When it comes to the pro-choice-pro-life debate, there are several valid arguments on both sides. Whether you support pro-choice or pro-life isn’t the issue I wish to address; it’s more of a logical analysis of laws that contradict each other. Above and beyond every argument that supports pro-choice, the driving force behind Roe vs. Wade was the premise that a woman has the right to make her own decisions when it comes to her body; it was primarily a rights issue. So, given this assertion, why can a woman legally abort her unborn child, but if she has sex with someone for money, she gets arrested? Isn’t it her body? Isn’t she entitled to do whatever she chooses to do with it? Is consensual sex between a man and woman a greater moral offense than having an abortion? If it’s legal for a woman to abort her child, how can our lawmakers justify arresting her if she has sex for money? It’s her body, isn’t it?
2007-05-11 02:51:14 · 8 answers · asked by Hemingway 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
There are two factors which influence the way prostitution is addressed in the United States. The first is community standards and the second is Christianity. While the argument in favor of a woman having the right to do with her body as she wants is a valid one the extent to which communities have or want to host such activity is very low across the country. This creates a circumstance where there is no popular support for the associated government spening which would be necessary to make prostitution a viable occupation: Health Screenings, Licensing, increased Police protection.
Additionally the vast majority of communities push their young men and women to contribute to their community by joining the broader economy in a way which is productive in the long term and affords fewer public health risks. In an abortion only the health of the mother is threatened. With prostitution the people most likely to participate in it will be those at the lowest rungs of the economic ladder and least likely to have the means to seek medical care.
Granted, if it were legalized this stigma might change but each country has it's own values and each must be respected. Remember, prostitution is equally illegal for men, so no matter whose body it is, it's illegal.
2007-05-11 03:10:12 · answer #1 · answered by Knight Dream 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The law is based on a body of decisions which grows and changes with each decision that is made. Depending upon the foundation of the law, and the determination of the judicial branch to follow that foundation, the law either upholds itself with integrity or becomes a mass of the kind of contradictions you are talking about.
America has failed in giving her present and future generations a solid basis from which to make these kinds of decisions.
The laws against prostitution predate Roe vs. Wade.
They have never been rescinded (except perhaps in a few places under certain conditions).
The way law works is that decisions pile on decisions, but the old decisions are never revisited. They remain in place, just as the new one begins to function in the judicial
process.
It's a hodge podge, all right. But strict reasoning can't solve any contradiction. And all organizations show a tendency to add without removing what is already in place.
Maggie
2007-05-11 03:02:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the catch phrase for pro-choice is that women can do what they want with their bodies. However, it has never been absolute. Third trimester abortions, even under Roe v. Wade, are not unlimited constitutional rights.
In other words, there have always been some things that people can't do with their own bodies if the law says so, like take certain drugs, prostitution, third trimester abortions, and the like.
2007-05-11 03:01:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I had a dime for every contradiction in the laws today...
You are correct, as in many cases, those who support abortion like to pick and choose what moral standards they follow... they say thats its wrong to go to war, execute convicted murderers, sell your body for money, but its ok to kill an unborn child... it just doesn't make sense.
2007-05-11 02:55:14 · answer #4 · answered by Ryan F 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sadly, prositution is against the law and having a abortion isn't.
Either way, the two aren't less moral than the other. They both are and they are both stated in the bible that they are sins!
2007-05-11 03:00:01 · answer #5 · answered by SDC 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well would they make a big deal if she filed taxes with the money she received for sex?
2007-05-11 03:48:08 · answer #6 · answered by Tab 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Follow the money...
2007-05-11 02:56:26 · answer #7 · answered by John L 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Having sex is not a crime. Solicitation is.
2007-05-11 03:00:11 · answer #8 · answered by Catch 22 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋