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From: howard@cyb-eng.UUCP (Howard Johnson)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Are Laws what is really needed?
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 14:53:55 EDT
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>> Since anti-prostitution laws, some said, were not controlling prostitution,
>> why not just set up a red-light district and make it legal in that area?
>> The proposal lost.

> But perhaps it should have won?  This is something I discussed in
> a class I took ...

I would have voted against it.  I agree that protection from violence is
more important than "rounding up prostitues" in the short run, but I'm
not sure that legalizing prostitution would make the situation better.

>> 	If a woman is opposed to murder and she believes that
>> abortion is murder, then she won't have an abortion.

The whole issue of abortion is too complicated to say that abortion
should be illegal.  I'm opposed to abortion as a birth control method,
and would favor *appropriate* legislation to discourage such abortions,
but such policies are hard to come by.