02-02-2005, 06:05 PM
Why should a prostitute not be permitted the benefit of maximum hour regulations, workplace safety regulations and minimum wage laws? Your slippery slope argument is misplaced.
Let me try to rephrase it. A government might let someone work as a sex slave, but won't let them work 90 hours at a shoe factory for $.50 an hour, or 40 hours at an unsafe uranium mine for $1000 an hour. Which is a worse working condition, and who makes that decision? Obviously the government in question makes that decision, and I am merely voicing my disagreement with their opinion on the matter.
Your example of a secretary at an abortion clinic does not seem relevent because although the job could be considered immoral, the working conditions would be relatively equivalent to any other secretary job. An actual surgeon being requested by an abortion clinic, or some sort of fetus disposal job, would be a better comparison, if you really want to open that ugly topic. However, my concerns about the legality of abortion are a lot more about the fetuses who don't have a choice in the matter than anyone who works in that profession. On the list of things I'd like to see criminalized worldwide, abortion is about 10 trillion times higher in priority than prostitution :rolleyes:
Let me try to rephrase it. A government might let someone work as a sex slave, but won't let them work 90 hours at a shoe factory for $.50 an hour, or 40 hours at an unsafe uranium mine for $1000 an hour. Which is a worse working condition, and who makes that decision? Obviously the government in question makes that decision, and I am merely voicing my disagreement with their opinion on the matter.
Your example of a secretary at an abortion clinic does not seem relevent because although the job could be considered immoral, the working conditions would be relatively equivalent to any other secretary job. An actual surgeon being requested by an abortion clinic, or some sort of fetus disposal job, would be a better comparison, if you really want to open that ugly topic. However, my concerns about the legality of abortion are a lot more about the fetuses who don't have a choice in the matter than anyone who works in that profession. On the list of things I'd like to see criminalized worldwide, abortion is about 10 trillion times higher in priority than prostitution :rolleyes: