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eyesofmystery said:I have friends in Holland and they told me about some of the things legal there. Prostitutes pay taxes like everyone else, have their own union, and if one wants breast implants, the government pays for it - anything to improve the economy is paid for by the government, so if a prostitute says that implants would "improve her company" (the way the government sees it - you're the boss of your company, your body is your company, and the product you're selling is sex), they pay for it. Apparently "high-class" prostitutes can make thousands a week, and buying/selling sexual services is seen as a business deal. Street prostitution is still illegal, but brothels, call girls, and "window girls" (they rent a small apartment with big windows and stand in the window wearing lingerie, waiting for men to come up and make a "deal") are allowed. My Dutch friends support legal prostitution, yet still say "but I wouldn't want my daughter to become a prostitute".
I have a friend who has visited Holland, and she told me that at news stands and magazine racks, the porn is out front and the newspapers are in the back because more people buy porn than newspapers. So people who want to buy a regular newspaper have to dig through the porno mags to find it. She also told me that abortion in Holland is paid for by the government (though in Canada it is too, unfortunately).
As for child porn and pedophilia being legal, I'm honestly not surprised (though I am extremely disgusted) that people are pushing for that, considering that Holland is one of the most "sexually liberated" countries in the world. And people think I'm being unreasonable and bigotted when I say that legalizing gay "marriage" will eventually lead to stuff like this...
Voegelin said:Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg , when she worked for the ACLU, also advocated lowering the age of consent to 12.
Justice Ginsberg and an associate at the ACLU went on to say:
Replacing Mothers Day and Fathers Day with a Parents Day should be considered, as an observance more consistent with a policy of minimizing traditional sex-based differences in parental roles .
Prostitution, as a consensual act between adults, is arguably within the zone of privacy protected by recent constitutional decisions.
More statements by Justice Ginsberg at National Review here:
http://www.nationalreview.com/benchmemos/065541.asp
eyesofmystery said:As for child porn and pedophilia being legal, I'm honestly not surprised (though I am extremely disgusted) that people are pushing for that, considering that Holland is one of the most "sexually liberated" countries in the world. And people think I'm being unreasonable and bigotted when I say that legalizing gay "marriage" will eventually lead to stuff like this...
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A new analysis of Dutch doctors by researchers in the Netherlands finds that they are more frequently using euthanasia to kill sick children, sometimes taking the country's assisted suicide laws as far as they will allow.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The new study involves the deaths of 64 children during a four month period and finds that doctors hastened the deaths of 42 of them. The government-sponsored study gave the doctors immunity from having their names revealed or being prosecuted for their actions and their responses were kept anonymous.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]According to the Irish Examiner newspaper, the report finds doctors engaged in actions varying from withholding life support from patients doctors believed would die anyway to administering drugs such as morphine with the intent of hurrying a patient's death.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]One case involved euthanasia in the strictest sense -- a doctor making the decision to directly take a patient's life because he believed the patient was beyond hope.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The report describes one case where physicians gave an 18 month old child suffering from a progressive neurodegenerative disease sedatives and drugs after the parents requested them.[/FONT]
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