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To: FormerLib
There are anti-slavery laws that do protect people from being forced to labor against their will. This is why it was the remnants of the Abolitionist movement that was largely responsible for having prostitution made illegal.

I just don't but the slippery slope arguments used with this subject anymore than when they are used for issues like gun control.

103 posted on 05/09/2007 8:25:47 AM PDT by Niteranger68 (Discrimination against Muslims is acceptable if we are to survive.)
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To: RacerF150

During the late 19th Century, women being forced into prostitution was a distinct problem. What “slippery slope” arguments derive from preventing people from being forced into something against their will? If anything, it works against gun control as it works against being able to do things to law abiding citizens, such as disarm them, in support of some greater good (women were often forced into prostitution to pay off legally-acquired debts, debt payment is usually considered a good thing).


139 posted on 05/09/2007 9:17:58 AM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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