In a perfect world, yes: Where the choice to rent one's body to a man is 100% free, willful and deliberate, and not done to overcome need or lack (when it's not done to put food on one's table, pay rent or provide for one's own needs or one's children), then certainly. What a woman does with her body is to be upheld as being her choice.
The problem, however, is that in almost all cases, prostitution is not engaged in by choice. It is seldom willful, deliberate, or selected amid other equally (or even reasonably) well-paying (or ever poorly-paying) opportunities that are before the woman. Often it is performed due to drug addiction or pimps enticing/coercing/threatening them into this lifestyle, wherein they are physically or mentally compromised, and thus cannot truly be said to consent.
So, while I am pro-choice as well as pro-prostitution, I am philosophically consistent in that I demand the latter must be as truly based on choice as the former, and where it isn't, I believe laws and other protections and preventative measures and opportunities must be instituted/created by society in order to ensure that no woman is left to resort to such a practice against her will.
Shouldn't "Pro-Choice" people be "Pro-Prostitution"?
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If it really is "a woman's choice what she does with her own body" then by default prostitution is nothing more than a Woman's Choice.
Therefore, shouldn't the Pro-Choice people be out fighting for the "Rights of Prostitutes to "Choose"?
Therefore, shouldn't the Pro-Choice people be out fighting for the "Rights of Prostitutes to "Choose"?
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Philo-Publius 2012/06/29 17:29:55
As it happens, I support both abortion and prostitution :)
You are correct, taken to the extreme the pro-choice argument would make everything legal. In so doing you yourself are confirming the illegitimacy of that argument.
Obviously no truths or facts will get through to you. So go ahead and have the last word so I can be done with you.
But as the question is phrased, the real problem is missed. You can abhor abortion and still not recognize the moral rights of the unborn, in which case you would support the pro-choice movement. It is similar with prostitution. You can abhor prostitution, but equally deplore government intervention into private activities between consenting adults.
Yes, there is a moral argument. On the other hand, there are powerful scientific and Constitutional arguments as well.
The government does not interfere with the private activities of consenting adults. They can have sex all they want. However, everyone knows the potential consequences of unprotected sex and has free birth control readily available. When they fail to act responsibly, they must be ready to accept the consequences, whatever they may be. Murdering an innocent, yet to be born human being for personal convenience, and to avoid the consequences, is wrong on all levels of measure.
Over 60% of abortions involve coercion and threats. Abortion is often the un-choice. So your good arguments would be just as valid against abortion.
http://www.theunchoice.com/in...
http://www.renewamerica.com/c...
http://afterabortion.org/
but it definitely does not mean that the option to have an abortion should not be available to any woman who wishes to use it.
There is no excuse for killing the baby in the womb.
not everyone is lucky enough to end up in a situation like the girl you took in, and regardless, carrying a baby to term is a huge physical sacrifice and a big emotional struggle for a young girl. everyone makes mistakes, but that doesn't mean they should have to pay such a collosal price for the sake of a ball of unspecialized cells. there are enough babies in the world as it is, i assure you.
You have also bought the pro-abortion lies of indoctrination. The scientific fact is that the instant the sperm fertilizes the egg, forming a new unique DNA, a human life exists.
BTW! We are all just a ball of cells at every stage of our lives.
The supply of babies in the world is no reason to kill even one yet to be born human being. Moreover, why are the waiting lists so long to adopt babies if there are enough already?
i know it's technically a human life, but so is the mother's. it could potentially traumatise a young girl to have a baby, especially if it's the result of rape. is it really worth putting a human being through that, just so that a new human being can pop out at the end, with an uncertain future? women have a mothering instinct and for many they may find it impossible to give up their child (i know i would), so regardless of whether or not the pregnancy was planned they may find they simply can't part with it. this child grows up disadvantaged in life, as does the mother. isn't it better to give her the opportunity to wait until she's ready, and then have a planned pregnancy and a family that she's fully able to take care of?
You are 17 and single. Just don't get pregnant and you will never have to choose.
are you really comparing me to a slaveholder?
and of course babies in the womb are innocent, but so am i, i've done nothing wrong, so why should i pay for the failings of contraception? bring me infallible contraception and then we'll talk.
Having a boyfriend is still single unless you are married. 17 and playing grownup doesn't count.
yes, i would abort a child for my personal convenience. would you give up your life at the age of 17 to bear and raise a child? you might say you would but i strongly doubt that.
Give up your life? How over Melodramatic can you possibly be.
1st, if you're only 17, keep your legs together until you grow up.
If you can't do that, use proper protection as you play at being grownup.
Failing that, take responsibility for the consequences, as grownups should do.
Having a bay and giving to a good adoptive family may be the most enriching thing to date in your life. Selfishly killing that baby may be the most self debasing thing you could ever do.
Enough of you. This question is not about abortion.