No, Brian, that sentence has nothing to do with prostitution, and never did. Even without "Therefore", a sentence remains part of its paragraph. That paragraph calls for medical care, information, etc for minors. Someone might criticize the wording, but you already dismissed Howard Pearce's suggestion that it was only a problem in wording:
Brian Holtz wrote: "If it's merely bad wording, it managed not to get fixed in any Platform from 2004 all the way back to at least 1990. Nothing in the context of these platforms rescues this wording;" We want to write the platform so that nobody miscontrues the meaning; let's not try to misconstrue the platform ourselves. Harland Harrison LP of San Mateo County CA --- In [email protected], "Brian Holtz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Harland Harrison wrote: > > HH> The language clearly states that it means contraception. [...] The 1990 > platform says: "We regard the tragedies caused by unplanned, unwanted > pregnancies to be aggravated, if not created, by government policies of > censorship, restriction, regulation, and prohibition. Therefore, we call for > the repeal of all laws that restrict anyone, including children, from > engaging in voluntary exchanges of goods, services, or information regarding > human sexuality, reproduction, birth control, or related medical or > biological technologies." <HH > > The "therefore" was taken out in the 2004 Platform. This change clearly > implies an intent to make the second sentence stand on its own and apart > from the first sentence's context of unwanted pregnancies. Also, "human > sexuality" is a much broader topic than "unwanted pregnancies". > Grammatically, the second sentence as written in the 2004 Platform appears > to call for the legalization of child prostitution. >
