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World Congress of
Families Managing Director Larry Jacobs observed: “This is insane. The
‘reasoning,’ if it can even be called that, is that by criminalizing
prostitution, governments promote the spread of AIDS. The report actually claims
that women make a rational choice to sell their bodies, based on economic
considerations, and should not be discouraged from doing so. It also claims that
age-of-consent laws violate the right of children to be similarly degraded and
abused.”
Dr. Janet Shaw Crouse, of Concerned Women for America’s Beverly LaHaye Institute
(and a member of the World Congress of Families Management Committee), noted
that, should the prescription of the UN report be followed: “We can fully expect
increased HIV and sex trafficking, more suffering and deaths, and more
underground criminal activity as has been the case everywhere that prostitution
has been legalized. Sadly, facts get buried under leftist ideology. The tired
arguments about ‘sex work’ ending exploitation and condoms or clean needles
providing ‘harm reduction’ have been refuted over and over again, yet the left
continues to fund such efforts even as victims continue to be exploited and
human misery continues to mount.” In 2010, Crouse debated legalizing
prostitution at the Oxford Union.
Justin Murff, Director of Set Free: Now!, a World Congress of Families Partner,
added: “We’re concerned that the report’s call for more sexual autonomy of youth
would give rise to an increase of child sex trafficking and forced prostitution
as more and more young people, including young children, will be considered easy
targets by pedophiles who will no longer have to fear prosecution. Already we
are seeing the age of consent lowered, in some countries to as young as 12, all
in the name of children’s ‘rights’ to physical autonomy.”
In conclusion, Jacobs declared: “The United Nations, which started as a firm
proponent of family values with its 1948 Universal Declaration of Human
Rights—which pronounces the family ‘the natural and fundamental group unit of
society’ and, as such, ‘entitled to protection by society and the State’—has
become one of the principle adversaries of the natural family. On the whole,
whenever an agency of the United Nations takes a position regarding the family
and sex you can be sure common sense and morality contradict it.”
Dr. Crouse is a plenary speaker at World Congress of Families VII—Sydney, May
15-18—and the recipient of the WCF Woman of the Year Award. Murff will speak at
a concurrent session on “Sexual Slavery and the Exploitation of Children.”
World Congress of Families is the largest international gathering of pro-family
leaders, activists, scholars, religious figures, professionals and
parliamentarians, cutting across religious and national boundaries. Past
Congresses have been held in Prague (1997), Geneva (1999), Mexico City (2004),
Warsaw (2007), Amsterdam (2009) and Madrid (2012). World Congress of Families
VIII is tentatively scheduled from September 10-12 in Moscow, the Kremlin, in
2014.
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