Posted on 05/10/2013 7:38:01 AM PDT by IbJensen
LONDON, May 8, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A proposal by a leading pro-abortion lawyer to lower the age of sexual consent from 16 to 13 to protect “old men” who molest young people from legal “persecution,” is being met with outrage in the UK.
“I do not support the persecution of old men,” Barbara Hewson wrote recently in Spiked online magazine. “England has a long history of do-gooders seeking to stamp out their version of sexual misconduct by force of the criminal law.”
(Barbara Hewson)
Hewson, who made her name leading an international campaign to overturn the pro-life provision in Ireland’s Constitution, was writing in response the Jimmy Savile scandal that has been prominent in the British media since the entertainer’s death in October 2011. Savile was a popular DJ and BBC television presenter against whom hundreds of charges of child sex abuse and rape were brought after his death.
“The manipulation of the rule of law by the Savile Inquisition … and its attendant zealots poses a far graver threat to society than anything Jimmy Savile ever did,” Hewson continued.
Scotland Yard is investigating over 400 allegations based on the testimony of 300 possible victims via fourteen local polices forces over six decades. The police have described Savile as a “predatory sex offender.”
Hewson also wrote of the arrest of BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall, who admitted 14 charges of indecently assaulting girls, including one aged nine, between 1967 and 1985.
In her article she decried the “present mania for policing all aspects of personal life under the mantra of ‘child protection’" and "the post-Savile witch-hunting of ageing celebs” that, she says, “echoes the Soviet Union.”
Hewson’s comments have caused a stir in the legal profession, with the Hardwicke chambers in London for which she works saying they are “shocked” at her suggestion that the crimes committed by the likes of Savile and Hall are merely “low-level misdemeanours.”
“We did not see or approve the article pre-publication and we completely dissociate ourselves from its content and any related views she may have expressed via social media or any other media outlets,” the firm said in a statement.
Hewson was described by the Daily Mail as a “human rights” lawyer specializing in “reproductive rights”. But an Irish pro-life advocate was more forthright in describing her career. “This is a lawyer who took Ireland to the European Court to foist abortion on the Irish people; a woman who called our pro-life laws ‘cruel and unusual’," said Niamh Ui Bhriain, head of the Life Institute.
“Yet now she wants the age of consent lowered - as a reaction to the Savile and Hall crimes. What kind of defence of young women's rights is that?”
Ui Bhriain said that abortion campaigners set themselves up as defenders of women, “but often when we scratch the surface we see a completely different side to things.”
She’s dead behind the eyes!
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Eyes are the mirror of the soul and her eyes are blank. She must have sold her soul to the devil long ago.
This perversion will go hand-in-hand with the extinguishing of traditional parental rights, which is the actual goal of the progs, just as the destruction of religious liberty is the actual goal of those who support homo marriage.
This will happen here unless we fight.
If that is the case, why bother to have any laws?
The same issue came up in Hawaii a few years ago.
One of the rationales proposed (by a State legislator!) for lowering the age of consent to 13 was so that girls from poor families could get out of poverty by becoming mistresses of older more wealthy men.
I kid you not.
These people are beyond sick.
This is just DEMONIC.
I checked this story out on DU. So far, they are as applalled as we are. But give it another generation or so...
Well it could have very well have been stopped which I do hope that was the case this week starting in one American city, Cleveland, OH.
I remember back in the late 80's and early 90's Democrat and mainstream liberals were appalled at the mere thought of gay marriage. In fact DOMA got quite a few liberal democrat votes in the Senate as late as 1996...
Enough sinful actions by individuals and politicians have been committed that should anger God to once again destroy this world. These evil ones think they can get away with tempting God and denying Him.
The various denominations of this world are as complicit in this as are the demonic political classes. The Catholic Church, that prior to Vatican II, was a beacon that shed truthful light on societal ills. Now the bishops, who have helped in creation of a new religion to replace Roman Catholicism, won’t refuse communion to the evil politicians who support abortion.
Most of these bishops are Democrat puppets.
Thinking of the old queers who haven’t been killed off by aids sorting through our youth to find one that will be susceptible to homosexual activity.
It’s enough to make decent beings puke their guts out.
Here we have a moronic non-president who approves of homosexual activity and the wedding of two anus worshippers or two female sexual deviates.
But what if they like 12-year-olds? How about 10?
Some “People” just need Killin’!
God Bless the new Pope.
Why give this perverted freak any publicity???
Correction, to protect old MUSLIM men from prosecution.
Once the Sodomites can harvest the young boys a father will have no recourse, not even self help.
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