French Government Says No to Virginity Test
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@renauda said in French Government Says No to Virginity Test:
I would contend that a virginity check is invasive on a woman's right to privacy. Otherwise, I agree wholly with what you have written.
It's only invasive if she does not consent.
@jolly said in French Government Says No to Virginity Test:
@renauda said in French Government Says No to Virginity Test:
I would contend that a virginity check is invasive on a woman's right to privacy. Otherwise, I agree wholly with what you have written.
It's only invasive if she does not consent.
The minuscule libertarian part of me would really like to agree with that sentiment. In the end though, I cannot. It leaves the door too wide open for the perpetuation of cultural practices that have no place in a secular liberal society. The French state is correct to outlaw it.
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@brenda said in French Government Says No to Virginity Test:
@jolly There's never any honor killings of the daughters?
I suspect in an honor killing, there are laws broken along with harm done to the individual and to French society.
@jolly Failing a virginity test, whether the daughter is a virgin or not, is often used as the basis for an honor killing of her. Allowing the virginity test puts a young women at risk for murder at the hands of her own family. I would call that harm to society, and especially to the women. The tests can give false results, so even virgins are at risk.
I think about the fear a young woman would have, because within that culture, she knows all about honor killings. No wonder they try to flee.
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@renauda said in French Government Says No to Virginity Test:
I would contend that a virginity check is invasive on a woman's right to privacy. Otherwise, I agree wholly with what you have written.
It's only invasive if she does not consent.
@jolly said in French Government Says No to Virginity Test:
@renauda said in French Government Says No to Virginity Test:
I would contend that a virginity check is invasive on a woman's right to privacy. Otherwise, I agree wholly with what you have written.
It's only invasive if she does not consent.
Does she have any option to not consent when that will be construed as evidence she would 'fail'? The repercussions for her are enormous, including the penalty of death.
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Yes, let consenting adults take it or leave it
If the man insists and she refuses, that is a good indication that the wedding is probably a bad idea, but that is their business.
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Yes, let consenting adults take it or leave it
If the man insists and she refuses, that is a good indication that the wedding is probably a bad idea, but that is their business.
@copper said in French Government Says No to Virginity Test:
Yes, let consenting adults take it or leave it
If the man insists and she refuses, that is a good indication that the wedding is probably a bad idea, but that is their business.
You don't know many Muslims, do you?
I was only joking
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I personally find the reasoning behind it morally and ethically abhorrent, and on a practical basis, pretty effin stupid. I assume that they are checking for the presence of an intact hymen? Young ladies can lose their hymen for many reasons other than sexual intercourse...
I'm not sure the ban will be very effective at ending the practice, however, and may even backfire. Wouldn't an intact or broken hymen be evident in a standard gynecological exam? Is France going to ban gynecological exams for Muslims now? Or are they going to ban Muslims from going into that particular medical practice?
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@copper said in French Government Says No to Virginity Test:
Yes, let consenting adults take it or leave it
If the man insists and she refuses, that is a good indication that the wedding is probably a bad idea, but that is their business.
You don't know many Muslims, do you?
@doctor-phibes said in French Government Says No to Virginity Test:
@copper said in French Government Says No to Virginity Test:
Yes, let consenting adults take it or leave it
If the man insists and she refuses, that is a good indication that the wedding is probably a bad idea, but that is their business.
You don't know many Muslims, do you?
I got to know several when I worked in Kuwait.
They don't think like you. This is shameful.
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@doctor-phibes said in French Government Says No to Virginity Test:
@copper said in French Government Says No to Virginity Test:
Yes, let consenting adults take it or leave it
If the man insists and she refuses, that is a good indication that the wedding is probably a bad idea, but that is their business.
You don't know many Muslims, do you?
I got to know several when I worked in Kuwait.
They don't think like you. This is shameful.
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@jolly Failing a virginity test, whether the daughter is a virgin or not, is often used as the basis for an honor killing of her. Allowing the virginity test puts a young women at risk for murder at the hands of her own family. I would call that harm to society, and especially to the women. The tests can give false results, so even virgins are at risk.
I think about the fear a young woman would have, because within that culture, she knows all about honor killings. No wonder they try to flee.
@brenda said in French Government Says No to Virginity Test:
@jolly Failing a virginity test, whether the daughter is a virgin or not, is often used as the basis for an honor killing of her. Allowing the virginity test puts a young women at risk for murder at the hands of her own family. I would call that harm to society, and especially to the women. The tests can give false results, so even virgins are at risk.
I think about the fear a young woman would have, because within that culture, she knows all about honor killings. No wonder they try to flee.
Is honor killing against the law in France and how many occur each year?
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@brenda said in French Government Says No to Virginity Test:
@jolly Failing a virginity test, whether the daughter is a virgin or not, is often used as the basis for an honor killing of her. Allowing the virginity test puts a young women at risk for murder at the hands of her own family. I would call that harm to society, and especially to the women. The tests can give false results, so even virgins are at risk.
I think about the fear a young woman would have, because within that culture, she knows all about honor killings. No wonder they try to flee.
Is honor killing against the law in France and how many occur each year?
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My certain hunch is that premeditated First degree murder is indeed against the law in France. No such thing as or accommodation for honour killing even exists in Napoleonic criminal code. Nor should it.
@renauda said in French Government Says No to Virginity Test:
My certain hunch is that premeditated First degree murder is indeed against the law in France. No such thing as or accommodation for honour killing even exists in Napoleonic criminal code. Nor should it.
It doesn't under the Napoleonic Code I live under.
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No criminal charge for murder? I doubt it. Just stop with the BS trying to justify the unjustifiable. The practice of virgin certification in a secular liberal democracy is wholly unacceptable. Full stop.
@renauda said in French Government Says No to Virginity Test:
No criminal charge for murder? I doubt it. Just stop with the BS trying to justify the unjustifiable. The practice of virgin certification in a secular liberal democracy is wholly unacceptable. Full stop.
Read what I wrote.
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Quebec is also under Napoleonic code for civil cases, criminal is all whole other matter. Read what I wrote. Premeditated murder is wholly unacceptable. Full stop.
@renauda said in French Government Says No to Virginity Test:
Quebec is also under Napoleonic code for civil cases, criminal is all whole other matter. Read what I wrote. Premeditated murder is wholly unacceptable. Full stop.
Let's underline that. It's premeditated murder.
Thank you, Renauda.
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@renauda said in French Government Says No to Virginity Test:
Quebec is also under Napoleonic code for civil cases, criminal is all whole other matter. Read what I wrote. Premeditated murder is wholly unacceptable. Full stop.
Let's underline that. It's premeditated murder.
Thank you, Renauda.
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You are most welcome, Brenda. There is no other way to describe so called honour killings other than premeditated murder.
We've even ahd them here:
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No such thing as or accommodation for honour killing even exists in Napoleonic criminal code.
It doesn't under the Napoleonic Code I live under.
In other words in either the French Napoleonic Code or the Louisiana Napoleonic Code (we are the only state so governed) homicide is a chargeable offense.
Now, you can get your panties unbunched, since you now know what I wrote.
