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Bill: Decriminalization of Prostitution
Details
Status[?]: passed
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: February 2050
Description[?]:
| A bill that decriminalizes prostution Articles: I. Prostitution is not a crime. II. Soliciting is illegal in public places. III. Living of the proceeds of prostitution of another is illegal IV. The provision of safe houses. V. All fines are ring-fenced to pay for better health and education facilities for those engaged in prostitution. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The right for a person to prostitute himself or herself.
Old value:: Prostitution is legal but not recognized under government employment regulation policy.
Current: Prostitution is legal and a recognized profession.
Proposed: Prostitution is legal but not recognized under government employment regulation policy.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:14:10, May 08, 2005 CET | From | MLTP (The Resistance) | To | Debating the Decriminalization of Prostitution |
| Message | The M-L-T Party Supports this bill, especially the fact that it provides for the regulation and protection of prostitution. Perhaps the bill should specify how this would be done? |
| Date | 04:49:52, May 08, 2005 CET | From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Decriminalization of Prostitution |
| Message | The CNT/AFL welcomes suggestions as to how regulation and protection would be done from the other parties. Our plan would be to ensure safe, hygenic and clean working conditions for prostitutes are always present. Protection of prostitutes would be an integral part of the bill. Right now, prostitutes are incredibly vulnerable to both pimps and clients, we must amend the law to allow them some protection. |
| Date | 13:04:51, May 08, 2005 CET | From |  National People's Gang | To | Debating the Decriminalization of Prostitution |
| Message | Unfortunately, this is a flawed bill. We'd urge its withdrawal and replacement with a bill which achieves the goals of this proposal more accurately. Legalised prostitution forces more women into it. If it is legal, then women cannot refuse employment as prostitutes. A better proposal is to decriminalise prostitution. The state does not recognise it as legitimate employment, neither does it harrass those who are victims of it. By taxing prostitution, the government becomes ethically corrupt in that it is engaged a process which effectively gives one form of rape an economic definition. |
| Date | 17:18:29, May 08, 2005 CET | From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Decriminalization of Prostitution |
| Message | By staying out of prostitution, the state will only act as an idle bystander while prostitutes are abused. The taxation proposed is merely the income tax every earner pays, we are not suggesting implementing 'sin taxes'. We welcome more input from the other parties. |
| Date | 19:53:28, May 08, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Decriminalization of Prostitution |
| Message | There is no reason for prostitution to remain illegal. As between legalization and decriminalization, we tend to favour decriminalization as involving the least government interference. |
| Date | 21:34:18, May 08, 2005 CET | From | National People's Gang | To | Debating the Decriminalization of Prostitution |
| Message | The government is not an idle bystander to the abuse of prostitutes simply because it doesn't legitimise it. There are lots of other options. Anyway, here's a scenario: A girl of 16 can't get a job in a factory, in a shop, in an office, on a farm, in the wilderness, because the economy is in a slump. So they say to her at the job agency: "Aha! There's an opening at the corner of Bleaker Street. You can go be a hooker." "But I don't want to sell my body," says Lula, "I'm studying theology at night classes and aim to become a priest." "Oh so you're turning down legitimate employment huh? Well we'll just have to take you off the Special Support List the government's issued during this crisis. Let's see how hungry you get before you're prepared to obey the law." |
| Date | 22:55:11, May 08, 2005 CET | From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Decriminalization of Prostitution |
| Message | Okay, how about a compromise? It is a recognized profession, but it is discouraged, and you cannot be turned away from welfare if you refuse to be a prostitute. We would be ok with decriminalization, but we feel that the chance of abuse is still there, and safety and hygene will not improve unless it is regulated. |
| Date | 23:39:01, May 08, 2005 CET | From | National People's Gang | To | Debating the Decriminalization of Prostitution |
| Message | This is the problem with regulated: How many prostitutes is too many? How many is not enough? The proposal would be better changed to "Prostitution is legal but not recognized under government employment regulation policy". You could add further options: 1. Soliciting is illegal 2. Living of the proceeds of prostitution of another is illegal 3. The provision of safe houses. 4. All fines are ring-fenced to pay for better health and education facilities for those engaged in prostitution. |
| Date | 09:03:28, May 09, 2005 CET | From | National People's Gang | To | Debating the Decriminalization of Prostitution |
| Message | Given the changes proposed by the CNT/AFL we are now wholly supportive of this bill. |
| Date | 12:03:19, May 09, 2005 CET | From | Chorus of Amyst | To | Debating the Decriminalization of Prostitution |
| Message | Supported by the Council. |
| Date | 13:37:37, May 09, 2005 CET | From | National People's Gang | To | Debating the Decriminalization of Prostitution |
| Message | We'd also like to suggest renaming the bill: "Decriminalisation of prostitution". |
| Date | 15:25:55, May 09, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Decriminalization of Prostitution |
| Message | The CCF will support this bill. But what does "ring-fencing" mean? |
| Date | 19:27:52, May 09, 2005 CET | From | National People's Gang | To | Debating the Decriminalization of Prostitution |
| Message | It means the money cannot be spent on anything else. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 88 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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