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abortion? prostitution?
My own mother was raped at 30-something, faked having cancer and left the rest of us kids with relatives, gave gave up the child for adoption and kept the secret for 40 years -- so it's not as though I haven't thought about the issue. Her life would have been so much simpler if abortion had been legal in those days. I don't know if she'd have made that choice. I could not choose abortion for myself, but feel I have no right to made such a decision for anyone else, nor should the government make that decision.
As for prostitution, it might be safer for everyone concerned if it were legalized and regulated at least by health officials.
posted by
Pat_B
on July 18, 2005 at 2:33 PM
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Rats. Correction: AnnAndBenjamin ;P Naptime!
posted by
GuiltyDoc
on April 28, 2005 at 10:38 AM
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I believe that there never is a one-size-fits-all in real life, but for the sake of society laws and norms have to be established. Diversity in the world is the spice of Planet Earth (in this context the most obvious example would be to compare the Netherlands and the Vatican) but that is being threatened by globalization and the increasing homogeneity of culture and values thanks to the media.
A society's laws should ideally reflect the maturity and level of evolvement of its inhabitants in the sense that the higher level of consciousness an individual is at, the more s/he should be allowed to choose and take full responsibility for his/her decisions. Choose not the country's middle class as a sample (someone please help me out on who said this: morals are for the middle-class - the rich are above them and the poor can't afford them) but, like annandbenjamin (hope I got the spelling right :) ) pointed out, as there are real financial considerations to these issues let the less well-off, the people who are actually affected by these laws the most, decide. It is ironic that often the people who make the rules are the people most removed from the actual real-life consequences of these rules. Ivory-tower mentalities and all that.
Having said that, I personally believe in the lowest common denominator (paradoxically speaking - assuming the best of people in the worst case scenario): choice for the people; therefore, though I am personally against abortion in most cases (I believe prostitution is merely a by-product of more serious issues), I say that from a legal perspective, both prostitution and abortion, within limits, should be made legal.
I hope this makes sense....then again, it's a blog, not an essay :)
posted by
GuiltyDoc
on April 28, 2005 at 10:37 AM
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Most of the time, money is the issue that decides. People need to live out their lives the best way they can.
(Ben)
posted by
A-and-B
on April 8, 2005 at 8:35 PM
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