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We allow all kinds of activities to go on in "public places." People get up and make speeches, pass out leaflets, hold art exhibits, play musical instruments, etc. Why not allow those nice "sex workers" to ply their trade, hmm? They're not "harming anybody, and "everyone can do whatever they want, as long as they don't hurt anyone." Everyone knows prostitution is a victimless crime, just like gambling or getting drunk, right?

It is. I don't see why my tax dollars should be wasted on cracking down on prostitution. Legalize it, and tax it. But it should be restricted to certain areas.

Oh, now you admit that rights are limited by the rights of other people?

The lack of communication between your neurons is staggering. In fact, I have always argued that people only have the right to do things that don't harm other people.

Then the right of a woman to "choose" abortion is null because she is depriving another human being of the paramount right, the right to life.

Perhaps. It depends on the question where life begins.

As for historic precedents, try the Soviet Union. Abortion was a "right," and officially encouraged. That's about the only right anyone had over there. Then there's modern Europe, which is following the logical progression from abortion/infanticide, to euthanasia of the old, to assisted suicide for the mentally ill, etc.

You haven't answered my question. The fact that the Soviet Union allowed abortion, in itself, does not mean that legal abortion necessarily means that euthanasia and assisted suicide were going to be allowed. Europe alone isn't enough, you need two other precedents.