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Bill: Prostitution ACT of 2140
Details
Submitted by[?]: The Socialist Movement Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: July 2142
Description[?]:
| Prostitution must be eliminated from today's society. By mere recognition from the goverment as "Profession" the goverment endorses prostitution, thus we must eliminate prostitituion, the harmful act of a women selling her body is equal to slavery. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The right for a person to prostitute himself or herself.
Old value:: Prostitution is legal and a recognized profession.
Current: Prostitution is legal and a recognized profession.
Proposed: Prostitution is illegal.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:35:17, November 14, 2005 CET | From |  The Socialist Movement Party | To | Debating the Prostitution ACT of 2140 |
| Message | We have to say, Prostitution is equal to Slavery. a slave is sold. a young poor female who has no money is forced to sell herself for money. Prostitution must be illegal. |
| Date | 05:20:11, November 14, 2005 CET | From | The Socialist Movement Party | To | Debating the Prostitution ACT of 2140 |
| Message | We have to say, Prostitution is equal to Slavery. a slave is sold. a young poor female who has no money is forced to sell herself for money. Prostitution must be illegal. |
| Date | 05:52:07, November 14, 2005 CET | From | Moderate Conservative | To | Debating the Prostitution ACT of 2140 |
| Message | We support this bill. Prostitution is a dangrous and immoral practise. Our government cannot countinue to support it. |
| Date | 06:54:13, November 14, 2005 CET | From | freedom party | To | Debating the Prostitution ACT of 2140 |
| Message | these are the most uninformed comments I have ever heard. Prosititution is equal to slavery?!?! You are comparing a person who is sold to another with no choice and forced to commit backbreaking labor, to someone who legally and willingly decides what they will do with their own body???? A young poor female (or male) for that matter, is not FORCED to become a prostitute... What on earth would make you say that??? As to it being "immoral" that is an opinion, and not for you to decide for other consenting individuals. As for it being dangerous, make it illegal, and see how dangerous it REALLY gets. As with anything, when you make it illegal, it doesnt go away. It goes to the black market, where it becomes much worse. Currently prostitution is regulated. Make it illegal, and all regulations go away. Disease rates will skyrocket and women will REALLY be slaves. Its not hard to document. Look at nations where its legal and where its illegal. Legal nations have safe and regulated industry. Illegal nations have an underground of desperation and abuse. |
| Date | 11:00:28, November 14, 2005 CET | From | Commercial Freedom | To | Debating the Prostitution ACT of 2140 |
| Message | Prostitution isn't the same as slavery, if it were then we could say the same about models and strippers. OOC: Legal prostitution does work, most of Australia has legal prostitution. Only requirments are that they can only operate in registered brothels. Interesting fact: one of our brothels managed to get onto the stock market. |
| Date | 23:17:23, November 14, 2005 CET | From | New Scotialist Alliance | To | Debating the Prostitution ACT of 2140 |
| Message | I oppose |
| Date | 13:58:55, November 15, 2005 CET | From | Liberal Idealist Party | To | Debating the Prostitution ACT of 2140 |
| Message | We oppose. Some people are forced into prostitution as there is no other alternative for income. |
| Date | 22:07:53, November 15, 2005 CET | From | The Socialist Movement Party | To | Debating the Prostitution ACT of 2140 |
| Message | LIP said it perfectly, In slavery you have no choice to be sold or or not... in Prostitution... you have no choice because economic fault forces... we must either ban this act of cruelty or face the dangers of having it around. |
| Date | 22:08:06, November 15, 2005 CET | From | The Socialist Movement Party | To | Debating the Prostitution ACT of 2140 |
| Message | LIP said it perfectly, In slavery you have no choice to be sold or or not... in Prostitution... you have no choice because economic fault forces... we must either ban this act of cruelty or face the dangers of having it around. |
| Date | 00:35:20, November 16, 2005 CET | From | freedom party | To | Debating the Prostitution ACT of 2140 |
| Message | That is operating on a moral fallacy. Under that idea EVERY woman who is poor would be a prostitute. Of course this is not true. This is one of the weakest arguments I have ever heard. The dangers are of banning it. |
| Date | 06:51:24, November 16, 2005 CET | From | freedom party | To | Debating the Prostitution ACT of 2140 |
| Message | and what of women who are "high class" meaning they have very expensive rates? After as little as a year, many of these women have made hundreds of thousands of dollars. But they keep doing it..... Is it because they are slaves, as you claim, or because they are individuals making a choice? A choice that you deem inappropriate. Under the guise of "morals" or being "for their own good" |
| Date | 08:31:25, November 16, 2005 CET | From | Commercial Freedom | To | Debating the Prostitution ACT of 2140 |
| Message | There's no way you can control prostitution...that's why it's a good idea if the government can control it. If it's illegal, it would be worse then ever. We would have illegal prostitutes out on the streets encouraging drug dealers and the likes. However, if we maintained our firm grip on it we would be able to control the places where brothels may be set up and monitor them carefully. We can't monitor something that hides from us. That's why some governments in the world legalize prostitution, it becomes worse without the laws. |
| Date | 04:00:09, November 19, 2005 CET | From | The Socialist Movement Party | To | Debating the Prostitution ACT of 2140 |
| Message | Another Scum we must resist, Prostitution is a scum placed on the laps of the poor. DISSOLVE THIS ACT AGAINST FEMALES OF OUR NATIONS. We once again reitrate our support for the abolition of Prostitution. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 177 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 177 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 146 |
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