Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cyb-eng.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!cyb-eng!howard From: howard@cyb-eng.UUCP (Howard Johnson) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Are Laws what is really needed? Message-ID: <667@cyb-eng.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 14:53:55 EDT Article-I.D.: cyb-eng.667 Posted: Wed Aug 14 14:53:55 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 22:52:29 EDT References: <509@scc.UUCP> <988@ihlpg.UUCP> <494@h-sc1.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Cyb Systems, Austin, TX Lines: 18 >> 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.