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Bill: Bodily Self-Determination
Details
Submitted by[?]: Telamon Social Democratic 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: October 2164
Description[?]:
| The current policy of maintaining prostitution illegal contradicts citizens rights to bodily self-determination. While it is based on commendable goals of protecting women from exploitation the result is an increased marginalisation of prostitutes in a society. Consequently, the very group that we try to protect is adversely affected by our concrete policy. While upholding moral values is commendable, to do so to the effect of increasing human suffering is decidedly less so. To allow the state to protect prostitutes from the hazards of their profession, including violence, sexually transmitted diseases, exploitation by criminal groups or individuals and marginalisation from the local community and the society at large, prostitution should made legal but regulated. This would allow increased crackdown on the ill effects of prostitution while guaranteeing prostitutes rights to bodily self-determination and full participation in the functions of society. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The right for a person to prostitute himself or herself.
Old value:: Prostitution is illegal.
Current: Prostitution regulation decisions are left up to local governments.
Proposed: Prostitution is legal and a recognized profession.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:31:08, December 30, 2005 CET | From | Rationalist Party | To | Debating the Bodily Self-Determination |
| Message | This has never worked in the past, why should it work in Telamon? |
| Date | 16:19:14, December 30, 2005 CET | From | Telamon Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Bodily Self-Determination |
| Message | Can you point to any successes of the illegalisation policy? The failure of the illegalisation policy has manifested itself in all countries that have used it. We must bear in mind that prostitution has been more or less illegal in many western countries for better part of the twentieth century. Can you point to any significant successes that have been achieved in reducing the amount of prostitution while safeguarding the rights of prostitutes? In countries where the logical next step to having prostitution banned (ie. criminalisation of paing for sex altogether to reduce demand for sexual services), such as Sweden, the prostitution has gone deeper under surface and criminals have strenghtened their grip on the business. This naturally has a detrimental effect to the safety and wellbeing of the prostitutes themselves. And of course it is simply a question of a right to self-determination. By criminalising prostitution we impose strict limits to a persons right to determine how they use their bodies. Naturally all abuse of prostitutes has to be criminalised, and naturally it remains so as all actions regarding a prostitutes body that violate his/her right to determine the actions of his/her body are punishable as they are violent crimes. Merely paing for a service does not logically constitute an infringement of the right to bodily self-determination as that would mean that all bodily activities for which one receives financial compensation (ie. all work) would constitute an infringement of the right to bodily self-determination. |
| Date | 23:30:26, December 30, 2005 CET | From | Telamon National Party | To | Debating the Bodily Self-Determination |
| Message | TNP will maintain its policy of voting against this. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 243 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 12 |
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