, and should that risk come to pass, I'll deal with that threat however I see fit.

A woman who engages in consensual sex consents to sex and admits the possibility of conception, however remote (depending on what precautions she takes). She doesn't consent to letting a foreign organism live inside her for nine months.