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To: Lane3 who wrote (3870)	1/20/2003 12:51:56 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) of 7720

I'm sure that if the states were given the power to limit or ban abortions again, yes, there would be some illegal abortions. But there would also, I'm sure, be a lot fewer. Maybe people would be a bit more careful with their sexuality. The fact that people will get hurt doing things illegally is not, of course, any sort of logical argument for not prohibiting them. We make moonshine illegal, but people still make it and people die from it. Does that mean we should make it legal and bring it out into the open? Similarly people die from using bad meth. Is the answer to make the making of meth legal? That form of argument -- if you make something illegal people will do it anyhow and will do it less safely so the only answer is to make (or keep) it legal -- is simply invalid and unworthy of intelligent discourse. (If you want to go to extremes, men get hurt from raping women surreptiously because they can't do it openly. So the answer is to make rape legal? I hope we all say absolutely not to that. But that's the same form of the argument.)

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