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Bill: Legalizing Prostitution
Details
Submitted by[?]: Freedom 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: August 3773
Description[?]:
| The government has no right to determine what a person can do with their own body. To ilegalize prostitution wont stop it from happening it will only increase rates of abuse aggainst prostitutes. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The right for a person to prostitute himself or herself.
Old value:: Prostitution is illegal.
Current: Prostitution is illegal.
Proposed: Prostitution is legal but not recognized under government employment regulation policy.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:26:59, December 14, 2014 CET | From | Solentias People Party | To | Debating the Legalizing Prostitution |
| Message | So FP thinks that the female body should be able to be traded and sold? That doesn't surprise me, capitalists usually see people as resources rather than human beeings. Prostitution is rarly by choice. |
| Date | 13:56:26, December 14, 2014 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Legalizing Prostitution |
| Message | "it's rarely a choice", of course it is a choice, maybe one that's done when the woman has no money, but it's still a choice. If a woman is being forced to it, well than its sex slavery and that's not the point this bill wants to legalize. When women have no money and become prostitutes the solution is not to arrest them, it's to give them better opportunities, which the SPP will say the government should take care of that and we the FP will say the free market will take care of that, but there's no reasonable argument that makes the state not legalize prostitution, unless the government is trying to control people's body. |
| Date | 15:22:51, December 14, 2014 CET | From | Solentias People Party | To | Debating the Legalizing Prostitution |
| Message | It's not a free chioce, it's a forced chioce. No-one should ever have to be in a position that prostitution is the only way to stay alive. Do something about the virus, don't legalize it's symptoms. |
| Date | 15:39:16, December 14, 2014 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Legalizing Prostitution |
| Message | So the do something about the virus is to arrest prostitutes? The FP is not understanding the SPP logic, so the Party is saying that prostitutes are forced into prostitution most of the times because they are poor, so to help them we are going to arrest them? The FP does not see how this can be a benefit to society. |
| Date | 15:54:34, December 14, 2014 CET | From | Chann National Party (CNP) | To | Debating the Legalizing Prostitution |
| Message | The SPP only views the issue from a management/worker situation. Making prostitution ILLEGAL is what drives the black market of prostitution. Making it illegal only pulls curtain around the issue so that we can not see WHO is exploited. Making it illegal does not FIX the problem, it compounds it. If we legalize it we can begin to regulate it. Although this does not contain provisions for employment regulation, it is the step toward the right direction. Furthermore, how does the SPP support abortion and not this? We believe it is the right of a woman to have control over her body and we believe allowing prostitution doesn't necessarily entail what the SPP thinks it entails. Take for instance Marijauna. Legalizing it has allowed LEGITIMATE and law abiding business to open up. Allowing law abiding options will eat away at the illegal options available. All in all, a women should have rights to all the parts of her body, not just abortion rights. She must have all of her reproductive rights, not just some of them. |
| Date | 15:56:31, December 14, 2014 CET | From | Solentias People Party | To | Debating the Legalizing Prostitution |
| Message | No, we say that we should help them before they turn to prostitution. Also just because someone does something that is considered illegal doesn't mean they get thrown into prison, take drug adicts for instance, they get sent to rehabilitation centers. |
| Date | 21:13:58, December 14, 2014 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Legalizing Prostitution |
| Message | But drug addicts are put into rehabilitation centers because they need a cure for their addiction. The least that would happen is a prostitute pay a fine, which is bad when you don't have a lot of money, and ilegalizing prostitution won't stop prostitution, take the war on drugs as an example, and yes, ilegalizing prostitution is to restrict the right of women over their own bodies. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 95 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 130 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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