This is America.
We don’t care about wages, health care, or education. We care about what consenting adults do in the bedroom, even though that doesn’t materially affect our lives in any way.
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Because less government,
And don’t even get me STARTED on public bathrooms!
Because prostitution is illegal. When Roe was still a thing, a woman with control over her own body couldn’t murder someone, rob a bank or drive drunk.
You’re distorting the definition of “control” to create an irrelevant comparison.
That’s like saying “If I smoke weed underground, am I higher or lower than the average person?” It’s just nonsense.
Plus it never even went so far as to address body autonomy, it was just a ruling over abortion on a federal level.
Because Roe v Wade did not establish a woman’s domain over her body, it established legal status of abortion on a federal level. Very specific.
That being said, sex work is about so much more than just a person’s body autonomy. There have been many societal concerns over the decades. I’m all for it, but the legal issues are complicated.
There is also a fundamental misunderstanding of Roe vs. Wade in this question.
Roe vs Wade did NOT establish a woman’s bodily autonomy. Roe vs. Wade established that women had a right to an abortion because their existing right to PRIVACY allowed them to consult and make medical decisions without government intervention.
Yes, that is an exceedingly weak and cowardly ruling, and followers of the court warned people for DECADES that it was a weak ruling, and it made it precarious since the beginning.
But that’s also your explanation for why it wouldn’t cover prostitution. Commerce is not covered by the right to privacy.
I think sex work should be legalized. However, the law and “traditional values” have a lot to say (mostly outdated ideas) about sexual activities. It’s the activities themselves, and the circumstances around those activities, which lawmakers have ruled illegal (or not) over the centuries.
Body autonomy doesn’t really enter into it, because you can do countless legal and illegal things with your body.
Body autonomy is more relevant in the case of pregnancies, because the mother’s life and health are directly at risk. Opinions vary on when life begins after fertilzation, but many would argue a cluster of cells is not a person yet, so the pregnant woman should be free to act in regards to her own body.
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Everyone is in control of their body but it’s not legal to commit suicide.
