Trust Women by Rebecca Todd Peters

Author:Rebecca Todd Peters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2018-04-19T04:00:00+00:00

It’s just false that consent to sex means consent to gestate. If I consent to sexual intercourse and I’m informed of the risk of impregnation (my partner hasn’t claimed a phantom vasectomy, say), we can say that I consent to sexual intercourse knowing the risk of impregnation; but this doesn’t mean I then consent to gestate should I become pregnant. For one thing, it’s the wrong party: to consent to a man for him to have sexual intercourse with me doesn’t mean I consent to the fetus for it to occupy my body. . . . Moreover, it confuses the assumption of risk with commitment about what one will do if the risk is realized. To assume the risk of impregnation is not the same as consenting to gestate rather than abort if I do become pregnant.6

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