If it was about the baby....there would be social programs to take care of the baby

[freedom fighter jh]

40. Agree: The burqa should not be immune from debate.

So let's debate it.

For both sexes, there is a minimum to the clothing you can wear, for reasons of decency. That doesn't apply to a maximum.

I'm not trying to say anyone *should* wear a burqa. I wouldn't be caught dead in one myself. But why should it be illegal if someone wants to wear it?

And why would anyone want to wear it? Maybe a woman was raised that way and she is too old to feel comfortable with anything else. Why should change be forced upon her? My grandmother came from a time and place in which women didn't wear pants. She was fine with me wearing pants, and she used to buy pants for my mother, but I never saw her wear pants herself. She simply chose not to change, even though many women her age did change. Her choice.

Think of an old woman who was raised to wear a burqa and always wore one in public. Then maybe her country gets liberated or maybe she comes to the United States. What's the better message to send her: "You better not go out with that burqa on; you could be arrested for wearing it" or "Ya know, you don't have to wear that thing anymore if you don't want to"?

People object to the burqa because so much misogyny often goes along with it. Outlawing the burqa won't make that misogyny go away.