Legalise prostitution & abortion will treat the root?
No doubt decision of some country in legalised prostitution and abortion had result in positive impact of the population health. Incidence of HIV infection, STD, maternity mortality, unsafe abortion decreased successfully. Hence, someone pronounce it as Public Health success. Yet, I choose to define health in a holistic way, an appropriate Public Health view. WHO says that health is well-being of physical, mental and society, Hippocrates even mentioned that health include the optimum state of spiritual. By legalised these ethical debating issue, it merely cope with the tip of the physical health problem ice berg, not the root, and not to even mention the ice berg of mental, society and spiritual. In apparent, they won the war, but it's a total defeat I would say. Things would be different if they intervene much earlier, and maybe they do not have to give in. We need to keep to evaluating the circumstance by predicting the possible negative outcome and be quick enough to deal w...