News Jan 17, 2013 at 9:15 am

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1
Kudos to School Resource Officer Radford.

Still, how the hell does it require a tip and outstanding warrants to question random 25-year-olds, wandering around in our schools?
2
Ok. Anti-abortion republican douch may have said it, but I would agree that a woman's choice to have sex for free or pay, and her choice to be pregnant or not, are similar. Her body, her choice. Human rights in my book.
3
NRA tactics are easy to understand, and are smart. gin up feat and resentment to build up your minority of intense supporters, membership, donations, and clout. wed those yahoo tools, to corporate interests, this time, bushmaster manufacturers. same play boook that is always used by the right. how many centuries will it take for the left to understand, no, they aren't playing a "rational" game, they are using emotions to gain toolish adherents, to gain power to fuel their pockets books out of pure greed?

oh maybe you thought like obama we could have responsible bipartisan debate or something, or the car just drove into the ditch, by some kind of accident.
4
The Republican has a point, and trying to hide behind the illegality of prostitution is silly. The ACLU and others fought to make abortion legal under the slogan "my body my choice." If they really believe that, then they should support legalizing consensual prostitution, death with dignity, recreational drug use, and a host of other bodily autonomy issues.
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Baffled by @4: are you trolling? A quick search shows them backing most of those positions. Seems like coherent thought and actions.

However, opposition isn't: conflating pursuing a generally legal activity (abortion) with a generally illegal one (prostitution) is simply trying to poison the well.
6
Both abortion and prostitution should be legal
7
Why is prostitution illegal? I've never understood that.
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@7,
Long answer:
Because married hausfraus who dislike sex with their husbands are afraid if prostitution is legalized, their husbands will go fuck the prostitutes more often than they already do.

Short answer:
Because Jesus.
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@5: If they support them, then say "Yes, we support this." Yes, prostitution is illegal. Whether one is legal and the other isn't is completely irrelevant and misses the purpose behind Rep. Mendive's question, which was to try to discredit the bodily autonomy argument; if "bodily autonomy" can be used to support prostitution and drug use, then it must be flawed, because those are obviously bad things that should never ever be legal, right? By whining about the question instead of challenging the idea behind it, the ACLU conceded the point to him.

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